PUSH and PULL, the double-faced strategy dividing the EU from Russia

... This implies at least a bilateral relationship, and when a potentially profitable deal does not take place, which is effectively the purpose of sanctions, then not just one party but ALL the involved parties suffer a loss. On the very same day of Ms. Mogherini's quick dismissal of the matter, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew offered another view of the true extent of the values at stake, which is consistent with Biden's remarks. During an interview at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, he stated: “The economic sanctions that were put in place are probably the most sophisticated sanctions regime that has ever been ...