As Europe, and especially Germany, ponder how they will survive if their imports of Russian natural gas and oil are cut off, the British government of Boris Johnson went into high gear to whip everyone back in line on the suicidal sanactions policy. BoJo told his cabinet yesterday, according to his spokesman, that pressure on Putin “must be increased both through further economic measures and providing military aid to ensure Russia changes course completely.” Earlier, his Foreign Secretary Liz Truss had told the Sunday Telegraph of March 27, that sanctions “should only come off with a full ceasefire and withdrawal, but also commitments that there will be no further aggression.”
U.S. President Joe Biden followed in the British footsteps, and placed a round of calls on March 29 to his British (Johnson), French (Macron), German (Scholz) and Italian (Draghi) fellow heads of state and government. He told them each how important it was to maintain unity against Russia at this time. And he informed the media afterward that they all agreed to have a wait-and-see approach to Russia’s announcements of troop withdrawals from around Kyiv: “We’ll see if they follow through what they’re suggesting,” Biden stated, emphasizing that there was a “consensus” among the leaders to “let’s just see what they have to offer. We’ll find out what they do.”
