Much more concerned about American mistakes. Kerry went around claiming that severe sanctions would be imposed on the Russians. He only succeeded in making the United States appear foolish and powerless. If there were foreign policy professionals advising him, he would have been told that there could be no unified Western sanctions given Germany and the EU’s dependence on Russian oil and gas. The Germans fearing an EU economic downturn, despite Merkel’s schoolmarmish lecturing to Putin, would never agree to effective sanctions. Why make threats or propose policies that cannot or will not be implemented? Kerry should travel less and think more. Jet lagged grandiose rhetoric does not serve American interests.
Are you suggesting that Kerry didn’t pass the “Global Test”?