carrot - quick, now the stick...
How to keep your adversary off-balance en-route to owning him.
Agreed. Also, Trump’s statement was:
Invite Russia back to the G-8. By the way, blame Obama for Crimea. Wouldn’t have happened under me. Invite Russia back.
Also Germany and France are the ones who are doing the most business with Putin’s government with *massive* energy/gas deals (instead of making such deals with our companies) so it’s rather ridiculous they are trying to come off as holding moral high ground.