Militarily it's no longer relevant to US interests. And as far as economics go, well, nothing is changing here. > Re. USA and Russia, it was US, not EU pressin

Militarily it's no longer relevant to US interests. And as far as economics go, well, nothing is changing here. > Re. USA and Russia, it was US, not EU pressing for greater sanctions against Russia Right... that's my entire point. The US is doing this on behalf of Europe based on the idea that there is a Russian threat (there isn't really for core EU nations) and that Europe wants to be defended. Europe doesn't want to be defended and isn't onboard with US actions to "defend" Europe. So why would the US spend any time here? What's to gain? A Europe that doesn't want the US? There's much more important things going on and you can't waste time and resources on this.