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Well since Russia is now the USA's largest external supplier of oil [1], perhaps they can get the ball rolling? No need to whine at the Germans.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-24/russia-oi...

Who again is spineless?

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Your own article says Russia is the third-largest supplier.

Look at the red line at the end of the time series.

Yes, the graph shows it surpassed Saudi Arabia ... into third place, as the article said.

The US imports many times more from Canada.

I don't think the USA is particularly reliant on any external supplies of oil these days, whereas the same cannot be said for Europe and gas.

Then surely it makes it even easier for the USA to decline said Russian oil?

Come, show those Germans what decisive, principled action looks like.

> perhaps they can get the ball rolling?

A European plane with European passengers was downed. No Americans. Putin would not have signed off on a similar operation with an American plane.

U.S. geopolitical focus is presently in the Pacific. Getting sidetracked with whatever is going on between Berlin and Moscow doesn’t serve our interests.

How will the US make up for that oil? Not through internal drilling and extraction as the environmental wing of the party in power would never allow it. Closer ties to Middle Eastern states that have their own terrible human rights abuses?

Europe has consistently been a bigger trading partner with Russia: https://oec.world/en/profile/country/rus?subnatTradeValueSel...

And can't Germany do anything right without US holding their hand? But to be fair yes, Biden is equally pathetic and sad for gladhanding with Russia.

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