belajar lagi ya <| sep |> I don ' t know how you think Russian sanctions are damaging the West , Trade . The Russian market is a pretty big one to lose for many European countries , including my own . The sanctions on Russia are having a pretty nasty impact on the French and Dutch GDP , for instance . but however that is , it ' s worse for the West to live under threat of invasion by an authoritarian who has driven his nucleararmed country into the ground during the past 16 years . Are you sure Russia doesn ' t perceive the threat in the other direction ? US military forces have been creeping ever closerqimgc 7 c 785 f 7 feeaa 3 e 923 d 9002 a 74391 d 0 dc for a while now and I know cause and effect are interchangeable in longstanding conflicts like this one , but keep in mind that that works both ways . The West feels threatened because Russia responds to feeling threatened because the West responded to feeling threatened because . ad nauseam . I refuse to believe that either the Russian government or the US one are fundamentally evil . But that does mean that both of them are to blame for the tensions between them , not just Russia . The West and the US in particular just tends to get away with more .