Quite the contrary. This is superficial sanity, planting necessary ideas into mass consciousness. You cannot touch China, they are important trading partners, despite facts that chinese intelligence is writing files at US defence contractors at speed of hard drives there. You cannot touch Germany, otherwise this will jeopardise transatlantic treaties. Blame Russia, it cannot do anything, anyway.
> You cannot touch China [...] Blame Russia, it cannot do anything, anyway.
Except, you know, the US government has not only also blamed China for state-sponsored cyberattacks, but actually gone further and indicted specific members of the PLA for those attacks.
Russia can do plenty. Like fuckup the US's overthrow of Assad so they can build their precious nat gas line through Syria that Assad won't allow. Russia put a stop to that. Now it's down to how much blood is the US willing to spill in order to ensure Europe gets free of Russia's natgas hold on them.
No one forces the EU to buy gas from Russia. Besides, the US successfully completed huge liquid gas terminal facility at its EU satellite - Lithuania, so there is an alternative supply since 2014.
