The US Secretary of State has made a historic announcement: America gives up its policy of promoting democracy and seeking regime change because these efforts mostly backfire and produce the opposite result. Does the White House really think that its foreign policy is a failure? Or is it no more than a shift in rhetoric? The new administration has taken its first hostile action with respect to Russia: for the first time in the past 20 years, the US and the EU have imposed coordinated sanctions on Russia. How can Russia respond? And is a tough response in order?

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