Copyrighted Image? DMCA | It's long overdue but better late than never that Europe might just be back-pedalling on America's aggressive agenda towards Russia. The business-like visit to Moscow this week by Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier suggests that Europe can come to its senses to seek a diplomatic resolution of the escalating tensions over the Ukraine crisis -- tensions that could spark a wider continental war, or worse. Steinmeier met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in which the pair stressed the need to find a political end to the violence in Ukraine. The German diplomat -- the first high-level European envoy to Moscow in several months -- also talked about normalizing relations between his country and Russia and of finding a way to rescind the economic sanctions that Brussels has imposed on Moscow over recent months. |