Have to agree. How is this not the short-term thinking?

The EU and Russia now have real differences and it seems like the region needs a greater degree of stability. So, Russia, pragmatically, signals the importance of maintaining a basic relationship of mutual recipriocity. I guess one definition of a relationship must be some mutual need or benefit.

Rather than seeking to maintain this foundation of understanding or symbiosis, the unelected superfluous vector to individual national interests opts to show a manner of facetious indifference to geography and alludes to cutting a deal with an increasingly unaligned and remote tie. Commonsense to seek out trust and stability might test the waters by gradually changing its market orientation, but I guess this would require some diplomacy.

If the rationale for her vaceous poker-face politics is, 'we don't trade with bad countries', I think it'd be wise for any remaining national opposition to voice their lack of confidence in her before she further isolates the EU from wider political discourse, and hastens the EU's economic irrelevance and political downfall.