Days after ending his term in
Moscow, former
United States ambassador to
Russia Jon Huntsman has urged
Washington to review its sanctions-dominated approach to Russia, questioning its efficiency and calling for dialogue.
The U.S. has placed multiple layers of
sanctions on Russia, its senior officials and largest companies, as well as businessmen it views as connected to the
Kremlin, the bulk of them linked to Moscow's role in the Ukrainian crisis which began in 2014 and has yet to be resolved.
In a column https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-needs-dialogue-with-moscow-11570488054 for the Wall Street Journal published on Monday, Huntsman argued that "sanctions have become our go-to foreign policy tool to admonish misbehavior" but not all of them are having the desired effect.