USA thinks it can be the world police and bully any country they want into being their bitches, and for a while, it was like that. But now it's become clear that the other superpowers have started to grow bigger and more independent, to the point that they won't allow the US to bitch them around. But all libbies and neo cons in the government right now still think the us has the same control over the world as it did after the end of the cold war. And so they think they're free to sanction anyone who doesn't allign fully with their views, because it's either you are with us and if you don't it means you are against us, when most countries want to look after themselves rather than a shithole european country being used to launder money.
The US will realise this later rather than sooner, which is a shame for the average civilian.