Top White House adviser Gary Cohn today insisted that President Trump no longer intends to make any efforts to roll back US sanctions against Russia, and that “if anything, we would probably look to get tougher on Russia” in the future.
The Trump Administration has struggled with consistency on its Russia policy, as Trump campaigned very openly on diplomatic rapprochement in 2016, with expectations of rolling back the excesses of Obama’s sanctions. After the election he started talking about wanting some sort of concessions, though these too were eventually abandoned.
Facing political opposition to any improved relationship with Russia, Cohn’s comments are in keeping with other recent reports out of the administration, which vowed to keep the sanctions in place unless Russia gave up Crimea, and made other major moves they clearly would not have any intention of making.
The sanctions, then, are a permanent thing now, and the only question is how much worse are they going to get in the future, as the Trump Administration settles into the comfortable, political mainstream of retain hostility toward Russia as a centerpiece of American foreign policy.
Hell, we have yet to roll back the Soviet era sanctions.. Somehow, I don’t think the Russians were expecting any great change from Uncle Sap, anyway.
What doesn’t kill Russia, will make her stronger.
Who cares. Russia’s economy is growing again.
All previously approved comments to an article concerning Russiagate and Seth Rich in my local paper the Star Tribune were erased after being previously allowed and posted by the moderator. While I have had many comments blocked through the years of posting comments at the Star Trib., I have never observed previously approved comments that were scrubbed with a notation that read “this comment has been removed”.
While the alternative media is ablaze with new evidence in the Seth Rich murder investigation the corporate media is desperately attempting to crush any peep of the Seth Rich murder case.
Reading the official American press is a waste of time. By this point, we know its controlled and censored. We know it often outright lies. Comey said not long before being kicked out that all American press will pre-clear stories with the FBI. He said it as part of an explanation of why Wikileaks was so dangerous (to him). He didn’t like the fact that Wikileaks would never pre-clear their stories with the FBI.
So, save your money on buying that local paper. And it will have two added advantages. You won’t have their lies and mis-direction in your head. You’ll thus actually be better informed. And, if everyone did this, they’d go out of business.
“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed and if you read it you are misinformed”–Samuel Clemens
Isn’t that where Winston Smith works?
Sober up,
Gary Cohn is probably a neocon.
The Breitbart crowd is mad as heck at Cohn.
The joke is that Russia doesn’t want the sanctions rolled back. At least not enough to ask for it.
All of this has made the Russian economy stronger. They had to adapt and adjust. But Russia is a big country, so they’ve generally been able to find what they need and adapt to using that. Now the Russian economy is stronger. The Russian economy gets robbed by western corporations less now than before. Western banks now have less influence in Russia. Russia is now less reliant on imported materials or goods.
Actually, the same thing happened once in the States. England, then the mighty imperial empire that wanted to boss everyone around, tried to use economic warfare against the recalcitrant American colonies. They didn’t call it sanctions back then, but it was much the same thing.
If you ever encounter the word “homespun”, that’s a echo of those times. Instead of buying expensive textiles from the English mills, it became fashionable and popular in America to wear locally produced “homespun” fabrics. And we all know how that story ended.
“History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes”–Samuel Clemens
Yet trump’s promise of improved relations with Russia got him elected. trump is playing three dimensional checkers. It can’t be easy for Melania to be a cum bucket for an obese psychopathic walrus. They have released some of the women held in the elite’s underground cities but they have been so programmed that they cannot re-enter society. They are being snapped up by billionaires for their Stepford wife qualities.
the orange clown is a filthy serial liar, and has no intention of getting along with russia, he has lied about everything, and needs to be impeached and say good riddance of this rat……….
Of course he wont he HAS TO look as if he is Anti Russian or else!
So what happens if Russia says to the US no more Russian rocket engines!
Our sanctions are a blessing for Russia. After the Soviet Union collapsed, America decided to help Russia by sending a bunch of political scientists and economists to them to “help them out”. The results were catastrophic – with a giant giveaway of Russia’s assets to neocon crooks, the election of a drunken fool as President and a ruined economy with the crooks eating 5,000 ruble meals in fancy Moscow restaurants while starving children sold themselves sexually in the alleys of Moscow. Vladimir Putin put an end to Russia’s experiment with Western style capitalism, for which Russians are grateful.
I had a friend who visited Russia about the time of Yeltsin; she commented upon the sad sight of old people standing along roads with little stands trying to sell their pots and pans, old clothes, old military medals, etc. just to get enough to eat for that day. We will probably get to see that same sight here in America, thanks to our own neocon budgets that call for more austerity for the many and a bigger share for the 1%ers
Our oligarchs are after the goods, same as theirs. Some of them are the same ones actually.
That is true unfortunately.
If Trump is such a great negotiator, let him make a deal with Putin to end the war in Syria. Assads head in return for sanctions. 30 days. Go.
No. Assad is just an excuse, the zionazis want to achive the full control over Syria, and the Russians will not allow that.
One solution is that Trump actually clean the sionazi swamp, but it is likely that he will be killed beforehand.