Russia’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement today reacting angrily to the latest round of US sanctions against them, saying they believe the move is simply spite because the situation in the Ukraine hasn’t unfolded as the Obama Administration had hoped.
The statement insisted it was “groundless” to blame Russia for the Ukrainian conflict, particularly with Russia pushing hard for an end to the ongoing civil war.
The US has been pretty straightforward about that being exactly what they are doing, and on a daily basis the State Department refers to the Ukrainian war as a “Russian invasion.” The most recent sanctions are aiming to target Russian arms exporters, particularly.
Russian officials are warning about retaliatory sanctions, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev also warned that Russia could respond to the “hostile” action with increased military spending.
Didn´t I just learn that Russia has become the number one arms exporter in the world? If this is true (and even if it weren´t true), and if the sanctions are directed toward Russian arms dealers, then the sanctions are an obvious display of American Free Trade in action, new sanctions to kill the competition.
The "double speak" of Obama and the EU is so blatant that no one can believe a word coming from their mouths.
Not a word about the Isreali's committing genocide in Gaza but lots to say about Russia's "alledged" support for freedom fighters in Ukraine.
Wake Up World!!!
It's a pretty sad commentary on the state of American politics when the Communist Party of the US is up in arms about Israeli war crimes in Gaza being committed with US-made and US-supplied weapons and all the government can do is mouth off about the Russians maybe having something to do with an airliner being shot down over a war zone. Complete lack of a cohesive foreign policy, and a complete lack of common sense and decency.