Over the weekend, House members were very clear that they believed deals had been reached on a final version of the Russia sanctions bill, and that it would include Iran and North Korea sanctions. The White House even appears resigned to signing the bill.
Apparently nobody talked to the Senate, however, as Sen. Bob Corker (R – TN) today insisted that there was still “a snag” on the Senate version, and that there’s no timetable on resolving the continued differences on the bill.
There were splits on several issues when the bill started gaining momentum, with the expectation that the addition of North Korea and Iran sanctions would make the deal palatable to Republicans who didn’t want to limit President Trump’s ability to lift sanctions unilaterally.
Some of this was about the possibility of Trump vetoing the bill and then facing an embarrassing override vote. With the White House saying the bill will be signed, the real question now is whether the Senate version will pass.
Sanction that busted ruble,wish it where a super power,corrupt gas station of a country they call Russia.I really have no empathy for a nation that supplies the Taliban in Afghanistan weapons that are being used on the American service men stationed over there.Y you won’t hear about that on this site where America is starting all the wars and we’re the evil empire because Jason Ditz is a Pro-Russian propagandist that hates America so because he’s so biased he won’t write anything about this issue our the Russian funds for this forum might dry up. It’s time to send the Ukrainians I mean 1 good turn deserves another.Jason Ditz instead of being Putin’s bitch how about you report on the stuff there doing around the world to antagonize and in this instance murder our American heroes but,you won’t cause you’re a puppet.USA
It’s time to supply Ukraine with weapons to defend themselves from those broke bastard’s.USA
Ukraine couldn’t defend itself from pussy riot..
Why? They would only sell the weapons to ISIS and Al Queda.
And what are American Troops doing in Afghanistan? I’ll tell you what there doing. There protecting the poppy crop.
There looking for your momma…
Brush up on your grammar and punctuation. At least then you will only look stupid because of the content of your comment. My god man, you’re a poster child for blind jingoism.
Awww I hurt that little bitch that acts tough hiding behind his computer that makes those comments because if he ever said anything like that in my face I’d have to react with a bitch slap to his face.If you’re going to comment on grammar and not content get off my nuts u lil coward I mean you “pussy’s are us” USA
I’m not going to get into any tough guy contest since we will never meet but I assure you , you wouldn’t be doing any bitch slapping. I did comment on content. Where do you think I got “blind jingoism”?
I hyper nationalist jagoff constantly cheerleading wars of aggression while sitting safely at home is accusing someone else of acting tough hiding behind their computer? LOL
If you ever grow some nuts I live in Texas and will gladly meet you in San Antonio unlike most of the people on this forum I have no problem backing up the stuff I say Understand”Trolls are us” I support the Brave Americans fighting for my freedom I know it’s not free.USA
That explains a lot. I hope you are joking, however, as even in Texas some of the people are sane.
What goes around, comes around! Bin Laden (terrorist) was our wonderful freedom fighter when the shoe was on the other foot, e.g., Russian military forces in Afghanistan and we supporting the “terrorists”.
You are following the usual MSM babble Russophobia. It is the USA which is the greedy exporter of violence and help to terrorits, Israel and the Saudis included. Look again at Russia with fresh eyes.
Why would I look at Russia any other way? They’re arming the Taliban do you support the Taliban? They’re using those weapons on America servicemen.They’re supporting terrorists. In my opinion we need to get out of there but,as long as we are I support my side against the evil Taliban barbarian bastard’s.USA
The “ideas” that you’re spouting here are so utterly irrational and imbecilic that it ALMOST seems to me that you’re just playing a game, the goal of which is to demonstrate the insanity of the ultra-right warmongering policies that the entirety of the US ruling class endorses.
I wrote “ALMOST” because, hated though they are, the Democratic and Republican war criminals who run the US government do have some supporters in the population at large; besides the multi-millionaires and billionaires who constitute the real constituency of these two parties, there is a privileged upper middle-class layer (maybe the top 10% of the income and wealth distribution) whose members see their own interests (stock portfolios, first and foremost) as being bound up with Washington’s campaign to violently exercise its hegemony over the entire planet.
The members of the “upper middle-class cheering section for imperialism” are, by and large, mediocrities at best, though they do understand that the brutal rape of other countries (the theft of their resources) is consistent with the fattening of their already swollen investment portfolios.
In other words, you’re a well-off idiot. Go fu..k off and die.
You seem to forget that the US armed the Taliban against the Russians in the 1980s. That’s how this shit got started in the first place.
No it was the Mujahedeen watch “Soldiers of God” documentary.I swear Mr.Knapp it’s crazy how history is repeating itself.We’re in a new cold war with Russia at a time when China is surfacing as a world power in it’s own right.The middle East is still as crazy as ever Israel and Palestine are still at conflict,Venezuela is on the verge of revolution,China and India threating to go to war again,North Korea still launching missiles.How history repeats itself.USA
Eagle,
As a Marine in the ’80s and ’90s, I am reasonably well-acquainted with the Mujahadeen. In fact, I used to own some handicrafts supposedly made by their women (a nice rug with burning BMPs and BRDMs hand-woven into the fabric, and a set of hammered silver and lapis jewelry I bought for my then-wife, profits accruing to the purchase of arms and supplies to kick the Russians’ asses out of there). I had a friend who decided to walk from Peshawar to Kabul to try and find/join them. He lived, but I’m under the impression it didn’t work out quite as he had hoped.
You’re right: History keeps repeating itself. That corresponds to the definition of insanity (doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results), but only coincidentally. This isn’t insanity. It’s a treadmill. Since World War II ended, the primary purpose of the US government has been to transfer wealth from your pockets to the bank accounts of the military industrial complex. Doing stupid belligerent interventionist horseshit around the world provides the excuse for that.
Throw their bodies to the front line of battle & see how tough they really are.
Aw, c’m’on, Corder. Do it, already. Go ahead and sanction Germany for buying gas from Gazprom, ’cause we all want to see NATO go poof!
Jack Crabb: General, you go down there.
General Custer: You’re advising me to go into the Coulee?
Jack Crabb: Yes sir.
So you are now so so concerned with the Russian people? You sound just like Hitler so concerned with the German people in Czechoslovakia. You want history – pay attention to the speech with “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all” from Jefferson, or the “She Goes Not Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy” from John Q Adams. More recently, study Eisenhower’s “military industrial complex” speech.