Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Chris Van Hollen (D_MD) are pushing a new bill, called the DETER Act, which aims to automatically sanction Russia for any interference in the mid-term elections. The legislation is seen primarily as an attempt to “slap” President Trump after his recent summit with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
Sanctions against the Russians are extremely popular among lawmakers right now, and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says it would be assured to pass if the Republican leadership allows it to come up for a vote.
Interestingly enough, there is some push back, and that might convince the leadership to slow this bill down. A number of American countries are expressing concerns that the new bill could damage their own interests.
A number of important energy companies are facing major financial losses around the Russia sanctions. Resistance to making this even worse, however, is facing pushes from Senate hawks, mostly Democrats, who are going to claim anything short of huge sanctions increases are proof the Republicans are insufficiently hostile to Russia.
I don’t want to sanction Russia . We should be happy Russia is ending the war in Syria So we did not have to stay and fight there for 17 years too . I hope Trump can make friends with Putin .I don’t know what’s wrong with the U.S. congress
The problem is that congress is a bunch of idiots.
Agree on idiots but to my mind, the more serious problem is that congress, almost 100% of members, are bought and paid for by AIPAC and its neo con oligarchs, e.g. browder, adelson,et al. They call it lobbying, campaign contributions, but in reality, bottom line is the money is simply bribes.
That war in Syria was the result of U.S. interference and regime change actions. The U.S. needs to pull out so that Russia can help Syria rebuild after the destruction of that country. The pictures of the bombed out cities of a once beautiful nation are appalling. What goes around comes around. Some day it will the the U.S.’s turn to experience the hell and destruction we have brought to other nations.
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Sanctions on Russia are to punish the people of Russia for standing behind their elected leader, Putin. The U.S. doesn’t want Russia to have a successful economy and a good life for the Russian people. The U.S. wants to grind Russia down to a pulp so the Globalists can swoop in and take the country over as it is rich in natural resources coveted by the Greedy Elite of the world.
Mary Myers, I couldn’t agree with you more, that hellish war in Syria was the result of US interference (under Obama’s tenure as POTUS) and attempted regime change (Assad’s still in power). The US has no choice but to pull out so Russia can help Syria rebuild after its destruction. The photos of the bombed out cities of a once beautiful nation are, indeed, appalling. What goes around comes around (Karma); and someday, it’ll be America’s turn to experience the hell and destruction we’ve brought on other nations.
Sanctions on Russia are simply to punish the Russian people for standing behind their elected leader, Vladimir Putin (these sanctions are, in fact, illegal). The US doesn’t want Russia to have a successful economy (which it does) and a good life for the Russian people; the US simply wants to grind Russia down to a pulp so the Globalists can swoop in and take the country over (good luck with that) as it’s rich in natural resources coveted by the greedy elites of the world.
What the US and these greedy elites fail to see is, Russia’s a decade ahead of the US, both in weapons systems and in military hardware. Its military forces are far ahead of NATO forces in both training and discipline. Why? First of all, they have NO LGBT individuals in their military, as well as NO gang members and other criminals in their ranks. Second, their training’s a decade ahead of that of the US and NATO.
Hopefully we won’t be in Syria for 17 years. But….
“A number of American countries are expressing concerns that the new bill could damage their own interests.
A number of important energy companies are facing major financial losses around the Russia sanctions.”
Who cares what other America countries and energy companies want. What does Israel want is the only question that matters.
McCarthyism is always this way. Overblown fears used for politics always have a real world price, when reality intrudes.
Politicians generally see no downside to demanding no one do business with Russia, little excuse required. Maybe they’ll do more business with us instead. Of course it’s just not that simple, for instance what if we yell “JUMP” and nothing happens?!
Congress does not represent the will of the people. Surveys show that most Americans do not get their needs addressed by their “Reps and Senators”, who obey their donors (bribers) and pass laws to help the rich and corporations. SCOTUS helps this process, and partisan redistricting is just legalized gerymandering.
Blaming Russia is just an excuse. None of the lawmakers complain about the real interference at every level by Israel.