The White House has announced that President Trump has imposed a new round of sanctions against Russia on Friday.
The sanctions are nominally about the March 2018 Skripal poisoning in
Britain, which the US has already issued sanctions over.
According to spokesman Hogan Gidley, the new sanctions are being imposed
because of the last round of sanctions. In the previous sanctions the
US demanded Russia offer them assurances that they’d stop poisoning
people.
Russia never made any such assurances, since they denied poisoning
Skripal in the first place. But not admitting guilt and offering the US
promises, the US felt the need to impose another round of sanctions,
which are probably going to set the stage for more future sanctions for
the same reason.
Officials claim Russia is “required” to offer the US assurances about
poisonings under US law, and the White House insists these new sanctions
prove that President Trump is harder on Russia than anyone else has
ever been at any time.
US Imposes New Sanctions on Russia Over March 2018 Skripal Poisoning
New sanctions are to punish Russia for not making promises after last sanctions
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