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.
USA is on the Hell-bound train to perdition.
What does Mr. Skripal have to say about all this? He has been on all the talk-shows, right? Has a book deal pending?
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could read the headlines one day and not see the word “sanctions” anywhere. Do we ever take a day off from killing and making lives miserable by economic strangulation? Just one FUCKING DAY!
“prove that President Trump is harder on Russia than anyone else has
ever been at any time.” That is deliriously funny. The reason for this belated “hardness” is that no president before Trump has been s*rewed so royally by the Russian Lorelei, named Putin. (1) President Trump may finally be waking up from his slumber party with Putin.
Name one country which is today an absolutely reliable ally of ours. GB? Israel? Saudi Arabia? Japan? Absolutely reliable? That I doubt.
(1) Just one piece of evidence. When Trump became president Turkey was still a fairly loyal NATO member. It no longer is. Erdogan and Putin have become buddies and Erdogan controls our access to the Black Sea.
Good… US banking and export industries need all the restrictions they can get, and Russia needs to be free from debt. It’s almost like they’re sanctioning US banks in order to help the Russians stay independent. Maybe with a few more obnoxious steps like this there will be no more novel financial instruments that no one can understand, and the US will start building things we need ourselves rather than shipping stuff to the far corners of the earth.
This story explains the actual effect of these new sanctions: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-03/u-s-imposes-more-sanctions-on-russia-for-chemical-agent-use
To WHOM does he have to prove that he is tough/tougher/toughest on Russia? Swearing allegiance to Israel and being tough on Russia have become the musts in foreign policy.
As for Skripal case, if one were to write a fictional crime novel using the UK official version of Skripal story, it would be laughed at. From the beginning to the end, the story is ridiculous and absurd. When you really think about it — people spinning such stories must believe that public has a memory of a fruit fly.
“When you really think about it — people spinning such stories must believe that public has a memory of a fruit fly.”
Saaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!
More sanctions over a UK hoax.
its all about the slowing down of Russia and China…..and prevent the fast sinking of the USS Empire.
Except it will only backfire, Jim. That UK hoax was nearly a year ago and was debunked. Issuing more sanctions will hurt the US much more than it’ll hurt Russia.
In fact, Russia has benefited from every sanction that’s been imposed – whether from the US or the UN. Why? Russia has been able to grow its own crops and manufacture more than enough goods for its citizens; therefore, the sanctions were simply a waste of time and money.
I agree Eileen.
Like the bully Pompeo, the US foreign policy is mostly driven by it`s ideology of being exceptional and indispensable, hubris mentality and hegemony over the world.
The recipe for all empires rise and falls.
In the short it looks tuff and macho……in the long run it`s doomed to fail.
When the empire even threatens and sanction it`s friends and allies to get it`s failed policy through……..USS Empire is sinking fast.