Despite the recent summit between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the US still seems determined to escalate tensions with Moscow. On Sunday, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the US is preparing to impose new sanctions on Russia.
The new sanctions would be over the alleged poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny, something Moscow denies responsibility for. “We are preparing another package of sanctions to apply in this case,” Sullivan told CNN.
“It will come as soon as we have developed the packages to ensure that we are getting the right targets. And when we do that, we will impose further sanctions with respect to chemical weapons,” he said.
The Biden administration has already imposed sanctions on Russian officials over Navalny and for other reasons. In March, the US, UK, and the EU all hit Russia with Navalny-related sanctions. In April, the US hit Russia with even more sanctions and expelled Russian diplomats over unsubstantiated claims, like the idea Russia was behind the SolarWinds hack.
The Russian ambassador to the US responded to Sullivan’s comments and said more sanctions from the US is not what Moscow expected after the Biden-Putin summit, which appeared to go relatively well.
“This is not a signal we all expected after the summit,” Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov said on Sunday. “I don’t think it is possible to stabilize and normalize relations between countries by means of sanctions. The current task is to normalize dialogue. First of all, we need to restore wrecked dialogue mechanisms.”
Biden and Putin agreed at the summit to return ambassadors to each other’s capital and to hold talks in the future on arms control and cyberattacks. More sanctions from the US would certainly be a bad signal to Moscow and could hinder potential arms control talks or other negotiations that need to be started in good faith.
Oh well, Antonov may not want to unpack his bags.
https://www.indianpunchline.com/fizz-is-gone-from-biden-putin-summit/
Fizz gone from Putin-Biden Summit.
Sanctions might be considered the last “defense” from a dying empire and its currency. Any future meetings and phone exchanges (?) between Anthony Blinken and Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov may include US-imposed sanctions or the threats thereof.
What a classless way to engage on a personal and diplomatic level.
How is anything Russia does with and to a Russian citizen in Russian territory any of our business at all?
Meanwhile of course, we ourselves are hounding an Australian journalist outside the US to imprisonment and an early grave. I guess we claim jurisdiction over the entire world?
exactly……………
Let’s do the math. A Russian citizen is “poisoned by Russia.” He leaves Russia for “life saving treatment.” Then after magically surviving, he decides to return to Russia? Are you kidding? If Russia really “poisoned” him in front of the whole world, why would it not “poison” him again? This does not compute, folks! The only solution to this math problem is that this guy is full of $*it!
Well at leaste Navalny got a trial unlike the Gitmo prisoners who have been held for decades without charge or trial , when it comes o hipocracy americans have no EQUAL.
Yes and No, …Israel. Their foreign policy praxis, gangsterism, is identical. And it’s hard to tell who learned from whom. But it is pretty clear WestExec anyway is a Zionist front.
Oh, but we just released to innocents who has been there, without charges, for 17 years!
So kind, we are………………….
Oh, good, this will be a spoke in the wheel of the pro Atlanticist Quisling brigade in Russia that were cheering the summit as proof that Russia could mend relations with the Imperialist States of Amerikastan after all. Not only are sanctions immensely beneficial for Russia – they substantially improved Russian economic production since 2014 – but sidelining these traitors is a great thing.
This pathetic illegal sanctioning of a nothingburger crim of no interest to anyone is typical of the USA which still keeps Julian Assange locked up in another country for daring to tell the truth about some of the USA’s violent war crimes.
None of our business.
A person has to wonder what Hillary has on Biden. How else could she get her neocon nuts into such important positions with Biden?