Posted on 12/29/2016 12:00:08 PM PST by heterosupremacist
The United States expelled 35 Russian diplomats and closed two Russian compounds in New York and Maryland in response to a campaign of harassment against American diplomats in Moscow, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.
The move against the diplomats from the Russian embassy in Washington and consulate in San Francisco is part of a series of actions announced on Thursday to punish Russia for a campaign of intimidation of American diplomats in Moscow and interference in the U.S. election.
The Obama administration was also announcing on Thursday a series of retaliatory measures against Russia for hacking into U.S. political institutions and individuals and leaking information to help President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, two U.S. officials said.
Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has called for better relations with Russia. It was not clear if he will be able to immediately overturn the measures announced on Thursday.
The Russian diplomats would have 72 hours to leave the United States, the official said. Access to the two compounds, which are used by Russian officials for intelligence gathering, will be denied to all Russian officials as of noon on Friday, the senior U.S. official added.
"These actions were taken to respond to Russian harassment of American diplomats and actions by the diplomats that we have assessed to be not consistent with diplomatic practice," the official said.
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Me, too. I was among the hardest of the ant-communist hard liners. Of course, Obola being an anti-American Islamo-communist, it’s easy to see why Vlad doesn’t look so bad here.
Well, wait a minute . .
Was it over diplomatic misconduct?
Or the “alleged ‘election’” hacks?
On the latter, SHOW US PROOF of STFU
And even if so, I thought it was the “Content” that mattered, not the color of Russian skin
Trump should twitter Putin to put them on paid vacation because they will be invited back after 20 Jan. Burn.
Why would we want Russian spies here? Brilliant idea you have there.
The entire U.S. Military complex should be immediately withdrawn from control of this insane POS. Let him stomphis feet, scream, etc....but no military for him.
As a child of the Cold War, I find it very strange indeed that I am given to believing the “Soviet” side of an argument rather than that of “my” president.
Then you need to learn to multi task. Both the kenyan and the KGB filth running Russia are bad news.
O’Beezlebub stabs Israel in the back, gets kicked out of the Syria negotiations, and so President Selfie-Stick has a temper tantrum, and pushes the world toward WWIII.
But they tell us Trump is the unstable one.
“It was not clear if he will be able to immediately overturn the measures announced on Thursday.”
Yeah, it is absolutely clear that he can. Since Obama cannot legislate anything, whatever he does can be reversed instantly when Trump takes office.
It takes 4 minutes to launch nuclear weapons according to Pickles the harridan.
In one of those debates, she was insistent about launch orders being obeyed.
I doubt it would bother the uniparty with some glowing ruins to get the survivors back in line.
0bama doing anything and everything he can to sour all relations with all countries before leaving office
el-douchebag needs to be ousted asap (and then investigations / arrests / charges / imprisonment)
Me, too. I was among the hardest of the ant-communist hard liners. Of course, Obola being an anti-American Islamo-communist, it’s easy to see why Vlad doesn’t look so bad here.
So what exactly did they hack? They had a Secretary of State who kept servers in her bathroom...do they mean hacked those?
I agree. They took the “launch button” away from Nixon. They could do the same (and should do the same) with Olameass.
Unlike our current idiot in the white hut, Putin is no idiot and knows whats going on with odickheads last minute rash of senseless and quickly reversable executive orders.
I’m not a betting man but I’d put eveything I have on the line and bet that Putin will not do anything rash and is probably biding his time like we all are waiting for the adults to be back in charge.
Surely Putin knows giving Oidiot a reason to instigate martial law would only prolong things.
OK - With no evidence to prove they hacked and influenced the election, but because we punished them, then they must be guilty, therefore that is why Hillary lost.
Liberal logic used to cement this reason for the outcome of the election in people’s heads and CNN will run with it. The election can never be about Obama policies be the reason they lost as his vision is “correct” as he said to Axlerod.
This guy is delusional and dangerous here in the the last 3 weeks.
This whole issue is BS cooked up by Odumbo to try to save face over getting his ass kicked in the election, and THE WORLD knows it. This action by the US is about as effective as a fart in a hurricane. The Russians will now kick a bunch Odumbo Americans out of Russia and everybody will go back to sleep. REDICULOUS
Obama is livid the peace talks in Syria are taking place without the US.
He’s made a hash of everything and now our relations with the rest of the world are a mess.
I’m not thinking he will either.
If it was Hillary on the way....I would be heading for Tristan da Cunha.
Putin will let this play out for the next three weeks until our clown prince is no longer relevant -- and is no longer in a position to play with men.
More and more it seems Obama is taking orders from Riyadeh. This is the only explanation I can figure out— it is a symbolic gesture but shows the Muslim masses who is currently in charge (not Obama)— and that is good enough, for now, for whichever Muslim is in charge. Ugh.
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