SO Obama closed their compounds and reduced them to 455 staff in retaliation for the fake story they derailed Hillary.
The Russians waited for Trump to undo Obama’s childish act. When it was obvious he couldn’t, they reduced our staff to 455 in Russia.
Now, we are retaliating for their retaliation to Obama’s drama that was based on a lie.
And all this will do is hurt travelers. Tillerson and Trump didn’t have to do this. All they had to do was -nothing-.
The Russians already committed to having the equal amount of diplomats. So not what, they cut us back a little more? Where does this childish crap stop?
The Russians are talking tough and feel compelled to take another step; so they will close another US facility, or kick out specific individuals on the embassy staff or, maybe, cause more trouble elsewhere such as Syria, North Korea, Iran. They have lots of possibilities and the McCain cabal want a shooting war and all of this makes it more possible.