Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Trump administration to hit Russia with new sanctions for Skripal poisoning
NBC News ^ | Aug.08.2018 | Josh Lederman

Posted on 08/08/2018 1:34:39 PM PDT by McGruff

The Trump administration is hitting Russia with new sanctions punishing President Vladimir Putin's government for using a chemical weapon against an ex-spy in Britain, U.S. officials told NBC News Wednesday.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signed off on a determination that Russia violated international law by poisoning the former spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter in March, officials said, a decision that was announced Wednesday afternoon by State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert.

Although the U.S. joined European countries in publicly blaming Moscow within days of the attack, the Trump administration had never issued the formal determination that triggers automatic sanctions under a decades-old U.S. law on chemical weapons.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Anthrax Scare; Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Germany; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; angelamerkel; brexit; chemicalweapons; election2018; election2020; emmanuelmacron; espionage; europeanunion; finland; france; germany; helsinki; macron; nato; putin; putinsbuttboys; russia; sanctions; sergeiskripal; theresamay; trumpputin; trumprussia; unitedkingdom; wmd
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-66 next last

1 posted on 08/08/2018 1:34:39 PM PDT by McGruff
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: McGruff

hmmmmmmm….why would Trump care about a Russian SPY that got poisoned? I just read this guys name on a thread here......hmmm


2 posted on 08/08/2018 1:36:44 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: McGruff

Yep, he’s only doing this cuz he’s Putin’s puppet...............


3 posted on 08/08/2018 1:39:26 PM PDT by Red Badger (July 2018 - the month the world learns the TRUTH......Q Anon)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: McGruff

Well gee Wally, if you can’t believe British intelligence, who can you believe?


4 posted on 08/08/2018 1:40:10 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

The State Department says it’s true. Why would you question them?


5 posted on 08/08/2018 1:44:02 PM PDT by McGruff
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: McGruff

All I know is whatever the truth of the matter is, it is not in that article.

In Pravda there is no isvestya; in Isvestya there is no Pravda.


6 posted on 08/08/2018 1:44:33 PM PDT by ichabod1 (If there is to be war, let it begin here.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: McGruff

The question is, who has no choice but to deal with Russia and has very little leverage to use when dealing with them. Answer that question and you know who is pushing Trump to do this in order to show they can quietly get the US to do their bidding.


7 posted on 08/08/2018 1:46:20 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: McGruff

How do they know it wasn’t the CIA looking to pin some more stuff on The Rooskies?


8 posted on 08/08/2018 1:47:58 PM PDT by Paladin2 (no spelchek, no problem...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: McGruff

Collusion! /s


9 posted on 08/08/2018 1:50:12 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: McGruff

COLLUSION!!! /screaming liberals


10 posted on 08/08/2018 1:50:18 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Paladin2
A few miles from the heart of British chemical/biological weapons research and production it seems more likely that it was the Brits trying to take the focus off of their helping plan and execute the attempted coup against Trump.

The second poisoning happening near by with the surviving victim having told Scotland Yard that he found the poison in a sealed bottle also makes it look like it wasn't anyone who had to transport the poison very far prior to using it as opposed to just picking it up a few miles down the road at the Porton Down drive in window.

Once the US went along with the British cock and bull story, though, everyone and his brother has been trying to take advantage of the incident.

11 posted on 08/08/2018 1:57:33 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Rashputin
p07
12 posted on 08/08/2018 2:05:35 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Snickering Hound

Nice photo of you and your cat.


13 posted on 08/08/2018 2:14:11 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: McGruff
Yeah, Putin would kill people using Soviet era nerve agents - like some Bond movie. It's just ridiculous on its face.

British intel hates and spies on us more than the Russians ever dreamed of, and it's been going on long before the Brits tried to interfere in our elections and sandbag Trump.

Our system is just simply worm-ridden.

14 posted on 08/08/2018 2:17:43 PM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Ann Archy
"I just read this guys name on a thread here......hmmm"

Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm, and then hmmmmmmmmm again.

15 posted on 08/08/2018 2:19:21 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: mass55th

Bill Browder is the most dangerous man in America. he along with rino Cirrupt Graham and others want WW3. look him up and not the NYT puff piece


16 posted on 08/08/2018 2:22:16 PM PDT by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: McGruff

Why would an entire nation be punished for the deeds on of one or a few? It is stupid.


17 posted on 08/08/2018 2:22:30 PM PDT by GingisK
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

Novichok was first developed in the 1970s and Eighties by what was then the Soviet Union. The name means “newcomer” in Russian, and indicates the fact that when it was developed it marked a major breakthrough in the power of such chemical weapons.

That new potency meant that it was by some way the most powerful nerve agent in the world, and it continues to be thought one of the most deadly weapons available.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/novichok-nerve-agent-what-is-it-explained-amesbury-wiltshire-salisbury-a8432291.html

Yet they survived?


18 posted on 08/08/2018 2:23:40 PM PDT by McGruff
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: McGruff

Is there conclusive evidence that it was the Russians rather than the Britslamists who have a chemical warfare facility just a few miles away who carried out the poisoning?

The government in Londonstan is just as likely a culprit, and had an easier means to carry this out.


19 posted on 08/08/2018 2:24:46 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MrEdd
p07

Sergei Skripal was a double agent from Russia for MI-5 that fled to Britain, not seeing the motive for British muslims...

20 posted on 08/08/2018 2:33:12 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-66 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson