Posted on 04/12/2025 3:13:03 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
US President Donald Trump has prolonged by another year anti-Russian sanctions imposed by his predecessor, Joe Biden, suggesting that Moscow continues to pose a serious threat to the country's national security.
Washington slapped punitive measures on Russia after it absorbed Crimea as a result of a referendum back in 2014, and later over Moscow's supposed meddling in American electoral processes, with the sanctions having been considerably stepped up following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022.
The document dated April 10, 2025, has appeared on the Federal Register's website, announcing the "Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation."
It refers primarily to Executive Order 14024 signed by Biden in April 2021 in response to the presumed "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and the economy of the United States" allegedly emanating from Russia.
According to the document, among the "harmful" activities ascribed to Russia are "efforts to undermine the conduct of free and fair democratic elections and democratic institutions in the United States and its allies and partners."
Some of Moscow's other supposed transgressions are attempts to "undermine security in countries and regions important to United States national security; and to violate well-established principles of international law, including respect for the territorial integrity of states."
Late last month, the US head of state lamented that there was still "a lot of ill will between" Ukraine and Russia.
Trump also threatened to impose new sanctions on Moscow if he deems that Russia is responsible for any failure in ceasefire talks on the Ukraine conflict.
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Excellent news!
Lift the ammo embargo! I miss cheap 5.56 and 7.62 x 39....don’t like paying 50 cents a round.
This will give Ukraine another 12 months of losing.
Quite the way to negotiate peace there Donald.
Existing is winning when facing a genocidal invasion by a country that denies Ukraine’s very right to exist as a nation and culture separate from the filth and mass murder of the Russkiy Mir.
All we're doing is hurting ourselves by not making beneficial, truly free and fair trade with Russia while continuing to push Russia into an alliance with China.
The aggression has been and continues to be SOLELY on the Ukrainian side. Ukrainian nationalists want to force those in the annexed areas to be part of Ukraine.
Tell your Putin to get with the program and agree to President Trump’s Easter ceasefire.
Trump is not going to put up with the little POS
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“ Quite the way to negotiate peace there Donald.”
Know what? Don’t care.
Be careful, there.
Don't you know that you'll bring about the wrath of the "no nothing" free/pers that still think them sanctions stopped them there Ruskies from taking over the world?
Yep. Them there sanctions are working out real well. But for the wrong country. The Ruskies flourish while we struggle with $36 trillion in debt.
Smart. Real smart there boys.
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“Existing is winning when facing a genocidal invasion by a country that denies Ukraine’s very right to exist as a nation and culture separate from the filth and mass murder of the Russkiy Mir.”
Coming from you this is big. It’s good to see you’ve lowered your expectations to align with reality. You’re right, Ukraine WILL survive, but maybe in different borders.
Peace negotiations could only work if Putin was serious about peace. But all Putin wants is to hold his I’ll gotten territory and have Ukraine disarmed so he can come back in a few years and finish the job
Muscowy had been in an alliance with China ever since Putin consolidated power in the early 2000s
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