Posted on 01/26/2018 11:35:39 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
The Trump administration announced new sanctions Friday related to Russia's occupation of Crimea and ongoing violence in eastern Ukraine, just days ahead of a congressionally mandated deadline for the implementation a separate, broad array of Russia-related sanctions.
In a press release, the Treasury Department said it was designating 21 individuals and nine entities under existing authorities, including Russian government officials and Russian companies connected to projects in the disputed Crimean Peninsula.
The agency also sanctioned senior leaders of two Ukrainian separatist groups, the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic, as well as people and entities alleged to have provided them with material support.
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I wish someone would hold Trump accountable for all this Russia collusion! /s
“I wish someone would hold Trump accountable for all this Russia collusion! /s”
This is a ploy to make it look like there was no collusion.
This is a terrible idea. I fear they’re just doing it to deflect the Russian BS.
Now let us all sit back and watch the media as they twist themselves into a pretzel trying to spin this one out..
Hey Vlad: Collusion- you're doing it wrong..
If, as the leftards claim, Trump is a Russian puppet, he surely going to go down as the most hostile and disobedient in the history of puppets. Suffice it to say, Trump is the worst puppet ever.
#IamNotaRussionBot
*he’s surely going...
“This is a terrible idea. I fear they’re just doing it to deflect the Russian BS.”
Agreed.
Or, the Neocons are still in charge of American Foreign Policy.
Either way, a really dumb position to take.
Trump is the worst thing to happen to Vladimir Putin, and the best thing to happen to the Russian people who have been pounded by these crook oligarchs for far too long.
um. no. Russia is complicating our dealings with North Korea, undermining us at every turn in the Middle East with their friends Iran and Turkey, and the crook oligarchs have had all their cash stored in Western globali$t establishments for too long as they plunder their own people and resources.
Trump is the worst thing to happen to Vladdy Poots and the best for the Russian people - who have put up with the crap antics of the oligarchy for way too long.
This isn’t right... If Russia truly did assist in Trump with getting elected, the US should ease sanctions... After all, imagine if they had supported Hillary for President and the disaster her Presidency would have been.
The American people should be thanking the Russians, not placing more sanctions on them.
Russia is a Christian nation now and should be treated accordingly. The Crimea has always been part of Russia and Ukraine would be better off if it were.
Military Industrial Complex and Neocon elements are in many of the important foreign policy positions in the administration now.
OH NO!!! Trump is a NEOCON warmongering Russia-Hater beholden to the Military Industrial Complex!!! We’re All gonna DIE!!!
Russia is playing defense.
Do you expect them to just take what the US hands them?
Squeezing their ally Syria, sanctions, expanding NATO to their very doorstep. Not least, sponsoring a coup in their client state of Ukraine.
Don’t let your animus blind you to real politik.
Hmm. Check back in a year.
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