Posted on 03/29/2018 10:14:26 PM PDT by NorseViking
Russia announced Thursday it would expel 60 U.S. diplomats, close the U.S. Consulate General in St. Petersburg and open an extraordinary United Nations session in response to Western reactions over accusations that Moscow was behind the poisoning of an ex-Soviet spy in the U.K.
Russia has denied being responsible for an alleged nerve agent attack earlier this month that has left former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter hospitalized. London, fellow Western and allied governments and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance, however, have collectively dismissed more than 100 Russian diplomats in response. Having promised retaliatory actions against a number of countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov singled out the U.S. in the latest upset for ties between Washington and Moscow.
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Not incredibly unexpected.
Trump might secretly be cheering the downsizing of useless use of State dept space abroad. Regardless of country at this point. Are they off the payrolls too?
Trump openly cheered it and thanked Putin last time it happened.
Well good. And I don’t think we should be hosting so many from Russia either.
“In a notable exception to the recent expulsions, Austria said Tuesday it would remain neutral in the affairs and not expel any Russian diplomats.”
Chicken$hits! No wonder Arnold $hitttzenegger is an a$$hole!
Israel stopped short of calling poisoning a false flag and refused to expel diplomats too.
It seems a little odd to me that the Russian government would sanction the use of an obscure poison that could be traced to a specific Russian source.
Re: “It seems a little odd to me...”
Don’t worry. The U.N. will get to the bottom of this.
LOL!
It would be helpful if Trump released the evidence that motivated him to expel diplomats.
I want to read it and make up my own mind.
Nice act of further isolation.
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