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.
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Information obtained from the US federal contracts registry reveals that the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has funded a number of military projects performed at #PortonDown, over the last decade
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And he did it to help Trump in 2020....
Good points, except Putin didn’t even manage to kill them. They mysteriously recovered after a dose of military grade toxins .... ok ...
The entire charge is ridiculous. There is no way in the world that a professional organization like Russian intelligence is going to order any operative to use any kind of a poison gas to kill an individual target. The 99% chance is that the spy or operative being given such an order would simply pull out his service pistol and shoot the idiot trying to give the order or relay the order to him.
Why is this USA business? It happened on British soil. Economic sanctions are acts of war and have already led to big wars. Too much of this is conjecture and could be deception.
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