Biden to Impose Serious Sanctions on Russia as Putin Ups the Pressure in Ukraine..............
Posted on 04/15/2021 7:29:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Vladimir Putin is raising the threat level in Ukraine by moving tens of thousands of troops to the border, threatening war. He’s also ignoring the pleas of the international community to release his political foe, Alexey Navalny, from prison. Navalny is reportedly on a hunger strike, although the Kremlin announced they would force-feed the dissident if necessary.
So Joe Biden chose this moment in history to punish Putin for his election interference in 2015-16 as well as the state-sponsored hacks of everything from government personnel files to national security secrets.
Russia was already under severe economic sanctions for the annexation of Crimea in 2014. But Biden’s new sanctions will definitely get the Russian president’s attention.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Using a new executive order, the measure will expand the existing prohibitions on U.S. banks trading in Russian government debt, two of the people said. Previous prohibitions targeting portions of Russian sovereign debt shook Russia’s markets and added to its economic woes.
That order prohibits U.S. financial institutions from buying new bonds directly from Russia’s central bank, finance ministry and the country’s massive sovereign-wealth fund after June 14.
Among other measures, 10 Russian diplomats will be expelled, including some due to allegations that Russia offered to pay bounties to militants in Afghanistan to kill U.S. military service members, the people said. Sanctions will be imposed for Russia’s cyber intrusions, election meddling and occupation of Crimea.
Significantly, the U.S. has named the main culprit in the notorious SolarWinds hack that exposed an enormous amount of corporate data. They are formally accusing the Russian foreign intelligence service, the SVR, of carrying out the attack.
The sanctions will also target specific individuals and companies.
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More sanctions on Russia? Really? Is that really going to change its behavior? No. Like we don’t already have enough sanctions on Russia and they still doing what they do. Putin does not give a sh*t cause he knows that BidenIdiot is not Trump........
Strongly worded letter to follow.
Lol. Didn’t biden just invite Putin to hang out. This stuff never happened when Trump was in office. The other leaders of nations may not have liked him and some may have laughed. But they respected him and us. Now we look weak. They know the election was stolen and nothing was done. Heck they helped steal the election. They wanted biden in office so they can take advantage of us. I see Ford is moving bits factory back to Mexico again.
Russia is a massive nation by landmass, replete with their own stock of resources and biomes. They need the US like fish need water.
Biden is all over the map. He’s flailing and failing.
Be fun to see what happens to Americans who are in Russia...
And failing at flailing.
Biden to Impose Serious Sanctions on Russia as Putin Ups the Pressure in Ukraine..............
Pretty hard to enforce “sanctions” when you’ve just ordered your own navy to turn tail and run.
Beat the drums.
It is time for WARRRRRRRR.
Doesn’t matter with who or where.
They think we will ignore what they are doing in other areas. They think we will all pull together. They are wrong. Those days are long gone.
Media really cheerleading for war. Send in the lavender brigades and pregnant pony tail pilots. Russia will be very afraid.
Biden won’t let the Russians get the expert leadership of Hunter by not letting Hunter work for Gazprom.
...our response to all this....: “GGGGGRRRRR, WOOF, WOOF, WOOF, GGGRRRRR...!!”
Why are we still playing world cop? We have enough trouble here in our own country.
We’ve been in Afghanistan for two freakin decades man.
How bout we inwardly focus for awhile and stop meddling around the world. Good grief!
How about no more rides to ISS. How about closing airspace across russia that we rely on to resupply afg? Maybe they could give advanced manpads to our enemies in middle east and afg.
>>How about no more rides to ISS.<<
Freaking embarrassing to our nation! Technology/space global leader and we’re hitching rides from the Russians.
I shall taunt you a second time!
Sanctions forced Russia to rebuild those parts of its “supply chain” that were outside its border. Each new level of sanctions just make Russia that much more self reliant.
This is more or less what Trump was trying to do here, repatriate our industries to make us more shock resistant.
What . . . a strongly worded memo?
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