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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 09:03 AM Aug 2018

Russian TV To Trump: Listen Up If You Want Our Support

Caroline Orr

August 12, 2018 4:25 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not happy about the new sanctions imposed by the U.S. this week, and his cronies are using one of the Kremlin’s most popular state-run media programs to get the message across to Trump.

Investigative reporter and Russian media analyst Julia Davis reported Friday that Russian state TV devoted an entire panel on a news program this week to a discussion about how Russia should retaliate against the U.S. for the new sanctions, which were imposed in response to the Kremlin’s involvement in the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter earlier this year in Salisbury, U.K.

The assassination attempt on Skripal was carried out using the nerve gas Novichok, which violated the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act, and as a result, triggered the mandatory enforcement of new sanctions.

With the previous round of sanctions taking its toll on the economy, Russian officials are not happy about the prospect of facing additional punitive measures.

The Prime Minister even declared this week that imposing new sanctions would be tantamount to an “economic war,” while guests on the Russian TV show “60 Minutes” talked about the need to take more “decisive” actions to pressure Trump into easing up on the sanctions (even though Trump doesn’t have much say in the matter, since they were enacted under a mandatory clause).

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Russian TV To Trump: Listen Up If You Want Our Support (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2018 OP
Pee pee tape? padah513 Aug 2018 #1
Is this fake news? Iliyah Aug 2018 #2
I Hope They Do It Leith Aug 2018 #3

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
2. Is this fake news?
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 09:14 AM
Aug 2018

I mean what a WOW effect. Russia's reality is to threaten the GOP WH and GOP lawmakers in plain view. Oh my. Russia brought and paid for our democracy through these unpatriotic and un-American assholes. Double UGH.

Leith

(7,802 posts)
3. I Hope They Do It
Sun Aug 12, 2018, 09:33 AM
Aug 2018

tRump would tweet endlessly about anyone else who talked against him. If (or when) Russia brings him down, it would hurt tRump to his core. At this point, it doesn't look like anything else would get him to understand what he's doing and get him off his destructive path.

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