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babylonsister

(170,962 posts)
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 07:24 AM Jul 2017

Russia Warns of Painful Response If Trump Backs U.S. Sanctions

Setting the agenda?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-26/russia-says-new-u-s-sanctions-killing-chances-for-improved-ties

Russia Warns of ‘Painful’ Response If Trump Backs U.S. Sanctions
By Stepan Kravchenko
July 26, 2017, 4:29 AM EDT July 26, 2017, 5:38 AM EDT


Russia threatened to retaliate against new sanctions passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, saying they made it all but impossible to achieve the Trump administration’s goal of improved relations.

The measures push U.S.-Russia ties into uncharted territory and “don’t leave room for the normalization of relations” in the foreseeable future, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Wednesday, according to the Interfax news service.

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Russia has prepared “economic and political measures that will be adopted if the Senate and Trump support the bill,” said Vladimir Dzhabarov, deputy chairman of the international affairs committee in the upper house, the RIA Novosti news service reported. Relations with the U.S. “are at such a low level that we have nothing to lose” by retaliating, he said.

Putin said after the meeting in Hamburg that he believed Trump accepted his denial that Russia interfered in the election. Congressional committees and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are examining possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, which Trump has dismissed as a “witch hunt.”

The House vote adds to deepening Russian gloom over prospects for a breakthrough in relations with Trump, six months after he took office pledging to improve ties with Putin. Russia threatened last week to expel U.S. diplomats and seize embassy property in Moscow, after Ryabkov failed to gain agreement at talks in Washington for the return of Russian diplomatic compounds taken by the Obama administration in December in response to the election hacking.

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Russia Warns of Painful Response If Trump Backs U.S. Sanctions (Original Post) babylonsister Jul 2017 OP
Not hacking our elections Turbineguy Jul 2017 #1
Would it be Pee-Painful ? OnDoutside Jul 2017 #2
My thought exactly. AwakeAtLast Jul 2017 #6
Putin your own economy desperately needs tourism billions.not just from poor countries like your NK Sunlei Jul 2017 #3
This is between you, Putin, and Trump...leave the rest of us out of it. Frustratedlady Jul 2017 #4
sounds like trump has his marching orders! spanone Jul 2017 #5
There can be no improved relations while their malevolent puppet heads our government geek tragedy Jul 2017 #7
"Russia Warns of Painful Response If Trump Backs U.S. Sanctions" Weekend Warrior Jul 2017 #8
2 possibilities Johnny2X2X Jul 2017 #9
+1, Depends on if the sanctions have some real teeth and quick impact, uponit7771 Jul 2017 #12
Who's your daddy, Trump? nikibatts Jul 2017 #10
He'll ensure that all Russian prostitutes Codeine Jul 2017 #11

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
3. Putin your own economy desperately needs tourism billions.not just from poor countries like your NK
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 08:08 AM
Jul 2017

ferry ticket sales.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
4. This is between you, Putin, and Trump...leave the rest of us out of it.
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 08:08 AM
Jul 2017

Neither of you would recognize the truth if it tripped you on the street.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
7. There can be no improved relations while their malevolent puppet heads our government
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 10:33 AM
Jul 2017

Once we have liberated ourselves from Russian control of our foreign policy apparatus, then we can talk about improved relations.

Until then, Russia can fuck right the fuck off.

 

Weekend Warrior

(1,301 posts)
8. "Russia Warns of Painful Response If Trump Backs U.S. Sanctions"
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 10:41 AM
Jul 2017

The narrative has gone so far that Trump is now being described as something other than a voice of the US. That wording is excellent.

Johnny2X2X

(18,744 posts)
9. 2 possibilities
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 10:50 AM
Jul 2017

Either they drop some incriminating evidence on Trump or this is just a decoy.

You know Trump and Putin will feign aggression towards each other at some point to cover their tracks.

It's all about the oil deal. Congress won't let it go through, the $500 Billion Oil deal between Exon and Russia is the whole reason why Russia helped steal the White House.

If Hillary and Obama had let that oil deal go through, Putin would never have attacked our Democracy.

Here's the thing, if Putin doesn't get what he wants with that oil deal, his next best thing is to create chaos in America. He has nothing to lose by exposing everything that happened, all it will do is weaken America.

 

Codeine

(25,586 posts)
11. He'll ensure that all Russian prostitutes
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 10:53 AM
Jul 2017

dispatched to Trump's hotel room have a nice big plate of asparagus an hour before Tinkle Time.

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