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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 administrations goal of improved relations.
The measures push U.S.-Russia ties into uncharted territory and dont 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.
Turbineguy
(37,208 posts)would be a painful response.
To republicans.
OnDoutside
(19,906 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,112 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)ferry ticket sales.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Neither of you would recognize the truth if it tripped you on the street.
spanone
(135,633 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)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)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)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.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)nikibatts
(2,198 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)dispatched to Trump's hotel room have a nice big plate of asparagus an hour before Tinkle Time.