By Julia Conley
Members of the U.S. diplomatic staff in Russia will be expelled in the coming weeks, following an order on Friday by the Russian Foreign Ministry. The move was made in response to a new economic sanctions bill that passed in both houses of the U.S. Congress.
Russia said it would also seize two properties used by the U.S. Embassy by next week. Reuters cited a report by Russia’s Interfax news agency saying “hundreds” of employees would be affected, by the exact number was not clear.
The legislation, meant to retaliate against Russia for its alleged interference in the 2016 election, passed in a vote of 419 to 3 on Thursday, effectively veto-proofing the bill should President Donald Trump want to overrule it. The White House has said in recent weeks that it didn’t want new sanctions in place. The Obama administration imposed earlier sanctions late last year just after the election.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday that Trump would review the bill and that she didn’t know whether he would sign it, but the Kremlin said that Russia had announced their plan to retaliate without waiting for Trump’s decision, because “technically the form passed by the Senate is more important.”
The new sanctions would impact the Russian energy and financial sectors, and the European Union has expressed concerns that they could also affect European companies involved in the building of a new pipeline from Germany to Russia.
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he “very much regrets” the strained relations between the U.S. and Russia, and accused the U.S. of displaying “boorish behavior” and “anti-Russia hysteria.”
The Russian foreign ministry called allegations that it meddled in the 2016 election “an absolutely invented pretext.”
Tensions between the U.S. and Russia have deepened since the election, despite a relatively warm relationship between Trump and Putin. In addition to an on-camera meeting, the two leaders spoke privately at the G20 Summit earlier this month, in a meeting that was initially undisclosed. News of the talk came in the wake of reports that Donald Trump, Jr., met with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign after being told he could gather damaging information about Hillary Clinton in the meeting.
While the Trump administration has dismissed much of the coverage of the issue as “fake news,” Russian officials have continued to deny involvement in the hacking of Democratic Party emails or efforts to swing the election.
By Julia Conley / Creative Commons / Common Dreams / Report a typo
The crap the US Government dose is mind boggling. So dumb and stupid as to be retarded. Mental degenerates. Please pass a law that ends this government once and for all.
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Welcome to The Onion Matrix. LOL. Good one, BTC!
P.S. Hope the bees are doing well in your neck of the woods. There seem to be far fewer bumble bees in my yard this summer.
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LOL blue. Let the Matrix Meme Wars begin!
Very few bumblebees, even with the hives we put in and the clover we planted, still having to manually pollinate some species. That said, production is way up this year so go figure.
Have you seen this most excellent video by Chiron Last about etiological magick spells? http://howtoexitthematrix.com/2017/07/29/video-the-golden-web-series/
It’s rather long but fascinating, still making my way through it.
Hope all is well in your neck of the mountains.
Um… I replied to you earlier but it hasn’t made it past the AP censor yet. When it does, please replace the word “etiological” with “etymological.” Guess I got my logicals confused…. 🙂
This was exhilarating. I don’t even know what the article was about.
Oh yeah. Maybe they baked together. That strengthens existing relationships.
To understand “Manifest Destiny” in the 21st century: No matter who is “President” or which party runs U.S. Congress, there is a PERMANENT U.S. policy since the beginning of the last century to “dismember” Russia. In 1919-1920, 10,000 U.S. Marines were in Siberia, and another 10,000 U.S. Marines where in the Russian Arctic (Murmansk). The plan is like Sarah Palin “saw” it: “From Alaska we can see Russia !”. The U.S. wants to dominate “independent” republics in Siberia, next to Alaska and with borders to of both China and Korea. The Saudis want to dominate the Russian Caucasus, Germany (a U.S. military colony) wants to dominate the Ukraine, Finland want sKarelia, and the Russian Arctic would be “under the protection of the international community” …
How many people are locked up for petty crimes, in this fascist state instead of being given a citation.