Since Hillary Clinton’s devastating loss to Donald Trump, the Democrats have been on the warpath against anyone and anything they can pin the blame on (aside from themselves, of course). So deep is their denial that they’ve taken to blame the results of the election on Russia, an absurd notion that President Obama appears to have bought into as evidenced by his expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats from the country and levying sanctions against the European nation, taking us back to the “1980’s” foreign policy he once mocked Mitt Romney for articulating:
“The diplomatic officials from the Russian embassy in Washington and its consulate in San Francisco were deemed “persona non grata” and told to leave the country within 72 hours.
President Barack Obama also announced it was closing two compounds owned by the Russian government, and used for intelligence operations, in New York and Maryland, from noon on Friday.
He also ordered sanctions against Russia’s GRU and FSB intelligence agencies, and six named Russian individuals.
They included Lt Gen Korobov, head of the GRU, and three of his deputies. The other two were Alexei Belan and Yevgeny Bogachev, two Russians wanted by the FBI for cyber crimes for years.
Also sanctioned were three computer companies alleged to have provided “material support” to the GRU.
The moves marked an unprecedented new low for US-Russian relations under Mr Obama’s presidency.
He said the 35 expelled diplomats were “intelligence operatives”.”
Weighing in on the matter was WikiLeaks, the hacktivist group attacked by establishment critics as a Russian front. According to the group, Obama’s moves are ill-advised and likely a violation of international law:
“The Russian embassy must be facing a dilemma over its 2 banned compounds. Overnight decommission, or put in people + food in and wait for Jan 20,” they wrote.
The group even ran a Twitter poll, which asked whether Moscow should “torch 40 years overnight” or “hole up & wait for Jan 20.”
Trump has repeatedly said he is willing to work with Russia, and has largely ignored the allegations of Moscow meddling into the November US elections, which the outgoing Obama administration has vowed to address. Moscow is cautiously optimistic about the relations with the new US government, saying that it will have to wait and see if Trump’s election promises match his actions after he comes into office.”
However, Putin decided not to retaliate in kind:
Russia will not expel US diplomats in a tit-for-tat response to the White House’s decision to send home Russian officials suspected of spying, Vladimir Putin has said.
The Russian president said President Barack Obama’s decision to expel 35 suspected Russian spies in retaliation for hacking and interference in the US presidential election was a “provocation” designed to deal long term damage to relations between the two countries.
“The new unfriendly measures by the US administration are regarded as provocative, designed to further undermine relations,” Mr Putin said in a statement on the Kremlin website.
“We will not create problems for American diplomats. We will not expel anyone,” he added.
They did, however, close an international school.
Did it ever occur to anyone that we hated the Soviets maybe because of the pathetic media ? Narrow minded fktards boil my p**s
Just tack it on to the other numerous laws he’s broken or failed to enforce!
Integrity?? That hasn’t been around for 8 years now!
Boil your p**s?