Russia Investigation Heating Up

[Androidpk]

What am I apologizing for? Europe not paying for their own defense while they give themselves "free healthcare".

You will have to forgive me if I tire of American blood and treasure being pissed away on one European fuck up after another. Let them be Trotskys, it's what most of them want anyway.

You are one ignorant fuck.

[Taernath]

You might want to catch up on today's news.

Link?

[Neveragain]

Sanctions are not an act of war. If we physically blockaded them, that is, but refusing to do business with them isn't.

And Trump isn't not enforcing the sanctions, he is just dragging ass on it and not doing all of the recommendations.

Sanctions are an act of war. Do we threaten other nations that would continue to do business with Russia?

[Gelston]

I'd like a link too. Nothing I've read, even stories from 3 hours ago, points to him not enforcing sanctions, just that he is dragging ass at doing it. Falling behind on deadlines and such, as he did last October.

BTW, Neveragain, if Sanctions are an act of War, we've been at war with Russia since 2004, they have economic sanctions on us and the EU. So, maybe in YOUR HEAD they are an act of war, but to the diplomats and other countries of the world, except North Korea, they are not. Threats are also not an act of war. Acting upon threats with force (not sanctions) is.

[Neveragain]

I'd like a link too. Nothing I've read, even stories from 3 hours ago, points to him not enforcing sanctions, just that he is dragging ass at doing it. Falling behind on deadlines and such, as he did last October.

BTW, Neveragain, if Sanctions are an act of War, we've been at war with Russia since 2004, they have economic sanctions on us and the EU. So, maybe in YOUR HEAD they are an act of war, but to the diplomats and other countries of the world, except North Korea, they are not. Threats are also not an act of war. Acting upon threats with force (not sanctions) is.

Honestly we have been at war with Russia since the end of WW2. If this were not the case, both countries wouldn't be able to blow the world up. We probably would not be in Afghanistan, 9/11 probably would have never happened, the Korean war................of course most of this would have never happened if the US never allowed itself to get suckered into going to war for European imperial lands.

We will have to agree to disagree on what an act of war is.

[Gelston]

We are talking about actual war. Sanctions are not an act of war. Period.

[Androidpk]

The Trump administration, under fire from lawmakers for not punishing Moscow over election meddling, said Monday it will not implement Russia-related sanctions mandated by Congress last year because the threat itself is acting as a “deterrent.”


The decision was made public after nightfall on deadline day for implementing sanctions against those who do business with Russian defense and intelligence firms, as required under a 2017 law.


Since the law took effect six months ago, said State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, “We estimate that foreign governments have abandoned planned or announced purchases of several billion dollars in Russian defense acquisitions.”


The decision was less concrete than some lawmakers envisioned when the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act passed last summer. Though also mentioning Iran and North Korea, the law was billed as a U.S. response to Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.


A list of potential targets was drawn up last month in anticipation of Monday’s deadline for implementing secondary sanctions. Instead, a State Department official said there is no need for them to be put into place now “because the legislation is, in fact, serving as a deterrent.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.14fa503b0e94

[Androidpk]

We are talking about actual war. Sanctions are not an act of war. Period.

don't even bother, he's a bigger troll than mcgyver

[Neveragain]

We are talking about actual war. Sanctions are not an act of war. Period.

Like I said, we will have to disagree.

[~Rocktar~]

Only yuppies drink scotch.

Fuck you. Yuppies drink micro brew, non GMO, flavored, craft beers, Hennessy or Patron around here because some pop music twat said it was cool. If they have bling, they waste money on Gray Goose.