Russian President Vladimir Putin has waited six months after Barack Obama placed sanctions on Russia for their alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
President Trump hasn’t lifted those sanctions, as Putin thought he might, so on Sunday he ordered hundreds of United States diplomats out of the country.
https://twitter.com/RwdRG/status/891723489861931009
Putin was holding out to see if Trump would lift the sanctions and not be part of the allegations Obama pushed on the American people after Hillary Clinton’s defeat. But, with rumors of more sanctions being handed down by Trump, Putin had to act.
Source: NY Post
Putin was making good on a threat he issued on Friday that he would cut US diplomatic staff in Russia and seize two American properties after the Senate and the House voted overwhelmingly for new sanctions against Moscow.
An official at the US Embassy in Moscow said there are about 1,100 diplomatic and support staff in Russia, including US citizens and Russians, Reuters reported last week, citing a source.
Earlier Sunday, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said vote for the sanctions was the “last drop” and said Moscow would retaliate “in kind.”“We have a very rich toolbox at our disposal. It would be ridiculous on my part to start speculating on what may or may not happen ,” Rybakov said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I can assure you that different options are on the table and consideration is being given to all sorts of things.”
The Senate approved the bill by a 98-2 vote last week. The House previously approved the measure by a 419-3 margin.
Hey Congress, what hell do you expect Putin to do?
You creeps started this whole cold war mess with lies after lies. Obama wasn't flexible? https://t.co/mQWHgYYhR0— surfpenquin (@surfpenquin) July 30, 2017
Whether you want to believe it or not, Putin took the high road back in December by not jumping to respond to Obama’s decision to remove Russian diplomats from the U.S. But with President Trump on the verge of signing more Russian sanctions, Putin had to make a choice to show his strength.
Hopefully, the two leaders can talk and work out these problems. I would hate to see the liberal media get away with driving the Democrats’ false narrative and Trump being suckered into it.
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We need to send putin a thank you. It’s obvious we have way more diplomats than we need on the payroll. Let’s fire a bunch from all over the world to help reduce our budget.
The Democrats started all this Russia nonsense,..what do you expect them to do? We evicted their diplomats first thanks to the former a–hole-in-chief…
Our globalist government did more than evict their diplomats & impose ridiculous & unfair sanctions on Russia for absolutely nothing. They also mysteriously killed several ambassadors just to goad Putin into war, which he did not fall for. You’ll never hear that on the lying mainstream media, who the CIA controls. Even most of Europe is against these sanctions on Russia & thinks the US government is nothing but a bully. They are 100% correct too!
Oh Well ! That’s what all of you Russo-Phobes out there wanted ! You wanedt to restart the Cold War, just to justify massive military spending and to make all the world’s arms peddlers rich !
Good move on the part of Russia to respond in kind to the American sanctions, as the American administration falls deeper into becoming the leper of the world with their dysfunctional foreign policies.
if anyone was dysfunctional, it was the previous administration…You know “Leading from their behinds”