WASHINGTON (AP) — The Russian government says it’s preparing to retaliate after new U.S. sanctions against Moscow for allegedly interfering in the 2016 American presidential election.
Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, says the Kremlin is responding calmly to the new sanctions and — in his words — “taking this in our stride.” But he says Russia has “begun preparing retaliatory measures.”
Ryabkov suggests the Trump administration timed the sanctions to come ahead of this weekend’s presidential election in Russia.
The official is quoted by the Russian state news agency Tass as saying that the U.S. action is “tied to U.S. internal disorder, tied of course to our electoral calendar.”
trump is protecting trump, nothing more.
CERT just issued a warning that Russian actors are actively attacking vital infrastructure networks.
Russia is engaged in war with the world.
Unfortunately, our leader is too busy tweeting bullshit while gorging himself on emoluments violations.
Or is Donald still collaborating with Putin? Is that why aggressive Russians are acting medicated?
Hey Donald, your BFF isn’t playing nice, what do you think the retaliatory measures will be?
the PP tape!?
This Kremlin is far more sinister than its mercurial, then sclerotic Soviet and post-Soviet predecessors. It doesn’t exile people, it doesn’t confine them in lunatic asylums, it just strikes out ruthelessly and kills without warning–and they’ve got a much more streamlined and efficient toolbox than in the l930s, when you had to worry about someone brandishing an ax at the door. I haven’t seen anything like it in my lifetime of Russia watching. And we have nothing but a useful idiot “leading” us. I’m sick at heart and afraid for all of us.