What Happened to Enforcing Russian Sanctions?

[dlk]

While everyone is fixated on the Nunes memo, no one is paying attention to Trump's refusal to enforce the sanctions against Russia.

[enough]

1. That's over.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-02/treasury-warns-of-widespread-effects-of-russian-debt-sanctions

The U.S. Treasury Department warned that Russia’s sovereign debt market is too important to sanction without risking global financial turmoil, signaling the Trump administration is wary of targeting it for penalties.


A Treasury report obtained by Bloomberg concluded that expanding sanctions to new Russian sovereign debt and derivatives could destabilize markets and spread beyond Russia to have “negative spillover effects into global financial markets and businesses.”

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[Gothmog]

2. Purin ordered trump to ignore the law passed by Congress

[lindysalsagal]

3. Vlad's got the videos of 45 with the russian mobsters, that's what.

Among other things.

If only it would all get "released" when 45 finally goes down. But Russia, unlike faux news, isn't into ratings. Too bad.