So what is "adoption" really a code word for?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Sanctions?

Hacking?

Classified intelligence?

Russian hookers peeing on the bed?

[sharedvalues]

1. Sanctions

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Adoption+sanctions

[mainstreetonce]

3. Yes

Sanctions

[Sunlei]

10. sanctions.out of spite Putin stopped adoptions. Russia is full of drunks, 1,000s of unwanted kids.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. The Magnitsky Act.

[dchill]

4. I thought surely everybody knew...

Magnitsky is Russian for adoption.

[Pachamama]

5. All of the above...

[handmade34]

6. ....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/14/the-magnitsky-act-explained/?utm_term=.dafa5eedafcd

How does adoption factor in?


When pressed on the details of his meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer at Trump Tower in June 2016, Donald Trump Jr. appeared to downplay its significance by linking it to concerns over an issue that appears uncontroversial on its surface: adoption. But the barring of U.S. adoptions of Russian children is a flash point of tense diplomatic relations and tied directly to the Magnitsky Act.

Two weeks after Obama signed the Magnitsky Act, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill that blocked adoption of Russian children by parents in the United States. Russia then also imposed sanctions on Browder and found Magnitsky posthumously guilty of crimes.
Supporters of the bill at the time cited mistreatment of Russian children by adoptive U.S. parents as the reason for its passage. But it was widely viewed as a retaliatory act, and the issues have been linked since.
Trump Jr. said that despite assurances that Veselnitskaya would come bearing incriminating information about Hillary Clinton in their 2016 meeting, the topic quickly shifted to the Magnitsky Act and U.S. adoptions from Russia.
Browder described Veselnitskaya in an NPR interview as a longtime foil to him in her efforts to repeal the Magnitsky Act. She represents a member of the Katsyv family, whose company is under investigation by the Justice Department in connection with the laundering of real estate money in New York. Denis Katsyv has lobbied to overturn Magnitsky and to end Russia's American adoption ban...

[Maeve]

7. One more possibility--money laundering

Using the sanctions issue as a cover for talking about something much more near and dear to a tRump heart (such as it is)--cold hard cash.

[Squinch]

8. Lifting sanctions, quid pro quo hacking and election tampering by Russians, clearing the path for

a resumption of money laundering for Putin and his pals, an endeavor that Trump(R) is already up to his eyeballs in.

[Sunlei]

11. USA should tighten sanctions. Russia produces thousands of IS fighters & terrorists in 'outback' rus

Russia. never forget those Istanbul Airport bombers had sophisticated bombs and Russian passports. Turkey was destabilized by pros!

[Squinch]

12. Yup. And now with the US a well-neutered pet of Putin, many more nations will

soon be hosts to those same pros.

[Sunlei]

14. some members of the Republican party colluded and worse. That cancer needs to be wiped out.

IMO.

[Sunlei]

9. could be money laundering, also could be the 'family' has some children sired in russia they want.

hostages. a lot of governments and segments of societies will hurt "hostages" to strengthen blackmail. They do it all the time.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Sanctions, Magnitsky, sure, yes. But also: white babies.

There's a racial aspect to the Russian adoption issue that few are discussing, but that the white supremacists in the US find compelling. The adoption ban strongly limits the supply of white babies from Eastern Europe and shifts the US adoption markets even more strongly to other areas of the world. There's a racial subtext to this issue, just as there is with everything Russia on the right these days: Putin is preferable to just about anyone (for the racist right) because he is the "defender" of "white Europe" against the "enemies of the West."

[Sunlei]

15. unfortunately a lot of russians have SERIOUS drinking problems, not much birth control & throw away

unwanted kids. Below is a very common disorder of babies from chronic drunks.

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_spectrum_disorder

IMO, putins army of boots on the ground are full of the abandoned children, they go to military service right from their 'homes' for unwanted kids.

[Adrahil]

16. Money.

It's always about money with Trump. And the Russians know it.