White House to hit Russia with ‘major sanctions’ in response to Navalny’s death
‘Regardless of the scientific answer, Putin’s responsible for it,’ National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says of opposition leader’s death
The White House has announced that a new package of sanctions against Russia is set to go into effect following the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Siberian prison camp.
The administration said the package would be released on Friday. This comes after President Joe Biden’s comments to reporters on Monday that he was considering new sanctions.
“We already have sanctions, but we are considering additional sanctions, yes,” he said.
On Friday, Mr Biden blamed the death of Mr Navalny on Russian President Vladimir Putin, noting that while the US was unsure what took place, it was “a consequence of something that Putin and his thugs did”.
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We've had sanctions yes, but have you heard of second sanctions?
They're already under sanctions? Now they're under double secret sanctions!
What is there left to sanction? Like, why is there any business at all taking place between the US and Russia? Is this more a plea to other nations to up their sanctions?
Most major US corporations are still doing all kinds of business in Russia. Some did initial pullbacks but are quietly re-entering that market.
A big ol bunch of fucks. That's what they are.
They could do something about the long list of companies that still operate there:
https://som.yale.edu/story/2022/over-1000-companies-have-curtailed-operations-russia-some-remain
Why does that list have Serbian, Chinese, and other countries' companies on it? Don't American sanctions only affect American corporations? Like if Serbia sanctions some country, is the U.S. supposed to also boycott that country?
Can we include the old Fucker Tarlson in these sanctions? I'm pretty sure he counts as a Russian agent now...
Putin is about to get locked out of his Warzone account.
This is nuts. Absolutely yakking out of his yingyang.
The cause of death is being a political opponent to Putler
Of course but where were they when he got Eau De Novichok. 4 years ago ?
Politics is, unfortunately, highly political. I agree Russia should eat more shit for overseas assassinations but a win is a win.