02-02-2017, 01:28 PM
Yeah, Trump is lifting some of the sanctions put in place after the Ukraine annex.
Doing so is against the advice of many in the Intelligence and State Departments and undermines the joint sanctions invoked by our allies in Europe, allies who are in much closer proximity to Russia and what they perceive as a hostile take-over threat (especially to the Baltics and Eastern European countries that were part of the former USSR, which Putin appears to want to re-establish though the now-sovereign countries don't).
That's my understanding.
Doing so is against the advice of many in the Intelligence and State Departments and undermines the joint sanctions invoked by our allies in Europe, allies who are in much closer proximity to Russia and what they perceive as a hostile take-over threat (especially to the Baltics and Eastern European countries that were part of the former USSR, which Putin appears to want to re-establish though the now-sovereign countries don't).
That's my understanding.