Obama’s sanctions ‘gesture of despair, poisoned gift’ for Trump admin – Russian senator — RT News
Obama’s sanctions in opposition to Russia are merely a “gesture of despair” and could possibly be a “poisoned present” for the Trump administration, Aleksey Pushkov, Chairman of the Federation Council Mass Media Committee, instructed RT.
The latest sanctions are a sign of the Obama Administration’s “incapacity to isolate Russia, to weaken Russia,” Pushkov mentioned.
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The senator referred to as the sanctions a measure of “vengeance and retaliation.”
“Nothing really labored out the way in which President Obama needed it to work out,” he mentioned, including that the Obama administration needed “to take revenge on Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
The new sanctions could possibly be an issue for the administration of President-elect Donald Trump “as a result of Russia will take some measures in return,” Pushkov mentioned.
“This is a poisoned present for from Obama administration for Trump administration [sic]. And the Trump administration must take care of this poisoned present. Hope they won’t eat it and never get contaminated.
“But they must show that it was an emotional transfer by Obama administration. And that may’t be nice for the long run state of Russian-American relations.”
Meanwhile, a diplomatic supply instructed RIA Novosti information company new spherical of US anti-Russian sanctions could possibly be partly linked to the Obama administration’s Israeli-Palestinian coverage. The supply mentioned that Russia refused to help measures proposed by the Obama administration geared toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian battle.
After Russia voted in favor of the us decision that referred to as for an finish of the Israeli settlement constructing on the occupied territories, “Sergey Lavrov, the top of the Russian Foreign Ministry, knowledgeable the [US] State Secretary John Kerry that Russia is not going to help proposals in regards to the Israeli-Palestinian developed by the present US administration,” the supply instructed RIA Novosti, including that this transfer may have contributed to the US president’s determination to impose new sanctions in opposition to Russia.
On Thursday Barack Obama introduced a set of countermeasures in response to what he referred to as “the Russian authorities’s aggressive harassment of US officers and cyber operations aimed on the US election.”
Thirty-five Russian diplomats have been expelled from the US, with Obama branding them “intelligence operatives.” Two Russian diplomatic compounds had been closed, in New York and Maryland.
According to the US president, 9 Russian entities, together with the GRU (Russian Military Intelligence) and the FSB (Federal Security Service), have been sanctioned.
Kremlin press-secretary Dmitry Peskov mentioned that sanctions are one other manifestation of the unpredictable and aggressive international coverage by the Obama administration.
The Obama administration and the dropping Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, have repeatedly accused Moscow of being behind cyberattacks that focused Clinton and her marketing campaign chairman, John Podesta, throughout their marketing campaign.
They mentioned that the whistleblower web site WikiLeaks obtained the damaging hacked emails, which dashed Clinton’s possibilities to win, from Russian intelligence businesses.
