So wait, I’m confused. I thought Trump folk were Russian agents? So why are they keeping sanctions in place while Tony Podesta was receiving money to lobby against our sanctions? Why have most of the efforts made by Trump so far been things that Russia would not want, such as approving the Keystone Pipeline? Why did Obama nix it? So confusing!
Via Daily Caller:
Sec. of State Rex Tillerson said Friday at a NATO summit in Brussels that U.S. sanctions enacted against Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula will remain in place.
“Crimea-related sanctions must remain in place until Russia returns control of the peninsula to Ukraine. Even in the face of Russia’s aggression, Ukraine has accomplished a great deal domestically,” Tillerson said during a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission, according to CBS News.
“We applaud recent reform successes, including anti-corruption efforts and pursuing necessary reforms to meet IMF conditionality.”
The Obama administration implemented various sanctions against the Russian government in 2014 over the invasion of Crimea.