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The Republican-led Senate voted decisively to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2016 election by approving a wide-ranging sanctions package that targets key sectors of Russia's economy and individuals who carried out cyber attacks.
Senators on Wednesday passed the bipartisan sanctions legislation 97-2, underscoring broad support among Republicans and Democrats for rebuking Russia after U.S. intelligence agencies determined Moscow had deliberately interfered in the presidential campaign. Lawmakers who backed the measure also cited Russia's aggression in Syria and Ukraine.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by jmorris on Thursday June 15 2017, @02:02AM (2 children)
If we want to sanction Russia for Crimea / Ukraine that is one thing, of course we already did that. But this Russia! Russia! Russia! nonsense is getting out of hand.
Can someone explain in an elevator speech what Russia is actually accused of doing? Something serious?
Because best I can figure out the charge boils down to willful practice of journalism without a license. That is illegal now? And all of the available evidence points to the DNC email being leaked by Seth Rich because he was a butthurt Bernie Bro. The HRC email is probably in the files of every intelligence agency in the world with a cyber unit (i.e. all of them) since it was a sitting duck. Since most also hack / spy on each other they likely have multiple copies obtained through multiple paths and compare them for differences. The NSA being (hopefully) best at this they probably have a dozen or more copies including the one they hacked themselves. Singling out and punishing Russia for that is borderline entrapment.
But more worrisome is the utter lack of evidence we are using to apply economic sanctions in an obvious effort to provoke a reaction from a country we know has thousands of fusion bombs and is already economically distressed. And it is really hard to discern a compelling reason to poke the bear like this.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Arik on Thursday June 15 2017, @03:12AM
To keep the population alarmed and distracted, of course. It's always the same reason.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 15 2017, @05:08PM
Pretty much. Lacking anything bad to say about the economy, the political/media establishment is stuck with a playbook that consists of "All Russia, All The Time!" Boring.