The Russian Federation promised that they would retaliate after Obama’s sanctions today, and they have:
Moscow appears to have already taken action. CNN reported late on Thursday that Russian authorities ordered the shutdown of the Anglo-American School of Moscow, which primarily serves children of Western embassy personnel, as well as the closure of a U.S. embassy vacation house in Serebryany Bor, near Moscow.
Take that, Western capitalist dogs!! Wait. Really? That’s it?
The Russian embassy in Singapore told CNBC that it was not placed to comment on the CNN report.
The closure of an international school would be unusual for Moscow, but not impossible, Douglas Paal, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told CNBC on Friday.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova had already warned of redress on Thursday following news of the White House sanctions.
“We can only add that if Washington takes new hostile steps, it will receive an answer. This applies to any actions against Russian diplomatic missions in the United States, which will immediately backfire at U.S. diplomats in Russia. The Obama administration probably does not care at all about the future of bilateral relations, but history will hardly forgive it for this après-nous-le-deluge attitude,” she said in an official statement.
This is a pretty lame cold war, if you ask me. Then again, we have a lame duck president leading it, so I guess it makes sense.
On the other hand, what good does it do Putin to strike at the United States when his BFF Trump is poised to take over and roll back the sanctions anyway? Even John Bolton admits that the sanctions were toothless and not proportional to the attack Russia made on America – and he’s a Trump guy!!
We’re kinda screwed.