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Default From CNN of all places

On Sat, 7 Apr 2018 11:21:25 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 4/6/18 4:57 PM, Tim wrote:
“Lawmakers praise Trump for Russia sanctions”

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/polit...use/index.html

Delicious!


I suppose it is a start, but I'm not sure what putting "sanctions" on a
bunch of Russian oligarchs is supposed to accomplish. We'd have a lot
more impact on Russia by severely limiting U.S. investment in Russia,
encouraging U.S. companies with investments in Russia to broker them off
to corporations in other countries, to more severely limit exports of
any sort of high technology to Russia, and to sharply cut back on the
number of Russian diplomats allowed back into the United States.


Russia can make a pretty good living just selling energy to Asia and
Europe. I am not sure how much technology they actually need from us.
Remind me again, which country is the only one with a man rated space
program?