Russia and our election

[Belsnickel]

(07-18-2017, 01:47 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Fine.

The fact that you are automatically calling it weak without knowing the terms of the deal is awfully iffy. It's not like "I sanction you!" has really ever accomplished a whole lot. Just look at NK. Sanction them and their people freeze and starve while their leadership (the people you're presumably trying to punish) are fat and making nukes.

Now I am not holding my breath that anyone in charge in Russia will get heavily punished, because politics and justice sadly rarely seem to make a pair. That said, maybe Russia makes some big economic concessions as far as our exports to them or theirs to us, or just pays a large fine. Who knows.

If it comes to be that they do make a deal and it's basically "My bad, tehehe" then sure, I will be with you calling that shit weaksauce.


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PS, I don't make Strawman, I only make Wickerman. So watch yoself.

See? That wasn't so hard. 

Completely fair response. I freely admit that my jumping the gun on calling it weak is the result of my opinions of the administration over all, but it is also in addition into the continued denial on the part of the administration as to Russia's efforts to undermine our democracy and their established willingness to potentially lift sanctions imposed by the previous administration. This one deal could end up not being a portrayal of weakness on the part of our foreign policy, but the actions and statements from the current administration lead me to assume it will be.