White House threatened Russia with "frank conversation" over retaliatory sanctions

The United States has threatened Russia with "frank talk" about Moscow's retaliation for US sanctions. As a senior White House official said, Washington will show what kind of Russian activity it does not intend to tolerate.

Washington is trying to understand what Moscow wanted to achieve by introducing retaliatory measures against US sanctions. According to the already established tradition, the Americans "do not understand" why Russia is imposing sanctions on the United States, if Washington has already explained everything who was punished and for what.

The perplexed Americans promise a "frank conversation" in which they will "show" to Russia what kind of activity they "do not intend to tolerate." Judging by the words of the representative of the Biden administration, they want to tell how bad it is to impose retaliatory sanctions.

Meanwhile, another White House spokesman told reporters bluntly that the United States "will not hesitate" to impose new restrictions on Russia for actions that they consider "unacceptable." That is, Washington is planning to introduce new sanctions in response to Moscow's actions. Why doesn't Moscow impose sanctions on states whose actions against Russia are unacceptable? This is not the prerogative of the United States, as the White House thinks.

Recall that on April 15, Joe Biden introduced another package of sanctions against Russia, calling it a punishment for meddling in elections. The retaliatory measures introduced by Moscow, apparently, were not expected by Washington, the administration of Joe Biden has not yet understood, but for what?

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[NDR-791]

The United States has threatened Russia with "frank talk" about Moscow's retaliation for US sanctions.
Let's go crazy ... Well, let's shoot an arrow and frankly, let's play it We are so no stranger to, maybe the brothers will catch up, explain who has a field, and who has a lawn in front of the house

[Polite Moose]

Quote: Evdokim

Go crazy, and what scared you,

We will respond to Biden's "frank conversation" with Putin's "ominous silence."

[Evdokim]

Quote: Polite Elk

we will answer with "ominous silence"

And what can you talk about with debilami? Let's give them a matryoshka, a babalaika, a hat with earflaps. Maybe they'll calm down? Although hardly.

[Guru]

And what can you talk about with debilami? Let's give them a matryoshka, a babalaika, a hat with earflaps. Maybe they'll calm down? what Although hardly. hi

Already given -Does not help

[Vladimir Mashkov]

The State Department pretends that it "does not understand" why the Russian authorities are responding to their unreasonable sanctions with counter-sanctions and threaten with new sanctions. This is the position of the most insolent lawlessness. Oh well. We'll see.

[iouris]

Did you buy Lavrov's hat for your own?

[Anatoly 288]

Pink hat, transparent blouse ... you see, they lit up and the accessory will remain as a keepsake

[Guru]

Did you buy Lavrov's hat for your own?

Yeah and diplomatic dinners, he arranges for his hard-earned money That was sarcasm. Of course not, these are minor administrative (diplomatic) expenses, this is nothing more than symbolism.

[Captain Pushkin]

Quote: Guru

these are minor administrative (diplomatic) expenses,

There is an item in the budget of any self-respecting office - "representation expenses".

[Pereira]

What does Biden have to do with it? Is he himself going to talk? Speaking of which, it’s with the Camel.

[Alex777]

Why are you so angry with Kamala?
She insisted on the withdrawal of troops from Afgan.
The sooner the Taliban get rid of drug addiction, the better it will be for us.
And all the warriors did not want to withdraw. Everything. Both old and new.
There are no illusions, but so far there is nothing to accuse her of. IMHO.

[Captain Pushkin]

Quote: Alex777

all the warriors did not want to withdraw.

In their place, who would like to get away from such a burst of money. The warriors did not have time to account for the expenditure of the next hundreds of billions, well, they simply could not explain where they had gone, and they were already being brought up to new ones ...

[aleks26]

Quote: Alex777

The sooner the Taliban get rid of drug addiction, the better it will be for us.

As if not the other way around, the plantations will expand. This is the same loot and necessary nonsense for their warriors.

[Alex777]

The Taliban are Orthodox Muslims.
Drugs are a sin for them.
I do not know how it will be with ISIS now, but when the Taliban ruled in Afghanistan, the death penalty was imposed for cultivating poppy seeds.
From this I proceed.

[mikstepanenko]

When ours were there, the production of drugs was not welcomed. And yet it was. When the Taliban replaced ours, drug production fell to almost zero. And under the Yankees it increased hundreds of times, even compared to our period.

[da Vinci]

Tomorrow the Tajiks will smear snot, calling on the Russian army to their borders, and forgetting about the Amerov bases and biological laboratories.

[Normal ok]

Quote: Evdokim

Quote: NDR-791

Go crazy, threatened Russia with "frank conversation"

Exactly, go crazy, and what scared the hedgehog with his bare ass.!

There is a more explicit phrase: "babu ...."

[Fitter65]

Quote: Evdokim

Exactly, go crazy, and what scared the hedgehog with his bare ass.!

Well, while the dollar costs 74 rubles 91 kopecks, while such decisions are being made

“The Renault Group has presented its next strategy of work under the name Renaulution. The strategy spells out plans that relate to AvtoVAZ and the Lada brand (part of the Renault Group). In particular, in the hierarchy of the Renault Group, the domestic Lada will be merged with the Romanian brand Dacia.

That begs the question - who is the hedgehog, and who has a bare ass?

[Captain Pushkin]

Quote: Fitter65

begs the question - who is the hedgehog, and who has a bare ass?

The strange question is, what will be the ass if you give your property for a pittance to your enemies?

[Dimy4]

Well, let's shoot an arrow and frankly, let's play wassat

She is purely casual, like real guys! _! (folding type).

[Insurgent]

White House threatened Russia with "frank conversation" over retaliatory sanctions

Yes, you can now talk your conversations as much as you like ...

And the sanctions - here they are

Do not like ? Well, that's why they are sanctions

[Ingvar 72]

Quote: Insurgent

Do not like ? Well, that's why they are sanctions

There are no real retaliatory sanctions. They also continue to import radioactive waste from Germany, titanium is also supplied to the United States, and American enterprises continue to operate in Russia.

[Insurgent]

Quote: Ingvar 72

There are no real retaliatory sanctions.

But nevertheless, the United States was alarmed.

Without touching upon the economic interaction with the West in a particular industry as a whole, I would like to note that, in particular, the import of radioactive waste is an essential business.
After all, we are not talking about blunt import for burial and storage, but about the processing of "waste" according to the technological cycle, which, at this stage, only the Russian Federation possesses.

Their "waste" is your income (in contrast to Ukraine, which has built a repository for waste from all over Europe in its Chernobyl Zone) ...

[Ingvar 72]

Quote: Insurgent

Their "waste" is your income

Waste recycling plant is also income, only no one wants to be built nearby.
And for some reason, the cunning Germans in terms of production do not want to develop these technologies at home. Although there are no secrets in these.

[Reiter]

The Germans simply put an end to nuclear energy (the Greens have a rather influential party and pushed through this decision, by the way, not all Germans are happy about this, next to France, which seems to have 60% of nuclear energy) and soon they will have all nuclear power plants closed, so that it makes no sense for them to invest in this technology.

[Alex777]

There are no real retaliatory sanctions.

There are those that we introduce without risking ourselves.

titanium is also produced in the USA, and American enterprises continue to operate in Russia.

It is profitable for us, that's why they work.
You will not begin to freeze your ears in spite of the States, will you?
And the topic with titanium is better not to remember at all.
This is our insurance in case, if suddenly spare parts for our aircraft, made in the USA and the EU, decide to bring them under the sanctions.
And without spare parts, all air traffic will be closed.
Before imposing sanctions, the consequences must be calculated.
And a few steps ahead. What is being done.
Our response, banning Russians from working in the embassy, ​​upset the States very much. So they whine.
This happened once in history. IN USSR.
Then the States held out for 2 months. And they retreated.
Until the meeting with Biden, about the same 2 months.

[krops777]

There are no real retaliatory sanctions.

As it is not, the radius of movement of diplomats without approval was banned, the hiring of Russian workers was banned, the number of diplomats was reduced and this directly interferes with conducting subversive activities in the country, it is clear that we cannot strike economically, although the same SP-2 was not allowed to be built in Syria, the number of joint development of oil and gas has decreased several times (here it is true they shit themselves) a little, but still.

[yuliatreb]

And why wonder they have long been behaving like out-of-bounds. It is necessary to lower it, but for the chaos it is necessary to ask for a long time from the mongrels too.

[aszzz888]

yuliatreb (Vasilisa Yulievna)
Today, 08: 37

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And why wonder they have long been behaving like out-of-bounds. It is necessary to lower it, but for the chaos it is necessary to ask for a long time from the mongrels too.

On a hike, Russia gradually began to build this zoo, led by a sharkhan.

[Paranoid50]

Quote: Dimy4

She is pure and concrete, like real guys!

Duc, lobby, if the punching no longer feeds them by concepts, and they drove specific arrivals with presentations. However, I would give a lot for seeing our 90s in the current mattress.

[NIKN]

Quote: Dimy4

She is purely casual, like real guys! _! (folding type).

So they want to do this, to score a real arrow with the guys from the 90s who are now sitting in the Duma and pobazar for their grandmother in the banks of America ...

[antivirus]

it's time for Moscow to impose preventive sanctions on possible actions of the West ... and bargain for buns for their cancellation

[seregatara1969]

America and frankness are not compatible things! Telling the truth is not held in high esteem by them. They lie again and lie again

[Vend]

The United States has only to stomp its feet

[aszzz888]

Wend (Anatoly)
Today, 11: 18

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The United States has only to stomp its feet laughing laughing

And ossa ... in your pants!

[Terenin]

United States Threatens Russia With "Frank Talk"

Lavrov has already replied that these statements by the United States are from the field of schizophrenia.

[fruc]

The fact that they restricted the movement of American spies around the country should have been done for a long time and this is not enough.

[Pete mitchell]

Quote: Terenin

Lavrov has already replied that these statements by the United States are from the field of schizophrenia.

Lavrov was late, Zadornov had long ago diagnosed them: - they are .... Unfortunately he was right

[Terenin]

Quote: Pete Mitchell

Quote: Terenin

Lavrov has already replied that these statements by the United States are from the field of schizophrenia.

Lavrov was late, Zadornov had long ago diagnosed them: - they are .... Unfortunately he was right

I, too, am shocked by the super-duper patience of the department under the control of Lavrov

Pete, greetings

[Pete mitchell]

mutually,

Quote: Terenin

also shocked by the super-duper patience of the department under the control of Lavrov

it seems to me that they still think for a long time how to correctly answer, but the period of balanced actions is over, as they have repeatedly said: I sat down at the table with cheaters - keep the candelabrum close at hand and be ready to use it for its intended purpose. Hopefully the trend of the last two weeks is not a temporary phenomenon.

[tihonmarine]

According to the already established tradition, the Americans "do not understand" why Russia is imposing sanctions on the United States, if Washington has already explained everything who was punished and for what.

"What, we are children!"

[Egoza]

Quote: tihonmarine

"What, we are children!"

And don't get along with the Ukrainians. You, apparently, got infected from them, (deb ... mom) even under Yushchenko. And don't argue! We are an "ancient nation", and how much is there for you? Not even 300 years old. It means that the infection started from us.

[gurzuf]

Is not a fact! After all, 300 years ago, there was no such contagious thing. Make a conclusion about the newly acquired during these 300 years.

[prior]

" the administration of Joe Biden still does not understand, but what is their reason?"

They all understood.
But they have nowhere to retreat, behind the backs of the "exceptionalism" of the American nation and Washington.

[Lech from Android.]

Well, like a petty hooligan in the yard ... if the opponent is not frightened, he begins to twirl his fingers ... Yes, I will tear you like a newspaper into small pieces, but I will bury you with one left in the sandbox ... and laugh and sin.

[Ross xnumx]

Why doesn't Moscow impose sanctions on states whose actions against Russia are unacceptable?

It is this concern that visits the minds of Russian citizens when they see how "special" countries are engaged in outright dirty tricks against Russia. It is the decisive and adequate answers that a country respecting its own sovereignty should prepare.
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We lived during the Cold War and did not at all assume that our life should depend on the recommendations of the IMF, on the decisions of Strasbourg, on the concern of the PACE, on the indignation of the NATO leadership, on the delirium of overseas "friends", on the consultations of "former citizens of the USSR", to whom the atmosphere of socialism prevented them from wearing a kippah and having Shabbat ...
Today Russia has very few sympathizers and true friends just because of the bestial nature of capitalism. Only in this situation, Russia should not rejoice in the softening of the economic stranglehold in exchange for its own concessions in independence.

[Alexga]

This is the price of defeat in the Cold War. One gets the impression that the treatment of this problem can occur with "Caribbean Crisis-2" pills. Mattress makers do not understand other arguments.

[Ingvar 72]

Quote: AlexGa

pills Caribbean Crisis-2

This will not happen, Sasha. There will be eternal ossification. To talk about the Caribbean crises, you need to be equal in weight, and we have a colony, with a GDP lower than Canada.

[Vita vko]

Quote: Ingvar 72

and we have a colony, with a GDP below Canada

You should not measure everything with "green candy wrappers". For example, the GDP of the United States is 20 times greater than that of Russia, which is 2 times the size of the population. This only means that in the United States there is 10 times more money supply per person, which somehow circulates in the economy. Therefore, it is not surprising that they are forced to dump part of this mass to their vassals like Canada, because the amount of real product production in the United States per capita with the current development of technology is practically the same. If Russia, like the United States, concluded all international agreements in rubles, especially in the sale of hydrocarbons, then the volume of money supply in our country would have increased by tens. time. But this, as in the United States, would still have little effect on the real incomes of the population (in terms of a food basket without GMOs) and the number of unemployed.

[Ingvar 72]

Quote: Vita VKO

You should not measure everything with "green candy wrappers".

Your words, but the government would be in the ears!
And you are right about the circulation of the money supply, and the state of the economy depends on its volume.

[voyaka uh]

"that they are forced to dump a part of this mass to their vassals like Canada." ///
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Forced?
The states are quite happy with their "money supply".
63% of the world's foreign exchange reserves are held in dollars.

[Vita vko]

Quote: voyaka uh

satisfied with their "money supply".
63%

Own 63% of Tobacco-type mongrels. And what else does Sherkhan need to be happy.

[Alexga]

I would like, Igor, to wait for the moment when concern turns into action. This barrack in foreign policy cannot continue indefinitely. Lived, the covers began to press the Russian Federation. Damn, how is it?

[Ingvar 72]

And what to expect from a country whose athletes themselves stick up state symbols? In the Soviet Union, this was, in principle, impossible.
And to spite them, we pull flows, but we invest money in their bonds.

[Alexga]

Yeah...! One might think that athletes do not represent the State at the Olympic Games. In my opinion, this is not permissible. With such cases, the DPRK is soon pursuing a more successful policy. True, money is not kept there in foreign banks.

[Ingvar 72]

Nevertheless, I believe that real patriots will come to power, and not the hucksters who declare it.

[Alexga]

Time will put everything in its place. It was even difficult to imagine that there would appear figures in the state who would think of corporatising state monopolies. And the question becomes, where, where, or here?

[Lech from Android.]

The Poles put a pig on our athletes at the World Drafts Championship by publicly removing the Russian flag symbol during the match.
In the spirit of petty Polish dirty tricks ... I do not intend to forget such an insult to our country and our athletes to Poland.

[Woodman]

The United States has threatened Russia with "frank talk" about Moscow's retaliation for US sanctions.

Offended or what?

According to the already established tradition, the Americans "do not understand" why Russia is imposing sanctions on the United States.

It seems that the very fact that someone is imposing sanctions against the United States is shocking the Americans ... They are so "exceptional" ...

[Cowbra]

It would be nice for Biden to personally explain. And not even Putin - Lavrov

[Lech from Android.]

It will not work ... given Biden's physical condition, the US President may fall asleep while explaining ... dementia, you know.

[Cowbra]

Quote: Lech from Android.

the president of the United States may fall asleep while explaining

So that's the salt. But a frank conversation will come out ... "Hedgehog, you, chtol? Dead, chtol?"

[carstorm 11]

Will they show the goat?)))

[Prisoner]

Grow the thunderbolt. Do not intend to endure, but be patient.

[jonht]

In my opinion, there (FSA) there are no adequate politicians for a long time, and it's useless to negotiate with a rag-tag ...

[knn54]

I remembered something anecdote:
"The gop comes up.
- Well, man, do you honor the Holy Scripture?
- Wha ...
Hit him on the face!
- And what does it say next?
- "Hit on one cheek - turn the other." - And turns
face with another hemisphere.
Crack!
- And now what?
A hefty fellow about two meters in height rises from the bench,
about a meter and a half at the shoulders and calmly says:
- But about the third cheek in the Scriptures nothing is said "...

[zwlad]

Well d @ beels! (FROM)

[Prisoner]

"Conversations, conversations,
Word for word stretches.
Conversations will subside soon
And "love" will remain ... "

[O. Bender]

The new virus "and we for sho ???" has penetrated a puddle. Vaccinations are urgently needed, from UA and Europe, to the Texas suburbs. Here he is a zombie apocalypse.

[rocket757]

White House threatened Russia with "frank conversation" over retaliatory sanctions

... "Sheriff" does not understand what the "Indians" are not happy with?
Everything is standard.

[hagen]

The retaliatory measures introduced by Moscow, apparently, were not expected by Washington, the administration of Joe Biden has not yet understood, but for what?

For what - they perfectly understand. They cannot understand - how dare they ?!

[HAM]

Russia needs to arrange a "show flogging" for at least one of the small "Tobaccos": if you want to get out of BRELL, turn off the power, if you do not want "undemocratic gas", turn off the tap, tired of the railway, remove transit altogether ..... rhetoric will change quickly. ..
Russia will not lose much because of the small "Tabaka", and the clarity for others will calm some stubborn ones ... having trained "on cats", you can talk to their boss ..

[prior]

In order for Russia to answer in this way, the power in Russia needs to be changed.

[However, dear]

[media = https: //www.vesti.ru/finance/article/2556591]

[Nyrobsky]

We ourselves spoiled the mattresses, when over the years, to their blatant nonsense and rudeness, we responded with attempts to negotiate and smooth over sharp corners so as not to put the "hegemon" in an awkward position in front of his sixes.
Against the background of the fact that quite recently, at the summit in Canada, mattresses publicly received a loud slap from the Chinese, the "hegemon" finally snatched a splash from Russia, which makes the sixes think that their "boss" is not so great as it seems. At the same time, the "boss" himself continues to blunt mercilessly and does everything possible to lose the remnants of his authority.

[Baloo]

White House threatened Russia with "frank conversation" over retaliatory sanctions

that is, they admit that they are always trying to approach Russia from behind, and now they also threaten to use it as a dog from below? Russia is not a mongrel like Tribals or Gayropes. They don't know anything about our secret weapon yet.

[Gar]

The United States has threatened Russia with "frank talk" about Moscow's retaliation for US sanctions ...
And we really refused to have a heart-to-heart talk with the Americans. You can talk honestly, frankly, openly. Let them come to us, we do not mind, and they will take Zeleny with them.

[north 2]

retaliatory sanctions on America, that's good! But very harsh sanctions are also required on Russia and these mongrels in Europe, who are all shit and shit on Russia. Russian sanctions on these jackals should be such that these jackals would howl. Then these mongrels will begin to beg Washington to weaken the sanctions on Russia, because as a result they, the jackals, Washington's vassals, will die. What, Russia does not have sanction levers to howl Ukraine, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and the Czech Republic and Poland? There are, and some more, and it's time to apply them in full, so to speak, with a large pitch of the coarse screw thread ...

[Until Ger]

They will howl ...
But if the American sanctions
Japan, South Korea, Taiwan will join ....
They will forbid ... and they can do a lot
prohibit ....
Who will howl in response ...
There is one visitor here
Greenvood wrote that it was uncomfortable
change from a Japanese car
on .... the thundering trough.
And the whole DV and
half of Siberia ...
And household appliances
for many now whose?

[APASUS]

The US will "not hesitate" to impose new restrictions on Russia for actions it considers "unacceptable."

In the US, they themselves understand that Biden's actions can lead to conflict and no longer on paper

[Sedoi zmei]

I didn't get it! Do they still consider themselves "exceptional"? Whom no one dares to answer? Well, then Russia needs to bring them to their senses as often as possible! And then the guys live cut off from reality! ))

[Pilat2009]

Quote: Sedoi Zmei

I didn't get it! Do they still consider themselves "exceptional"? Whom no one dares to answer? Well, then Russia needs to bring them to their senses as often as possible! And then the guys live cut off from reality! ))

And Russia has something to answer? All these pathetic retaliatory sanctions do not affect the US economy in any way. These are just measures to "save face."

[Sedoi zmei]

Disconnecting Russia from swift is the West's attempt to "save face"! )) Russia is working on a plan to abandon Western payment systems in order to exclude another lever of pressure on its economy! Naturally "there" they found out about it! And they want to present the matter in such a way that it was the West that disconnected Russia from these systems! And not Russia refused them ...))

[Oleg Aviator]

There is simply no limit to the insolence of mattresses) well, do not pay attention to their threats and do your job. Once you get nervous, then the direction is correct.

[Dizel200]

Will Kuzkin's mother show us?

[rotmistr60]

The White House has threatened Russia ...

Have we heard anything else from the United States in recent years? If you collect all the threats from the Americans and publish, then probably at least 2 volumes will turn out. The threat to Russia has become like a good morning in a normal family.

[betta]

That's how wars start. It is not yet clear how this will be settled if one side wants war (not necessarily with its direct participation).

[tralflot1832]

It seems that on the first floor of the US Embassy in Moscow, the good from the toilets flooded, since the exceptional were so excited. I see no other reason!

[George Koval]

We ourselves have tamed the pundoco to the fact that in response we only promise sanctions, but we do not.

[aszzz888]

Why doesn't Moscow impose sanctions on states whose actions against Russia are unacceptable?

Moreover, the Merikatos are reasonably ranked first in the list of countries unfriendly to us. Now let Sharkhan get used to the fact that his tail might be set on fire too.

[xorek]

Quote: aszzz888

Moreover, the Merikatos are reasonably ranked first in the list of countries unfriendly to us. Now let Sharkhan get used to the fact that his tail might be set on fire too.

And we know who is in charge of all these conflicts and where the hornet's nest is the main thing!
This time, our brains in Russia are not zapudry Sheriff! ..We know where to beat.

[aszzz888]

ork
Yesterday, 20: 26

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Quote: aszzz888
Moreover, the Merikatos are reasonably ranked first in the list of countries unfriendly to us. Now let Sharkhan get used to the fact that his tail might be set on fire too.

And we know who is in charge of all these conflicts and where the hornet's nest is the main thing!
This time, our brains in Russia are not zapudry Sheriff! ..We know where to beat.

Totally agree!

[Nitarius]

ahh .. found our weak point .. how they began to expel all their AUDITORS! .. entrenched in our power!

[musorg]

However, there are more sick people, apparently Covid gives such complications to the head!

[Mikhail3]

That is, there will be an escalation. To what level, I wonder? Americans do not know much about politics. Like all people who have never received a full blast on the nose, the American state considers itself immortal and invulnerable. Like a dumb teenager. Alas, this teenager with the atomic bomb.
How to shove him in the snout without setting the world on fire? But it is necessary to push, the idiot clearly does not understand another language. Yes, physicists have postponed all-out war. In return, an insane "ruler of the universe" fell on our necks. Lest the actions of the Americans become worse than an atomic war ...

[Fantazer911]

This greyhound reminds only one thing, but what for us? American idiocy, it is necessary to introduce a new slogan, we will speak frankly with Russia, but what for us! That's it, my jaw dropped from the insolence of the United States!

[iouris]

The United States and the British are absolutely not afraid of retaliation from the Russian Federation. And who is obliged to scare them under the constitution?

[Aleksandr97]

Special! Another interesting tweet on 21.04.2021/XNUMX/XNUMX to the US Strategic Command Report on the State of the Armed Forces was preceded by a tweet published a few minutes before midnight. “The spectrum of conflicts today is neither linear nor predictable. We must consider the likelihood of conflict leading to conditions that can very quickly forcing the enemy to consider the use of nuclear weapons as the least bad option"- said in this tweet. Either they identify themselves with the inhabitants of a parallel reality, or they have already dropped out of all realities

[TatarinSSSR]

Excuse me, I alone did not see in this article a single specific name of a "high-ranking official" who said this and expressed this and that? What a hurray for a patriotic article about nothing.

[7 poplar]

but haven't the mattress covers gone too far ???

[xorek]

Quote: poplar 7

but haven't the mattress covers gone too far ???

Far away, but they are afraid to cross the red line .. Russia is not the same as in the 90s And it can give bloody splashes to the whole world in a slurp

[Pushkar]

Another one "and we have something for what."

[sgr291158]

Yes, Washington may be dissatisfied a hundred times. It's time to understand, your time has passed to dictate terms to us.

[Zaurbek]

What arguments did they have? The Kremlin can complicate life in hot spots where their troops are located .... for example.

[Basarev]

In general, it is stupid to apply conventional approaches to the United States. The States are a superpower, you cannot forbid them. It was for strategic permissiveness that they fought in the Cold War, precisely for the right to arbitrariness. That is, the States are in their own right. The states can, Russia is not allowed. And the United States has the right to punish any manifestation of disloyalty, any steps against itself. For such is the unipolar world. I myself don't like this state of affairs, but intellectually I understand that this is fair. The States won the Cold War honestly, they deserve the right not to report to anyone and do whatever they want.