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Far. in terms of the sanctions discussions, we are alljust feeling a bit tired of hearing the same arguments over and over. compare the numbers. you just said that £1 billion of weapons would be sent to ukraine by the uk. the eu is sending one billion euros to russia every day for oil and gas to russia. even after this attack today, even as we uncover the number of victims of russian tortures, rapes, murders in bucha, the eu are still claiming they simply cannot give up on russian gas and they ...

If russia invaded ukraine. reporters pressed him on it, and he simply refused to answer that question directly, and so vladimir putin had good reason to wonder if the pipeline was really in play. and then today, even before president biden announced his first set of sanctions against russia, germany announced that their first sanction package against russia includes not certifying the nord stream 2 pipeline. germany was publicly very reluctant to include the pipeline in sanctions discussions. jo...

Some sanction proofing for putin as well. they are big trading partners on energy, technology, and this will only continue to grow. i think the sanctions discussions means we are almost no where. and a lot of people were surprised when the president came out today and said that he believes that the sanctions are severe and as powerful as tanks and missiles and bullets. congresswoman democrat from michigan tweeted the following "congress has a role in the coming days. we need to finalize a packag...

U.s./russia relations, even sanctions specifically. it would be a little awkward. questions would be raised, but it wouldnt be that weird. nevertheless, he lied about it publicly and he lied about it to the fbi, and that honestly makes no sense if they were innocent policy discussions about sanctions and he is the incoming adviser who is going to be working on that stuff. you wouldnt need to keep that stuff secret. you wouldnt even need to try to keep it secret, unless perhaps those sanctions di...

Actually, flynn lied to the fbi. frankly, why did mike flynn lie at all about his contacts with the russian government about sanctions? he is the incoming national security adviser. it wouldnt be that weird for flynn to be talking to a foreign government about an expected change in policy under the trump administration when it came to u.s./russia relations, even sanctions specifically. it would be a little awkward. questions would be raised, but it wouldnt be that weird. nevertheless, he lied ab...

The reason i raise that possibility and the reason i think this is important, as we head into the sentencing portion of mike flynns life is that it wasnt just mike flynn who lied about those sanctions discussions. its troubling and interesting and intriguing enough that flynn was lying about those discussions with russia, but it wasnt just him. as flynn is about to be sentenced, i think maybe this is the most important part. this time last year, "the new york times" reported on e-mails that were...

Trumps secret business dealings with russia, which would have benefited from the dropping of russian sanctions? if so, russia presumably knew about all of that, too. is that why those sanctions discussions were kept secret? i mean, according to open source reporting, flynn is tied up in all these different elements of inchrissy tiegen involving russia and its interference in our election, counter intelligence worries about russia, running operations inside our country to compromise senior member...

Russia. because its part of their deal. because sanctions and a huge financial deal for trump and lying publicly about the deal for trump and lying about contacts with the russian government, its all one thing. and it may have even all been run by the same guy, dmitry peskov, in the russian government. and so, on tuesday, mike flynn will be in court, and we will learn what robert mueller has come to know in his dealings with mike flynn since flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi about sanctions ...

Court. and we will learn what robert mueller has come to know in his dealings with flynn since he plead a year ago. right before mike flynn comes to court we finally learned the biggest mystery about the case against him, why he bothered to lie about the sanctions discussions in the first place. it wouldnt have needed to be surreptitious if it was just about sanctions alone. but mike flynn and his deputy k.t. mcfarland and the president himself we now know they were all compromised by russia at ...