China is certainly an awkward bedfellow for the EU. But the US cannot set itself up as a moral arbiter after a year of social unrest and a very messy election.
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Russia hack confronts Trump with decision that echoes Obama s
Nick Wadhams, Bloomberg
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The Kremlin in Moscow on Dec. 11, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Andrey Rudakov.
A massive hack on the federal government presents President Donald Trump with the same choice Barack Obama faced in the waning days of his tenure: whether to impose sanctions on Russia, and how severe to make them. So far, Trump has shown little willingness to impose costs.
Confronted with evidence that Vladimir Putin s government orchestrated cyberattacks aimed at interfering with the 2016 election, Obama levied sanctions against Russia s intelligence services and expelled 35 diplomats.
Now, it s Trump s turn to decide whether to call out and punish the Kremlin, as Obama did, or go easy on the Russian president and leave it to President-elect Joe Biden to formulate a response to a hack so serious it prompted National Security Advisor Robert O Brien to cut short an overseas trip and return to overse
Russian President Vladimir Putin with U.S. President Barack Obama during a UN conference on climate change, November 30, 2015. About two weeks later, Obama said the U.S. would retaliate after the White House accused Putin of direct involvement in cyberattacks designed to influence the U.S. election. Photo by MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/AFP via Getty Images
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A massive hack on the federal government presents President Donald Trump with the same choice Barack Obama faced in the waning days of his tenure: whether to impose sanctions on Russia, and how severe to make them. So far, Trump has shown little willingness to impose costs.