Commenting on the significant expansion of U.S. sanctions against Russian individuals and legal entities, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov pointed out that this decision prevents Moscow from continuing a dialog with Washington.
According to him, it is disquieting that this step, motivated by domestic political consideration in the United States, pursues the same path of destroying relations between the two countries, which was taken by the Obama regime.
"Regrettably, the new American leadership is taking its cue from inveterate Russophobes in U.S. Congress, which simply ran out of ideas of annoying us and, most importantly, obliterating any prospects for recovering balance in Russia-U.S. relations," stated Mr. Ryabkov.
Paul Craig Roberts, chairman of the Institute for Political Economy, wrote that U.S. president Trump, being in real estate and entertainment, was unaware of the landmines he was stepping on when he said it was time to normalize relations with Russia and to rethink the purpose of NATO. The U.S. military/security complex sits on a budget extracted from very hard-pressed American taxpayers of $1,000 billion annually. By threatening to normalize relations with the enemy, which was created in order to justify this vast budget, Trump presented as the major threat to the American National Security State's power and profit.
It is important to note that the budget for the U.S. military/security complex is the largest in the world. It includes not only the Pentagon's budget but also the budget of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies and the Department of Energy, which is the location of the Oak Ridge nuclear weapons plant and 16 other laboratories.
At present, analysts think Trump is clueless about what he is doing in the White House and is being advised by a cacophonous coterie of amateurs and nincompoops. So, he has no action plan except to impulsively reach for his Twitter account.
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