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Monday, March 1st, 2021
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| 2:14a | did not want to upset the mafia https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-navalny-p On September 8, six days after Germany’s chancellor publicly accused Russia of nearly killing Aleksei Navalny with a powerful Soviet-era nerve agent, two U.S. lawmakers wrote to President Donald Trump. “This request triggers a required 60-day evaluation period,” the top Democrat and top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote, “and then, if a determination is made that chemical weapons were used, a sanctions process is laid out under the Act” -- a reference to a 1991 law informally known as the Chemical and Biological Weapons (CBW) Act. “If the Russian government is once again determined to have used a chemical weapon against one of its own nationals, additional sanctions should be imposed,” they wrote. On November 8, the day that the 60-day window expired, there was silence from the U.S. government. A month later, a follow-up letter was sent by the same lawmakers. As of January 20, when Trump’s presidency ended, there was still no word from the U.S. government about compliance with the law. The question about what the Trump administration did -- or did not do -- regarding an event that many U.S. and European experts say constituted an attack with a secret chemical weapon is one of the less-examined mysteries of the administration’s waning days. Current and former officials, arms control experts, and congressional officials point to a variety of explanations -- ranging from negligence to interagency bureaucratic wrangling to distraction due to the bitter U.S. presidential election campaign. Others offer a more troublesome theory: The Trump White House did not want to upset the Kremlin. https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/_c Current Mood:  sleepyCurrent Music: Foals -- Antidotes (2009) |
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