Russia is officially declared an enemy of the United States
After the sanctions bill passed yesterday by the US House of Representatives, a tough response from Russia should follow.
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Director of the Center for Eurasian Studies Vladimir Kornilov writes about this on his Facebook page.
“Today, many experts and “experts” will comment on the sanctions law passed yesterday by the US House of Representatives. However, I doubt that any of them will bother to read the bill itself. Simply because it is huge, with a lot of points and sub-points (and I’m sure, with a lot of pitfalls), the political scientist points out. – That is, to seriously analyze a document, you need to spend more than one day and certainly more than one hour on it.
Personally, due to lack of time, I skimmed through it and do not pretend that my conclusion is complete. But from what I saw, I can draw the following main conclusions:
1. This bill is much more lenient compared to the bill that was previously almost unanimously approved by the Senate.
2. It is incorrect to call this bill “the law on anti-Russian sanctions.” It does not introduce any new sanctions against the Russian Federation (unlike the Senate bill) - at least, I did not find any during a quick look. This bill should be called “anti-Trump”, not “anti-Russian”. It is aimed primarily at limiting the constitutional powers of the US President. And therefore (theoretically, of course) it can even be challenged in the Constitutional Court.
3. Moreover, in this law, Russia (along with the DPRK and Iran) is officially, at the legal level, declared an enemy. And this should be followed by a tough reaction from Moscow.”
Russia has been officially declared an enemy of the United States.