Friday was flexing day again down at Camp Runamuck. New sanctions against various Russian oligarchs were announced in response to the Russian ratfcking that was so central to the successful Republican campaign in 2016.
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There are some obvious considerations here, the most obvious one being that “imposing” sanctions and “enforcing” sanctions are two distinctly different things. We’re going to have to see if the administration* actually enforces the sanctions it announced on Friday.
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[T]he targets of the sanctions had ample opportunity to bunker their assets against any action taken by this administration. Iran-Contra obsessives refer to this as The Meese Gambit—named after Edwin Meese, Ronald Reagan’s attorney-general, who didn’t blow the whistle on that scandal until he’d given the various miscreants time to get the burn bags full and the shredders operating at top volume. You will have to forgive me if I don’t give the administration* the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Charles P Pierce
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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