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2018-03-18 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
US to forbid Russia from selling S-400 air defense systems to other countries
[ALMASDARNEWS] A caucus of American politicians led by one Senator Bob Menendez have sent an official request to the US Department of State recommending sanction measures against Russia for any future sale of high-end S-400 air defense systems to other countries.

The policy initiative has pointed to a technicality in the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (2017) arguing that the sale of strategic game-changing weapons (such as the S-400) by countries like Russia to other nations can be met with sanction action as a form of punishment.

The development comes as the armed forces of Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
 and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
 (hiterto exclusive buyers of Western military equipment) are in talks with Russia for the purchase of S-400 systems.

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar aside, the sale of S-400s to traditional buyers of Russian military hardware like China and India also now serves to provoke US concerns and the need by certain authorities in Washington to want to impose some kind of punishment.
Posted by Fred 2018-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Not that I object in principle - but whatever happened to "don't make demands you can't enforce"?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-18 03:50||   2018-03-18 03:50|| Front Page Top

#2 It's Bob Manendez and more meaningless Democratic Kabuki theater.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-18 04:01||   2018-03-18 04:01|| Front Page Top

#3 They're stealing our customers!

Bob Menenedez and his buddies work for the military-industrial complex.
Posted by  Herb McCoy7309 2018-03-18 04:09||   2018-03-18 04:09|| Front Page Top

#4 "And the 1980’s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back — because the Cold War has been over for 20 years." Obama to Romney, 2012
This reminds me of the shameless Leftist U-Turn when the Nazis invaded Soviet Russia...
Posted by magpie 2018-03-18 10:13||   2018-03-18 10:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Is the State Department trying to get the ruskies to sell more and at a higher price?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-03-18 10:26||   2018-03-18 10:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Hey Menendez, you just missed a long term in the big house breaking rocks by the skin of your teeth. Stop and consider how lunatic you are sounding.
Posted by 3dc 2018-03-18 10:51||   2018-03-18 10:51|| Front Page Top

#7 #1 "don't make demands you can't enforce"?

Yes. Unless you are willing to go to war, such sanctions are unenforceable. Even if you do go to war, they might not be enforceable without being extremely costly to everyone.
Posted by JohnQC 2018-03-18 11:12||   2018-03-18 11:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Or.... they know we can hack and jam these things and they want countries to believe they are awesome and buy more!!!

Hey, a guy can dream can't he?
Posted by DarthVader 2018-03-18 11:21||   2018-03-18 11:21|| Front Page Top

#9  A caucus of American politicians led by one Senator Bob Menendez

The headline is a bit misleading. Not only is it not the US government, it is not even the adults in the room.
Posted by SteveS 2018-03-18 11:47||   2018-03-18 11:47|| Front Page Top

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