Biden to Hit Putin With Russia Sanctions After Summit Offer

[DonViejo]

By Alberto Nardelli, Nick Wadhams, and Jennifer Jacobs

April 14, 2021, 8:33 PM EDT Updated on April 15, 2021, 8:03 AM EDT

Moves coming as soon as Thursday, days after Biden-Putin call

U.S. to target individuals, further plans to include debt

The Biden administration is poised to impose a raft of new sanctions on Russia, including long-feared restrictions on buying new sovereign debt, in retaliation for alleged misconduct including the SolarWinds hack and efforts to disrupt the U.S. election.

Russian bonds fell and the ruble dropped the most since December on the news.

“What President Biden is going to announce today, we believe, are proportionate measures to defend American interests in response to harmful Russian actions, including cyber intrusions and election interference,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told CNN early Thursday. “His goal is to provide a significant and credible response but not to escalate the situation.”

The sanctions reflect an attempt by the U.S. to balance the desire to punish the Kremlin for past misdeeds but also to limit the further worsening of the relationship, especially as tensions grow over a Russian military buildup near Ukraine.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-15/u-s-poised-to-impose-russia-sanctions-over-election-solarwinds

[dalton99a]

1. Putin must pay for what he's doing to our country.

[Botany]

3. QAnon received earlier boost from Russian accounts on Twitter, archives show

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-qanon-cyber/qanon-received-earlier-boost-from-russian-accounts-on-twitter-archives-show-idUSKBN27I18I

[dalton99a]

4. +1

From November 2017 on, QAnon was the single most frequent hashtag tweeted by accounts that Twitter has since identified as Russian-backed, a Reuters analysis of the archive shows, with the term used some 17,000 times.

The archives contain more than 4,000 accounts that Twitter suspended for spreading Russian government disinformation in 2018 and 2019 but preserved for researchers.

The trove shows that some of the Russian accounts tweeted about QAnon’s most important popularizer even before the anonymous figure known as Q emerged, then rewarded her with more promotion when she put videos about Q on YouTube.

[Botany]

6. In 2020 Russian disinformation got a bunch of bubbas with beer guts and ARs to turn out in KY and

... Central PA to turn out to "fight" what they had read about online as coming BLM attacks.
In KY they were ready to fight for a monument to rebel soldiers who they had heard was
going to be attacked by BLM/ANTIFA folks coming down the OH river on a barge and in Central
PA they were ready to fight the BLM members who were hiding out in the hills and woods around
the little town because they wanted to burn down the county courthouse.

[dalton99a]

7. Yep, there was a coordinated campaign:

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/hundreds-of-armed-men-went-to-gettysburg-to-defend-it-from-a-phantom-antifa-flag-burner-created-on-social-media/2020/07/04/206ee4da-bb05-11ea-86d5-3b9b3863273b_story.html

Militias flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent hoax created on social media
By Shawn Boburg and Dalton Bennett
July 4, 2020 at 8:58 p.m. CDT





GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK, Pa. — For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence Day to burn American flags, an event that seemed at times to border on the farcical.

“Let’s get together and burn flags in protest of thugs and animals in blue,” the anonymous person behind a Facebook page called Left Behind USA wrote in mid-June. There would be antifa face paint, the person wrote, and organizers would “be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.”

As word spread, self-proclaimed militias, bikers, skinheads and far-right groups from outside the state issued a call to action, pledging in online videos and posts to come to Gettysburg to protect the Civil War monuments and the nation’s flag from desecration. Some said they would bring firearms and use force if necessary.

On Saturday afternoon, in the hours before the flag burning was to start, they flooded in by the hundreds — heavily armed and unaware, it seemed, that the mysterious Internet poster was not who the person claimed to be.

Biographical details — some from the person’s Facebook page and others provided to The Washington Post in a series of messages — did not match official records. An image the person once posted on a profile page was a picture of a man taken by a German photographer for a stock photo service.

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[llashram]

9. gullible, dangerous

treasonous FOOLS! And 1/6/2021 proved it. It is the second Confederacy, warming insurrection mentality that has been created by trump and deadly individuals from the prior administration in Congress and out.

[Botany]

10. American flags and the Stars and Bars(confederate battle flag) on the same bike and at Gettysburg?

So much stupid, racist hate, and un-American thought in one person.

People like that turd are very easy for Putin/Russia to manipulate through social media and
hate talk tadio/tv.

[lagomorph777]

11. Yup - we need to make him suffer real consequences for attacks on our democracy.

[Botany]

2. Russia has continued to act as an enemy of America with their disinformation campaigns

They have been helping to spread that QAnon crap, getting the anti maskers and the anti vaccine people
all upset, posting fake shit about ANTIFA/BLM, and no doubt pushing the election was stolen from Trump
by Joe Biden memes. I think they (the russians) have a pipeline into Fox News and are whipping up shit
through right wing "think tanks" such as the Heterodox Academy.

I hope President Biden drops the hammer on them.

[Lovie777]

5. Antifa is the designated name that Treason Bill Barr attached to . . .

the overall peaceful protests by non crazy people. Majority of the shithole's administration were agreeable with Russia alongwith many in the republican party.

Let's see if Putin is man enough to come to the summit and do a one on one with Pres. Biden. Now that would be quite interesting.

[llashram]

8. seeing as

Putin tried to swing the election in his puppets favour because he had trump on strings trying to do his bidding. And that Putin is still trying to undermine our society which he has done with 70million trump voters. Can one feel China thinks we are weakened by Putin's puppet and are working in concert with Russia to test our resolve on Taiwan?

Big big mistake.

[Botany]

12. In the winter of 2020 our intel caught the Russians trying to help Bernie in the primaries ....

.... and what did Trump do? Get after the Russians? No. He fired the intel people who
caught the problem and briefed Congress.