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The United States expelled 35 Russian diplomats and closed two Russian compounds in New York and Maryland in response to a campaign of harassment against American diplomats in Moscow, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday.

The move against the diplomats from the Russian embassy in Washington and consulate in San Francisco is part of a series of actions announced on Thursday to punish Russia for a campaign of intimidation of American diplomats in Moscow and interference in the U.S. election. 

The Obama administration was also announcing on Thursday a series of retaliatory measures against Russia for hacking into U.S. political institutions and individuals and leaking information to help President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, two U.S. officials said.

Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, has called for better relations with Russia. It was not clear if he will be able to immediately overturn the measures announced on Thursday. 

The Russian diplomats would have 72 hours to leave the United States, the official said. Access to the two compounds, which are used by Russian officials for intelligence gathering, will be denied to all Russian officials as of noon on Friday, the senior U.S. official added.

"These actions were taken to respond to Russian harassment of American diplomats and actions by the diplomats that we have assessed to be not consistent with diplomatic practice," the official said.

The State Department has long complained that Russian security agents and traffic police have harassed U.S. diplomats in Moscow, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has raised the issue with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. 

"By imposing costs on the Russian diplomats in the United States, by denying them access to the two facilities, we hope the Russian government reevaluates its own actions, which have impeded the ability and safety of our own embassy personnel in Russia," the official said.

The U.S. official declined to name the Russian diplomats who would be affected, although it is understood that Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak, will not be one of those expelled.

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4 minutes ago, Fearless said:

Damn yeah, which means that Obama's decision is pretty redundant shrug1 

He just seems to be doing as many last minute things as he can that will cause time-consuming road blocks so Trump and his posse have less time to do real damage.

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4 hours ago, QUINN said:

Nah. In a few weeks Trump will be in there licking Russia's ass.

For Trump to lift sanctions he will have to effectively reject the findings. 

Assuming he does reject the findings and lift the sanctions, the GOP will have to decide between backing Trump/Putin or Obama/Clinton/FBI/CIA/DHS. Can't wait to see! 

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“I think we ought to get on with our lives,” he said. “I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly. The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what is going on. We have speed, we have a lot of other things, but I’m not sure we have the kind, the security we need.”

 

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This won't last long. 

The Conservative/Right Wing of American Politics is very much in line with President Putin in terms of Islamic Terrorism/ISIS - and bilateral relations through that alone will be restored. It might be tested when Putin eyes Eastern Europe again, and it'll be interesting to see how Trump and NATO respond to it. Unfortunately for those that disagree with those politics, policies and/or methods - the Conservatives/Right-Wing/Republican own the entire political structure for, at least, the next two years, so there's no stopping it. 

President Obama's Presidency has three weeks left in it, and when President Trump assumes office, he's going to simply reverse all this, along with a lot of things Obama does in his lame duck month. 

Personally I think Clinton still would have lost even if there was Russian interference, which they still haven't told us any details about, apart from hackers in Eastern Europe (which might have been connected to an arm of the Russian FSB) hacking information about Democratic primary from the DNC internal servers and giving them to the Wiki-Leaks guys. Foreign governments have been funneling money and influence into our Federal Elections through a plethora of ways for decades, and even directly since Citizens United, which was ironically created in part thanks to Hillary Clinton. 

 

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For Trump to lift sanctions he will have to effectively reject the findings.  Assuming he does reject the findings and lift the sanctions, the GOP will have to decide between backing Trump/Putin

Nah. In a few weeks Trump will be in there licking Russia's ass.


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