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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS OFFICIAL: New Sanctions Will Target Russia's Defense Industry And Putin's Inner Circle
US OFFICIAL: New Sanctions Will Target Russia's Defense Industry And Putin's Inner CircleAgence France Presse
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-sanctions-against-russia-and-putin-2014-4
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The next round of US sanctions against Moscow over Ukraine will target Russia's defense industry as well as individuals and companies close to President Vladimir Putin, a senior US official said Sunday.
"Starting this week, in coordination with our allies and partners, we'll be exerting additional pressure on the people closest to him, the companies they control, the defense industry. All of this," deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken said on CNN's State of the Union.
In a separate interview with CBS's "Face the Nation," Blinken said high technology exports to the Russian defense industry would be affected.
President Barack Obama said earlier Sunday the sanctions being drawn up by G7 countries were a punishment for Moscow's "provocation" in eastern Ukraine.
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US OFFICIAL: New Sanctions Will Target Russia's Defense Industry And Putin's Inner Circle (Original Post)
applegrove
Apr 2014
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Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)1. What.....?
In what way are we supporting Russia's defense industry, and why were we doing it to begin with?
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)2. Are we going to stop buying large rocket engines from them?
How will we launch military satellites?
former9thward
(32,016 posts)3. Will they sanction our astronauts?
We depend on Russia to ferry them to and from the space station.
bananas
(27,509 posts)4. This is the new version of "Star Wars". nt
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)5. Pissing contests, especially nuclear ones, are soooo entertaining.
applegrove
(118,675 posts)6. It isn't a pissing contest. Putin is the aggressor.
The object is to make it so expensive for Putin that he goes back to wrestling bears and doing torso shots to fullfill his ego instead of reconstituting the USSR.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)7. At the risk of war?
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)8. A lot of Russia's defense industry is in eastern Ukraine /nt