The following article by Caroline Orr was posted on the ShareBlue.com website August 11, 2018:
Russian officials have clearly figured out how to use Trump’s vulnerabilities against him.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not happy about the new sanctions imposed by the U.S. this week, and his cronies are using one of the Kremlin’s most popular state-run media programs to get the message across to Trump.
Investigative reporter and Russian media analyst Julia Davis reported Friday that Russian state TV devoted an entire panel on a news program this week to a discussion about how Russia should retaliate against the U.S. for the new sanctions, which were imposed in response to the Kremlin’s involvement in the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter earlier this year in Salisbury, U.K.
The assassination attempt on Skripal was carried out using the nerve gas Novichok, which violated the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act, and as a result, triggered the mandatory enforcement of new sanctions.