{"id":13188,"date":"2021-04-21T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13188"},"modified":"2021-04-20T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:13:48","slug":"did-biden-blink-on-russia-limited-sanctions-and-no-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/did-biden-blink-on-russia-limited-sanctions-and-no-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Biden blink on Russia? Limited sanctions and no summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. media initially burst out in applause at the \u201csweeping<\/a>\u201d and \u201ctough<\/a>\u201d sanctions the Biden administration\u00a0imposed<\/a>\u00a0on Russia on April 15 under the title of \u201cImposing Costs for Harmful Foreign Activities by the Russian Government.\u201d Targeted are activities that \u201cundermine security in countries and regions important to United States national security; and violate well-established principles of international law, including respect for the territorial integrity of states\u201d (meaning Ukraine).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden justifications for the sanctions are the presumed Russian interference in the 2020 elections, Russia\u2019s hacking and cyberwarfare, the disinformation activities of the Russian military, and other hostile acts not enumerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One additional sanction justification has been dropped, embarrassingly, at the last minute. The U.S. intelligence community can no longer assert with sufficient certainty that Russian forces offered rewards<\/a> to Taliban fighters for killing U.S. soldiers. The sanctions document declares: \u201cGiven the sensitivity of this matter, which involves the safety and well-being of our forces, it is being handled through diplomatic, military and intelligence channels.\u201d In other words, \u201cNever mind\u201d \u2014 although these supposed Russian rewards played a substantial role in the 2020 election campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden sanctions also prohibit U.S. financial markets from dealing with primary issues of Russian sovereign debt. This action will raise the cost of public finance to the Russian state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill The U.S. media initially burst out in applause at the \u201csweeping\u201d and \u201ctough\u201d sanctions the Biden administration\u00a0imposed\u00a0on Russia on April 15 under the title of \u201cImposing Costs for Harmful Foreign Activities by the Russian Government.\u201d Targeted are activities that \u201cundermine security in countries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3qI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12917,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/do-bidens-tough-new-sanctions-give-putin-nord-stream-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":13188,"position":0},"title":"Do Biden’s ‘tough new sanctions’ give Putin Nord Stream 2?","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"An article by my Hoover colleague Dr. Paul Gregory in The Hill Western\u00a0media\u00a0is greeting the Biden administration\u2019s Russian sanctions as \u201csignaling a tougher stance on Russia than under former President Donald Trump.\u201d\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0likely thinks otherwise. 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