“She looked at him and said: ‘They’re (the sanctions) effective at keeping the conversation alive.’ ”
He should not feel so liberated as to make mistakes about this personal security.
There is a reason why Putin and the Crowned Prince of Saudi Arabia smile so largely when together. They have something in common. They kill people that embarrass them.
I think the comment by Pussyriot is well taken. It demonstrates the depth of which USA power effects dialogue, both internationally and within the sovereign borders of other countries adverse to USA national security. It also serves as a measure to insure the dialogues of USA allies. THIS is a part of the USA prowess that escapes Trump in that the words alone, United States of America carries a great deal of power in dialogue most Americans do not know exists.
After all was the death of Sergei Magnitsky all that different than that of Jamal Khashoggi's, absent dismemberment, suitcases and acid? Both were carried out by agents of the government.
“For that he was taken as a healthy 36-year-old, disappeared into Moscow’s notorious pretrial detention system, made sick, refused medical care, and in his final hour or two he is transported to a prison in Moscow that has a medical bay,” Parker said. “But instead of being given help, he’s taken to an isolation cell, he’s chained to a bed, he’s beaten by eight riot guards until he dies. And he’s found in a puddle of his own blood and urine in his jail cell.”
Sergei Magnitsky's death was a lesson to all bankers inside and out of Russia, in that there was a price for fighting Russian corruption. If Russia could not trap others in its net of money laundering, what good are banks?
There is one other common denominator between Russia and Saudi Arabia; oil. The wealth of oil is the vehicle that faciliates the corruption. The age of oil needs to be over for many reasons.
It is imperative USA currency remains strong as well. Think about it before valuing China or crytocurrency. I see Wall Street is struggling today.
December 24, 2018By Colin Woodward
Russian President Vladimir Putin asked President Trump to turn over Kyle Parker for interrogation by Russian prosecutors.
Northport — When Vladimir Putin (click here) met President Trump in Helsinki last July, the Russian president had a special request: Turn over Bangor, Maine native Kyle Parker and at least eight other U.S. officials for interrogation by Russian prosecutors.
Since then, Parker, 43, who grew up in Old Town and graduated in 1999 from the University of Maine, has had to think twice about where he travels overseas, for fear of being detained on a request from Moscow. His offense: being one of the key players behind the Magnitsky Act, a set of sanctions against Russians accused of gross human rights violations passed by Congress in 2012 in response to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a Russian prison. Parker is the chief of staff of the U.S. Helsinki Commission, a congressional agency that monitors human rights abuses.
At some point, he says, a Russian court will likely convict him and the others, making it all but impossible for him to return to a country he’s spent most of his adult life interacting with, and whose language is the mother tongue of his eight children....
