If in Russia. Leave. Look, with the TSA issues becoming a crisis, travelers need to rethink their length of stay and whether or not the travel should occur at all until the Trump crisis ends.
Russia is attempting to carry out retribution for sanctions by The West. Trump is no help. He is illegally lifting sanctions against Russia. I do not believe the Secretary of the Treasury has the right to override legislation. But, that has yet to be decided by the Supreme Court. Additionally, there is more and more leniency in the world for Russia. Ukraine is known, but, Trump is pulling back from any restrictions on Russia's ambitions.
The bottom line is that citizens of The West need to stop being optimistic about communist countries, that means Russia and there needs to be a healthy skepticism about China with growing tensions over the AI technology. It is time to be cautious internationally about travel. The Free World should be celebrated by their citizens and travel where it is known to be welcoming and safe. Basically, Americans need to travel to Canada and Europe and American territories.
The world is becoming too dangerous to be generous about TRUSTING countries that do not deserve to be trusted.
The kidnapping of a Belarus citizen from a Russian airport is still more of the same terror regime of Putin.
January 23, 2019
By Alex Luhn
Investigators (click here) have accused a British citizen held on espionage charges in Russia of receiving a USB stick that contained state secrets, his lawyer has said.
Paul Whelan, 48, believed the USB stick had photographs and other information about a church he had visited, lawyer Vladimir Zherebenkov said. FSB security agents swooped in and seized him before he could see what was on the flash drive, he added.
Russian media previously claimed he was grabbed at the Metropole Hotel near the Kremlin while receiving a USB stick with a list of employees of a state agency, the Daily Telegraph reports.
In the first public appearance since he was detained on December 28, Moscow city court refused an appeal to grant bail to Whelan, leaving him pre-trial confinement in Lefortovo jail until at least the end of February. He faces 10 to 20 years in prison....
