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Russia Warns Of \u2018Precise And Painful\u2019 Response To Any Future US Sanctions<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Russia is continuing to warn the West of further attacks against Russia. Whether it be in the form of missiles or sanctions, the former Soviet Union doesn\u2019t seem like they wish to play \u201cwar games\u201d any longer.<\/p>\n

The United States this month added several Russian firms and officials to a sanctions blacklis<\/a>t in response to what it said were the Kremlin\u2019s \u201cmalign activities.\u201d Moscow says those sanctions are unlawful and has warned that it will retaliate in a \u201cpainful\u201d manner.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one should be under any illusions,\u201d said Valentina Matvienko, who is closely aligned with the Kremlin, was quoted as saying by the Interfax News Agency.<\/em><\/a>Matvienko, the speaker of the Russian upper house of parliament, said on Wednesday that Moscow\u2019s response to any United States sanctions will be targeted and painful, Russian news agencies reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia\u2019s response to the sanctions, our so-called counter-sanctions, will be precise, painful, and without question sensitive for exactly those countries that imposed them [the sanctions] on Russia<\/strong>,\u201d she was quoted as saying, according to Reuters.\u00a0<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cSanctions are a double-edged sword and those who impose them should understand that sanctions against countries, especially those like Russia, will carry with them risks of serious consequences for those who impose them,\u201d Matvienko added.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers in the lower house of the Russian parliament have drawn up legislation<\/a>that would give the government powers to ban or restrict imports of U.S. goods and services ranging from medicines to software and rocket engines. However, the Kremlin has not yet said if it backs such measures.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned the joint U.S., French, and British military operation last weekend that struck several sites in Syria to punish the Russian-backed government of President Bashar Assad<\/a> for an apparent chemical attack that killed civilians. Trump said the strike was \u201cabsolute precision.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Russia Warns Of \u2018Precise And Painful\u2019 Response To Any Future US Sanctions Russia is continuing to warn the West of further attacks against Russia. Whether it be in the form of missiles or sanctions, the former Soviet Union doesn\u2019t seem like they wish to play \u201cwar games\u201d any longer. The United States this month added […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[471,542,683,694,1109,742,827,965],"class_list":["post-33571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-kremlin","tag-moscow","tag-reuters","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-soviet-union","tag-united-states","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33572,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33571\/revisions\/33572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}