Russia Warns It May Sever US Relations Completely If Branded Terrorism Sponsor

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A Russian diplomat has warned that if his country is designated a state sponsor of terrorism, it would not only harm US-Russian relations but could completely sever them. 

He said placing Russia on the US State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism could be a diplomatic “point of no return”and trigger a total breakdown of relations between the two countries.

If that same terror label were attached to every invasion accompanied by alleged war crimes, wouldnt the U.S. government have to designate itself?

Zero Hedge reports: On Friday, Alexander Darchiyev, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s North American department told the TASS news agency: 

“I would like to mention the legislative initiative currently being discussed in Congress to declare Russia a ‘country sponsor of terrorism.’ If passed, it would mean that Washington would have to cross the point of no return, with the most serious collateral damage to bilateral diplomatic relations, up to their lowering or even breaking them off. The US side has been warned.”

Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have been leading an effort to pressure the Biden administration into making the terror designation, which would allow new categories of sanctions. The are only four designated countries today: Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria. 

On July 28, the Senate passed a non-binding resolution calling on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to designate the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism. At the time, Graham said this about a potential designation:

“It means that doing business with Russia with that designation gets to be exceedingly hard – it has secondary effect sanctions, it would limit dual export items, and more importantly it would waive sovereign immunity when it came to suing Russia in U.S. courts. This designation would be a nightmare for Russia.”

Blinken, however, has said a terror designation wouldn’t change things much: “The costs that have been imposed on Russia by us and by other countries are absolutely in line with the consequences that would follow from designation as a state sponsor of terrorism.”

On Thursday, the Latvian parliament made its own terror-sponsor designation of Russia. “Latvia recognizes Russia’s actions in Ukraine as targeted genocide against the Ukrainian people,” declared the legislature’s resolution.  

“A timely move,” tweeted Ukraine foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba. “Russia has long deserved this status with its actions in Ukraine and beyond. Ukraine encourages other states and organizations to follow suit.”  

 

3 Comments

  1. Every media outlet pretends rbey have forgotten that the western alliance has already branded Putin , 300 members of the Duma and the Oligarch’s who support them as War Criminals. All of them are acting like little kids who “forgot” or who don’t understand what that means for the war.
    Evil thrives when people act like that.

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