The United States Joins Globalists in Sanctioning Russia

Mar 17, 2019

Trump’s America First foreign policy continues to take a nosedive as the U.S. government recently sanctioned Russian individuals and entities involved in Ukraine.

The sanctions were applied to six individuals and eight companies that were allegedly involved in an attack “on three Ukrainian naval vessels near the Kerch Strait.”

American sanctions accompanied sanctions taken by the EU and Canada to counter Russia’s actions in Crimea and its support for separatist movements in Eastern Ukraine.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced, “The United States and our transatlantic partners will not allow Russia’s continued aggression against Ukraine to go unchecked. This joint initiative with our partners in the European Union and Canada reinforces our shared commitment to impose targeted and meaningful sanctions in response to the Kremlin’s attempts to disregard international norms and undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

Russia has continued to intervene in Ukrainian affairs five years after its invasion and its annexation attempt in Crimea. On November 25, 2018, Russian forces attacked 3 Ukrainian ships off the Crimean coast, seizing them and capturing 24 Ukrainian crew members.

Russia continues to occupy Crimea, while it has backed elections in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic on November 11, 2018, which have been deemed illegitimate by the international community.

ZeroHedge reports:

As a result of today’s designations, all property and interests in property of the designated individuals and entities are blocked, and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from transacting with them. Moreover, any entities owned 50 percent or more by these designated persons are also blocked by operation of law.

The individuals targeted include:

1. Gennadiy Medvedev, Deputy Director of the Border Guard Service of Russia’s Federal Security Service
2. Sergey Stankevich, Head of the Border Directorate of Russia’s Federal Security Service
3. Andrey Shein, Deputy Head of the Border Directorate and Head of the Coast Guard Unit of Russia’s Federal Security Service
4. Ruslan Romashkin, the Head of the Service Command Point of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol.
5. Aleksey Alekseevich Naydenko is the Deputy Chair of the Central Election Commission of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic
6. Vladimir Yurievich Vysotsky is the Secretary of Central Election Commission of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic

The companies targeted include:

Yaroslavsky Shipbuilding Plant
Zelenodolsk Shipyard Plant
AO Kontsern Okeanpribor (Okeanpribor)
PAO Zvezda (Zvezda)
AO Zavod Fiolent (Fiolent)
GUP RK KTB Sudokompozit (Sudokompozit)
LLC SK Consol-Stroi LTD
LLC Novye Proekty

More and more, it appears that foreign policy powers that be still hold considerable sway in the Trump administration.

Indeed, changes in D.C. won’t happen overnight. However, it’s disheartening to see many of the same faces of previous neocon administrations like John Bolton try to continue getting the U.S. indirectly or directly involved in foreign entanglements.