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This is an interesting internal play for US politicians as well -- it strikes me it's probably harder to remove sanctions and reinstate booted intelligence pers
by vessenes 10y ago
This is an interesting internal play for US politicians as well -- it strikes me it's probably harder to remove sanctions and reinstate booted intelligence personnel than it is to choose not to act. I'm curious how the Trump presidency will approach this.
Also in the news today is more strident messaging from Kerry about Israeli settlers -- I wonder if we'll have other moves from the Obama administration before end of term.
- dragonwriter 10y agoIt's technically no more difficult since they are executive actions dependent on determinations that the executive is free to make. It's perhaps politically costly, though, and even if that was equal, only one of the actors has to worry about maintaining political capital.