The issue from the US side has also been that they're per-se doing it. Otherwise the US Senate wouldn't have imposed sanctions on Russia in (among other things)

The issue from the US side has also been that they're per-se doing it. Otherwise the US Senate wouldn't have imposed sanctions on Russia in (among other things) response to the 2016 election interference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections#Punitive_measures_imposed_on_Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...