Currently the omission looks like it's a message being sent from Russia: > Hey look, we write US policy, don't mess with Russia or we'll have the US mess with

Currently the omission looks like it's a message being sent from Russia: > Hey look, we write US policy, don't mess with Russia or we'll have the US mess with you. If that's not the case, why not take the zero-cost step to avoid making it look like that's what it is?