The
lies are usually about the most important policies and actions of the
United States government regarding international relations — foreign
policy matters, such as wars, treaties, and economic sanctions. In the
past, they were lies about matters such as that North Vietnam had
attacked the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, and that Chile’s
President Salvador Allende opposed democracy, and that Iraq’s President
Saddam Hussein was «six months away from developing a [nuclear] weapon», and that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s «conquest of land» regarding Crimea had happened, and is the basic reason for the economic sanctions the US has placed against Russia.
On August 2nd, US President Donald Trump signed into law increased sanctions against Russia, which had been passed 98-2 in the Senate and 419-3 in the House. This new law stated in Section 211, «Congress makes the following findings» as the basis for greatly hiking the economic sanctions against Russia:
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On January 6, 2017, an assessment of the United States intelligence
community entitled, «Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in
Recent US Elections» stated, «Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered
an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the United States presidential
election». The assessment warns that «Moscow will apply lessons learned
from its Putin-ordered campaign aimed at the US Presidential election to
future influence efforts worldwide, including against US allies and
their election processes».
In other words: because of this alleged hacking of the 2016 US Presidential election, the sanctions that were originally (and entirely falsely) based upon «conquest of land» regarding Crimea, are now being greatly increased.
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