Because all we hear from the left and the media is that Trump is in Putin’s back pocket and that he’s beholden to Russia. Yet all Trump actually does in the realm of policy and governance is cause problems for Russia. He’s selling weapons to Ukraine. He’s attacking Russia’s natural gas deals with Europe. He’s flooding international markets with U.S. oil.

And now Trump has slapped sanctions on Russia for its role in a nerve agent attack against a Russian dissident in the UK:

Sergei Skripal, a former colonel in Russia’s GRU military intelligence service, and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, were found slumped unconscious on a bench in the southern English city of Salisbury in March after a liquid form of the Novichok type of nerve agent was applied to his home’s front door.

European countries and the United States expelled 100 Russian diplomats after the attack, in the strongest action by President Donald Trump against Russia since he came to office.

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said it had been determined that Russia “has used chemical or biological weapons in violation of international law, or has used lethal chemical or biological weapons against its own nationals.”

The sanctions would cover sensitive national-security controlled goods, a senior State Department official told reporters on a conference call, citing the 1991 Chemical and Biological Weapons and Warfare Elimination Act.”

more at https://canadafreepress.com/article/u.s.-smacks-russia-with-sanctions-over-nerve-agent-attack-in-uk