Sentences with phrase «russia retaliated»

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Before Wednesday's escalation with Russia, whose ambassador to Lebanon had earlier suggested Russia would retaliate to any US strike in Syria, the president had been locked in a trade stare down with China for weeks, stoking investor fears of a trade war.

More than 20 countries joined Britain in blaming Russia for the attack, and expelled more than 120 Russian diplomats from their countries to retaliate.

The US could retaliate against Russia in the form of a military offensive, shutting down specific portions of its cyber capabilities or stealing and publishing hacking tools used by Russian intelligence — much like the Russia - linked group the Shadow Brokers did with US cyberweapons in 2016.

Russia has already retaliated in kind against Britain for ejecting 23 diplomats over the first known use of a military - grade nerve agent on European soil since World War Two.

US diplomats assigned to Russia had to be trained by the US government on how to handle the escalating harassment, according to The Post, which was the Kremlin's way of retaliating against US sanctions over Russia's annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014.

Meanwhile there has been a lot of talk that President Obama is reviewing plans to retaliate against Russia's supposed attacks, efforts that were made against the heart of the President's own political party.

Crude prices surged to five - year highs after President Trump vowed to retaliate against Syria for a Chemical Weapons attack and taunted Russia about their threat to shoot down U.S. missiles if they were used against Syria.

This sends the EU an important message: Russia will not tolerate any unwanted interventions in its sphere of influence and that it will retaliate as it considers appropriate.

Since Georgia can not have failed to realise that Russia would oppose a violent reintegration of the secessionist territory, or that the possibility of winning a war with Russia was nil, Saakashvili's confidence that the invasion was still a realistic option could only have stemmed from a belief — resting on the perception of Georgia as an integral part of the Western alliance — that NATO would certainly back him, and the threat of them doing so would be enough to prevent Russia from retaliating.

To retaliate against Azerbaijan's energy deals with the EU, Russia has used its recent improvement in relations with Turkey to undercut Azerbaijan's position as an energy supplier to Europe.

Russia's deputy foreign minister said his country was poised to retaliate aggressively against any new U.S. sanctions on Moscow, adding: «I think retaliation is long, long overdue.

In either case, it appears that Russia decided not to retaliate, tit for tat, so to speak, in order to not escalate the situation in the hopes that, by being relatively docile in their actions, they could maximize the chances of the policies being changed with a new administration and both houses of Congress being the same party as that new administration (and the opposite of Obama's party affiliation).

Even if you don't trigger an immediate nuclear exchange, Russia and China will certainly now have to build up their nuclear arsenals to the point where they can effectively retaliate.

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