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ArnoldRimmer on 28 March 2018
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SpokenTruth said:
ArnoldRimmer said:

True. But then again, that was a clear retaliation response to an action by Obama:

Shortly before leaving office, Obama ordered to increase tensions with Russia by expelling russian diplomats, effectively reducing the number of russian diplomats in the US to 455.

So the Kremlin did a tit-for-tat response and ordered that the number of US diplomats in Russia must also be reduced to the very same number, 455.

Did you read the rest of that response to Rab?  No, of course you didn't.  Or you would have seen where I said this back and forth diplomatic expulsions have been going on for a long time.   Do the Google search I stated and you'll see dozens of instances where both countries (or Russia plus another country) booted diplomats.  Both sides do this. 

True of course. But what's your point exactly?

While I do think that expelling diplomats is a bad idea, no matter who is doing it, I need to at least give the russians credit that in the case that you mentioned, the russian expelling of US diplomats was "only" an obvious retaliation response to war-monger Obama expelling russian diplomats: "You are enforcing that the number of russian diplomats is being reduced to 455? Okay, then we will enforce that the number of US diplomats is also being reduced to 455." A somewhat understandable and just response.