Trump finally delivers on Russian sanctions—a month and a half after saying no sanctions were needed
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After weeks of saying that it was unnecessary to sanction Russia, despite legislation that mandated new sanctions, the embarrassing fact that his good friend Vladmir Putin authorized the use of a genuine WMD on British soil has apparently spurred Trump into taking very limited action.
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