The U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on sanctions, which the media links to the Skripal case, may have been signed to appease Congress; Washington does not have reasons to exacerbate relations with Russia at present, Russian Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee First Deputy Chairman Vladimir Dzhabarov said.
“I don’t rule out that this option is also viable, because Trump had no reasons to exacerbate the situation. He has recently had a decent conversation with our president and offered help in fighting fires. There are no firm grounds for imposing sanctions now,” Dzhabarov told Interfax on August 2.
It is now simply envisaged that sanctions may be imposed, but it is as of yet unclear whether it will actually happen, he said. “They have an intention, but they will decide on the go whether to take these steps,” Dzhabarov said.
“No one is interested” in U.S. sanctions “anymore,” he said. “They’ve been making them on such a mass scale that no one really reacts to them anymore. We’re used to them [sanctions], have adapted to them,” Dzhabarov said.
“I’m not even sure that we’re going to take any measures in response, I don’t see any point in it,” he said.
