Posted on 03/30/2023 9:39:12 AM PDT by Enlightened1
MOSCOW, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The United States has told its citizens to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies.
"U.S. citizens residing or travelling in Russia should depart immediately," the U.S. embassy in Moscow said. "Exercise increased caution due to the risk of wrongful detentions."
"Do not travel to Russia," it added.
"Russian security services have arrested U.S. citizens on spurious charges, singled out U.S. citizens in Russia for detention and harassment, denied them fair and transparent treatment, and convicted them in secret trials or without presenting credible evidence," the embassy said.
"Russian authorities arbitrarily enforce local laws against U.S. citizen religious workers and have opened questionable criminal investigations against U.S. citizens engaged in religious activity."
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avoiding Russia is always sensible advice, anytime
Yep.
It can be difficult figuring out just who’s side the State Dept. is working for. I hear it’s sometimes very foggy over there, and I believe it.
They arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter for spying.
But don’t return to America if you’re a conservative as you’ll face the same treatment here.
Who is the United States?
Oh well ...
Likewise,most..if not all..U.S. cities.
That’s quite a generalization.
Let’s see if this White male WSJ reporter is in the news every day and is the primary focus of Biden to get sprung.
On the surface this is supposedly about “unwarranted harassment” but IMO it’s clear undertone is diplomatic escalation of antagonism DUE TO UKRAINE.
Let’s just play these silly games with a troubled leader who has his finger on the button of 6000 nukes and see what happens. Sound right to you?
All for a sawed off little dictator in a T-shirt who is getting richer by the minute.
Warmongers. U. S., I mean.
Russia is safer for Americans than Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Camden, etc etc etc...
“riding the Trans-Siberian RR from Moscow to Vladivostok”
The Russians will be so friendly you will be converted into one of those “Putin puffers”...
lol.
the former USA was that country that got taken over in a coup recently by working the vulnerable system. They kept the same name and flag and propped up a brain dead old "oligarch" named Joe
Its that country that got divided and conquered by corporate and foreign interests that declared war on Russia because they don't like competition with the USD as World Reserve Currency in the energy sector
“I hear it’s sometimes very foggy over there, and I believe it.”
Don’t forget “bottom”, which is very important to many in that building.
Interesting schism brewing in the Patriot movement between the Cold Warrior anti-Marxists, to whom China and Russia remain a knee jerk anathema, and the modern day “dark enlightenment” faction of Patriot free thinkers reflecting the actual roots of republicanism as an ANTI-ARISTOCRACY tradition on the attack against monopolism, dictatorship and the hypnosis of cult-contagion thinking.
Any nation that has built 26,000 miles of high speed rail lines in 15 years!, while we have built bupkus, needs to be reconsidered as a potential ally capable of creating a nation more of, by and for the people than we obviously are. How anyone with conservative values can fail to see in China and Russia today, strong initiatives towards family values, non-woke education, respect for science and a positive attitude towards technological progress, is a form of blindness.
By immediately do they mean like, right now. Or is it OK to like, immediately leave like, a month and a half later?
You nailed it, brother FReeper!
Yeah, I forgot to note that they are generally NOT on top of things, but when one gets to the bottom of things, surprise, surprise, there they are.
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