Sanctions, smoke and mirrors from a kindergarten on LSD by The Saker

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The Saker on the "constitutional coup d'etat" that just occurred in Congress.

The latest US sanctions [against Russia] contain an absolutely unprecedented and, frankly, shocking feature: the new measures strip the President of the authority to revoke the sanctions.  In other words, Congress has now hijacked the power of the Presidency to conduct foreign policy and taken upon itself to micromanage the US foreign policy... That, my friends, is clearly a constitutional coup d’état and a gross violation of the principles of separation of powers, which is at the very core of the US political system...