Why Does the GOP Support Lifting Sanctions on Oligarch?

[Albion]

The rebuke vote is purely political in my view.
How is lifting the sanctions on these Russian businesses economically advantageous to the US?

The explanation given was that the people involved with this particular part of the sanctions had indeed followed, complied with, the requirements set out by the sanctions.

 

[Hank77]

The explanation given was that the people involved with this particular part of the sanctions had indeed followed, complied with, the requirements set out by the sanctions.

People aren't believing that the Russian oligarch is no longer an owner or has authority over his three companies. Why should the US believe them or him? He is still under sanctions.
What type of documentation is needed to prove that they have separated themselves from him? idk

 

[Albion]

My view is that this is why we have a State Department, and all the other agencies that deal with such matters. The idea that the Congress instead is going to micromanage such day-to-day decisions with a meat axe approach and do it from afar with people who have no real knowledge of the issue casting the decisive votes is ridiculous. Just a partisan political thing.

 

[Hank77]

My view is that this is why we have a State Department, and all the other agencies that deal with such matters. The idea that the Congress instead is going to micromanage such day-to-day decisions with a meat axe approach and do it from afar with people who have no real knowledge of the issue casting the decisive votes is ridiculous. Just a partisan political thing.

Wasn't it the Congress who put the sanctions on Russia in the first place?

 

[Albion]

But this isn't about removing the sanctions from Russia.

It concerns only one small segment of the bigger policy and it not simply a *Shall we keep the sanctions or shall we get rid of them?* proposition. It is about following-up, about administering the sanctions, and only in this case.

 

[Hank77]

But this isn't about removing the sanctions from Russia.

It concerns only one small segment of the bigger policy and it not simply a *Shall we keep the sanctions or shall we get rid of them?* proposition. It is about following-up, about administering the sanctions, and only in this case.

Yes, it's lifting the sanctions on three Russian companies that were owned and operated by a Russian oligarch with close ties to Putin. An oligarch that is still under personal sanctions.