US Republican hawk John Bolton has described the sanctions against Russia announced by the Obama administration as an insufficient response for Moscow’s “attack on our constitutional system.”
On Thursday, outgoing Democratic President Barack Obama announced a series of economic sanctions against Russia, as well as expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats, over allegations that it interfered in the 2016 presidential election through cyberattacks.
The sanctions target Russia’s FSB and GRU intelligence agencies, four individual GRU officers, and three companies who allegedly provided support to the GRU, and two Russian individuals for using cyberattacks to cause misappropriation of funds and personal identifying information.
Under Thursday’s actions, the US also shut down two Russian compounds in New York and Maryland that the United States says are used “for intelligence-related purposes.”
However, Bolton, former US ambassador to the United Nations,…