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goobster  ·  2922 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It Starts

So the Federal Government can now purchase software from Russia's FSB?

Oh sure... that'll go well for us...





b_b  ·  2922 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Upon further reading, I guess what this actually happened was that by the letter of the law Americans couldn't legally go to Russia, because the FSB controls their border patrol. So anytime anyone paid a visa fee, they were technically violating sanctions. The Obama administration started work on this fix a month or so ago.

So not a big deal, but the fact that everyone was freaking out, because we all expect that our president is colluding with the Russians is telling enough.