McCain: Russia Has Reset Relations... Back To 1955
Sen. John McCain says the U.S. needs to do more than cancel Russia meetings, also calls overthrow in Egypt a coup.
MCCAIN: Look, this is an old-line KGB apparatchik colonel that has dreams of the restitution or reincarnation of the old Russian empire.
Look, the Russians have reset. They have reset, all right, back to about 1955. So, we need to do a lot of things, not just cancel it, but we need to expand the Magnitsky Act. That is calling into account people who abuse human rights. We need to take Georgia into NATO. We need to have a free trade agreement with the Europeans so they won't be so dependent on Russian oil.
There's a whole lot of steps we can take. And all of them we should take. It's not confrontation. It is just a realistic approach to a country that is not acting in the interest of world peace or anybody else's except Vladimir Putin's desire to hold on to power.
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