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Dana Rohrabacher: Yes, we have a goal of lots of wonderful things for Russia. As long as we act like a bunch of saps, as long as we act…

On the recordJuly 19, 2000
Yes, we have a goal of lots of wonderful things for Russia. As long as we act like a bunch of saps, as long as we act like we can be taken advantage of, giving debt restructuring while they are doing things in a belligerent way to the United States, and providing resources for an intelligence facility in Cuba, providing hundreds of millions of dollars of resources to an intelligence facility in Cuba that puts the lives of American military personnel at risk is a belligerent act on the part of the Russian government towards the United States. We should not reward this type of belligerence by restructuring their debt. There is no moral equivalence between an American intelligence post and that of Russia. There is no moral equivalence between a Communist dictatorship in Cuba and other democratic societies. We should not be restructuring the debt of a country that is belligerent towards us and using their money to put the lives of American military personnel at risk.
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Discussing U.S. debt restructuring for Russia amid its actions towards the U.S. and Cuba.

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