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US: ‘Colleagues’ singing from different hymn sheets over Russia
THE US vice-president urged confrontation with Russia yesterday just hours after the secretary of state condemned Congress for voting to impose new sanctions on Russia.
The gulf between hawks and doves in President Donald Trump’s government opened up when Vice-President Mike Pence contradicted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s comments made on Tuesday.
In a remarkable press conference, Mr Tillerson said: “The action by the Congress to put these sanctions in place and the way they did, neither the president nor I are very happy about that.”
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