of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz . Asked about potential consequences for the hack , the White House described " a full range of options available to us in the government . " " That includes economic sanctions out of Department of Treasury .
In August , Moscow hosted a gathering of nationalist and separatist activists from all over Europe and the U.S .— part of an ongoing effort to encourage anti - EU and anti - NATO political groups , including Greece ’s Golden Dawn , Bulgaria ’s Ataka and Hungary ’s Jobbik . As Vice President Joe Biden warned in a speech in Washington last year , “ Putin sees such political forces as useful tools to be manipulated , to create cracks in the European body politic which he can then exploit . ” To Putin ’s mind , the campaign is a way of pushing back against what he sees as meddling by Washington and Brussels in his backyard , from allegedly encouraging anti - Putin protests in Moscow in 2011 to fomenting the pro - European Maidan uprising in Kiev in 2013 that led to the oustingpersonnel.endposition.firinglayoffof President Yanukovych ( and put Paul Manafort temporarily out of a job ) . Putin “ honestly believes that the U.S. is trying to overthrow him , ” says Kremlin - connected political technologist Gleb Pavlovsky , who advised Putin until 2011 . “ In the eyes of Russian elites , Western aggression must be met with a response , ” argues Eugene Rumer , director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 's Russia and Eurasia Program and a former national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the U.S. National Intelligence Council .
' Yats is the guy ' , Nuland said , referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk , who indeed would become the new prime minister . Nuland and Pyatt then exchanged ideas how to ' glue this thing ' and how to ' midwife this thing ' . This ' thing ' became the bloody Feb. 22 , 2014 coup oustingpersonnel.endposition.firinglayoffelected President Yanukovych and touching off a civil war between Ukrainian ' nationalists ' from the west and Ukraine 's ethnic Russians in the east . " Crucially , Parry notes , " when citizen Clinton weighed in on the Ukraine crisis , she compared Russian President Putin to Hitler . " With neocons vowing " to ignore Russia 's warnings against what it views as military threats to its existence , " and proposing that NATO " incorporate Ukrainian army units into its expansion of military operations along Russia 's border , " it will be up to the next president to test whether the current downturn in Russia - US relations can get any worse .