Exclusive: Russia doesn't have firepower to retaliate against Trump, says ex-Putin aide
Luke James
Brussels correspondent
Yahoo Finance UKApril 11, 2018
Russia doesn’t have the financial capability to retaliate to a military intervention in Syria by the US.
That’s according to a former senior aide to Vladimir Putin, who has told Yahoo Finance UK that threats from Moscow of a ‘backlash’ against the US are completely unfounded.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump warned – in a tweet – that military action in Syria would be is imminent, declaring missiles “will be comingâ€.
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