PROS AND CONS OF LISTING RUSSIA AS A STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM

A chorus of voices is pressing the Biden administration to place Russia on the U.S. State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. Members of the U.S. Congress are lobbying Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make the listing, and both the Senate and the House of Representatives the higher and lower congressional houses  have introduced resolutions calling on him to do so, with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi describing the designation as “long overdue”. Should the U.S. make this designation, Russia would join a very small group of countries on a list that the U.S.