According to Asafov, Royce’s statement is connected with the American elections, and all the sanctions applicable to Russia, in the opinion of congressmen, “do not look strictly enough and decisively.”
Also, the words of Royce, the political scientist noted, can be regarded as "pumping up the political situation."
“Now we are talking about the alleged poisoning with the alleged use of chemical warfare, from which, for some reason, no one died. The absurdity of the application is obvious to us. However, congressmen believe that the sanctions applied were not serious enough. Their task is to prove that Trump is not strict enough to Russia. But there is no need to think about the use of chemical weapons, it does not matter. Because what is happening now is simply pumping up the political situation, ”Asafov concluded.
Earlier, Royce said that Russia allegedly "did not comply with the requirements of the law" of the United States on chemical weapons and called inadmissible the administration’s lack of a plan for "actions of the second round of mandatory sanctions required by US law."