The United States will not designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, instead believing that strengthening sanctions and imposing export restrictions is a more effective way to slow down Moscow’s war machine. That’s according to US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, who told a press briefing on June 24 that such a designation would entail various negative consequences, including humanitarian ones. Instead, there are a number of other more effective ways to “hold Russia accountable for its actions,” Miller explained. “We continue to pursue those in terms of sanctioning Russian of…