Trump ‘considering largely large -scale sanctions and tariffs on Russia

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said he is “strongly considering large -scale sanctions” and tariffs to Russia until a fire and peace agreement with Ukraine is reached.

Trump said he was contemplating the measure because “Russia is absolutely hitting Ukraine on the battlefield at this time.”

Trump’s comments marked a strong change in tone. Since he entered the position, he praised the Russian president Vladimir Putin and blamed the leader of Ukraine for not wanting peace with Russia.

Hours later, however, the president of the United States told reporters that he was “finding more difficult to deal with Ukraine,” and repeated that he trusted Putin.

Last Friday, Trump Old Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. Days before, he had even called him dictator and blamed Ukraine for starting the war that began on February 24, 2022 when Putin launched a large -scale invasion of the neighboring country.

The public appetizer was followed this week by Trump stopping everyone United States military aid and Intelligence exchange With Kyiv.

It is not clear if this allowed the attack of missiles and large -scale drones of Russia against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Thursday night.

On Friday morning, Trump issued his threat of penalty tariffs against Russia, apparently about the attack.

“They (Russia) are bombing them (Ukraine) at this time … and I took a statement, a very strong statement ‘cannot do it, I can’t do it,” Trump said in the Oval office on Friday.

When asked if that was the result of the United States pause in military cooperation with Ukraine, Trump said Putin was doing “what any other person would do.”

And justified the US movement. Uu. By saying: “I want to know that (Ukraine) want to establish themselves and I don’t know what they want to settle.”

In Friday’s publication, Trump wrote: “I am considering strongly large -scale bank sanctions, sanctions and tariffs on Russia until a solution agreement and a final agreement on peace are reached. Russia and Ukraine, arrives at the table right now, before it is too late.”

He did not provide any details about how such sanctions and rates against Russia can work.

Moscow is already under the heaviest western sanctions in its history, many of which are directed to their oil exports and currency reserves.

He has been able to surround them largely selling oil with discount to India and China, while importing many of the goods that he previously obtained from the West through countries such as Kazakhstan.

It is reported that China is helping to maintain Russia’s war effort with large volumes of two -use technology, which denies.

The White House administration cannot have noticed the choir of criticism that all the pressure for a peace agreement is accumulating only in Ukraine, not in Russia. Therefore, it is possible that Trump’s threat is an attempt to present himself as more impartial.

The problem is that we simply do not know what was discussed and what was agreed in that 90 -minute phone call “long and highly productive” that Donald Trump suddenly announced that he had celebrated last month with the Russian president.

Until now, Vladimir Putin has played an intelligent hand, sitting and certainly enjoying seeing that the transatlantic alliance falls apart in the seams.

Compared to that gain, it is unlikely that the threat of American tariffs bothers him unduly.