Donald Trump has threatened Russia with taxes, tariffs and sanctions if a deal to end the war in Ukraine is not struck soon, as the new US president tries to increase pressure on Moscow to start negotiations with Kyiv.
Writing in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, Trump said Russia’s economy was failing and urged Vladimir Putin to “settle now and stop this ridiculous war”.Without a deal, Trump said, “I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries.”
The statement marks Trump’s most detailed efforts yet to end the war in Ukraine. During the election campaign, he said he would end the war “in 24 hours” if elected. “Let’s get this war, which never would have started if I were President, over with! We can do it the easy way, or the hard way – and the easy way is always better,” he said.
How long till the flipflop.
“I got ukrain the best deal by pressuring russia. All they have to do is give up half the land but they just did not want to take it”
Sanctions haven’t worked for three years, and Russia has already successfully diverted its economy away from the west at this point. The Financial Post was literally just reporting how Russia’s budget revenue rose to a record high last month even after the US targeted the banking sector with a new round of sanctions aimed at disrupting foreign trade payments and curbing proceeds from exports.
The key here is that he said “and other participating countries”, as though he had the power to set tarrifs on behalf of other countries, like England did in China during the century of humiliation. Outright neocolonizing of Europe would be a fuck.
I do expect he will try to put tariffs on BRICS countries, and he might use Russia as the initial justification. The west is very likely to end up in a severe economic crisis as a result.
Oh, he meant (Russia and other participating countries) and not (United States and other participating countries)? That makes more sense.
All is well indeed, especially compared to western economies
Russian economy is booming, and the World Bank just reclassified Russia as a high income country https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/world-bank-country-classifications-by-income-level-for-2024-2025
The IMF forecasts that Russian economy is set to grow faster than all the western economies https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/russia-forecast-to-grow-faster-than-advanced-economies-in-2024-imf.html
It’s absolutely hilarious how western propagandists have been predicting Russian economy collapsing for the past three years, but it’s only getting stronger. I guess there will always be rubes like you who still believe it.
Well at least things are accelerating down there, hopefully the madness will end soon enough, so the image they’re trying to project won’t hold for long.
It’ll be interesting to see how an already aging population will fare with so many of the active population dead.
Last time it happened in the West, it took imperialist pigs in the West a few notches down. Let’s hope for Russians and the neighbouring countries they bully the story will be similar with the pigs in the Kremlin this time.
Apparently you can’t even do basic math. Russian population is 140 million, and the total size of Russian army is 1.5 million, the casualties according to the only western source that provides any methodology is around 88k. If you think that’s going to have a significant impact on Russia overall then you’re delusional. https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng-trl
Meanwhile, absolutely hilarious you think Russian economy is some sort of a Potemkin village that’s got all the economists at the IMF and World Bank fooled. You keep on waiting there for Russian collapse, I’m sure it’ll happen right after China collapses.
I don’t expect the economy to fully collapse, no. It rarely actually happens. But standards of living deteriorate. It already started btw, the inflation being reported in the media is not something I invented.
Well, the IMF and the World Bank seem to disagree with you. Maybe you should let them know your new fangled economic theory though.
Must be nice living in that bubble of yours: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-growing-concerned-by-russias-economy-trump-mulls-more-sanctions-2025-01-23/
Or do you know the Russian economy better than its dictator?
Performative. He’s sided with Putin over the US every single time…
Always funny to see how trump is way less pro-russia than liberals keep screaming. Man completely failed to warm US-Russia relations in his first term and I doubt he is in the second.
Trump’s latest statements highlight the unease many in Moscow’s elite feel about his unpredictability, which has led to a cautious response since his re-election.
Lol the trump admin is only unpredictable if you take trump’s statements too much at face value. The US government doesn’t run on 1 person’s tweets.
Trump’s latest statement on the war in Ukraine notably omits any mention of providing additional weapons to Kyiv, instead signalling a shift towards deploying economic measures against Moscow.
Shift? The west has been using economic measures since day 1.
Trump administration officials have previously indicated that they believe the US could further target Russia’s economy by sanctioning its energy sector.
Lol. Sanctions raj on overdrive.
Well all those tariffs and taxes everybody else allready imposed sure did a lot to impress old VoVa
Somethings don’t change regardless of who is president.
It’s cool how he can level taxes on a sovereign nation. /s
