President Trump on Saturday said he will impose further U.S. sanctions on Russia only if all NATO countries place high tariffs on China.
Trump has threatened to impose more sanctions on Russia to press it to end the war in Ukraine, but despite many public statements he has so far been reluctant to do it.
Trump claimed on Saturday that imposing tariffs on China would lead Beijing to press Vladimir Putin to end the war.
Despite his promises to end the war in Ukraine, Trump seemed doubtful lately about his ability to influence Putin. He has conceded to confidants that he misjudged Putin's desire for peace, a source with direct knowledge told Axios.
One month ago, Trump declared that Putin would face severe consequences if he didn't agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine or take major steps toward peace when they met in Alaska.
But since then, regardless of the fact that Putin didn't agree to a ceasefire or even for a meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump didn't impose new sanctions.
Instead, the administration has shifted the onus for pressuring Putin onto Europe, demanding additional EU sanctions on Moscow and on China for buying Russian oil.
Posted by John3262005
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Why doesn’t the US just do its own trade war against China? Are they stupid?
This is literally the dumbest and most evil person possible just dementia riffing the most important job in the world.
Has Trump even enacted his high tariffs on China?
If he opened with this, it might even be kidna sensible. Basically – “we fully commit against Russia, you fully commit against China.”
The problem is that he didn’t. At this point, it would be exceptionally stupid of us to do this and hope he won’t just come up with yet another demand two months later. He’s done it at least two times now.
Anyway, I fully expect the EU to announce the tariffs next Friday.
If they do this, will we say thank you?
He just keeps moving goalposts at this point.