{"id":254354,"date":"2025-03-07T23:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T23:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/trump-strongly-considering-large-scale-sanctions-and-tariffs-on-russia\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T23:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T23:42:06","slug":"trump-strongly-considering-large-scale-sanctions-and-tariffs-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/trump-strongly-considering-large-scale-sanctions-and-tariffs-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ‘strongly considering’ large-scale sanctions and tariffs on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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US President Donald Trump has said he is “strongly considering large-scale sanctions” and tariffs on Russia until a ceasefire and peace deal with Ukraine is reached.<\/p>\n

Trump said he was contemplating the move because “Russia is absolutely ‘pounding’ Ukraine on the battlefield right now”.<\/p>\n

Trump’s comments marked a sharp change in tone. Since coming into office, he has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and blamed Ukraine’s leader for not wanting peace with Russia. <\/p>\n

Hours later, however, the US president told reporters he was “finding it more difficult to deal with Ukraine”, and repeated that he trusted Putin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last Friday, Trump berated Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office<\/a>. Days earlier, he had even called him a dictator and blamed Ukraine for starting the war which began on 24 February 2022 when Putin launched a full-scale invasion of the neighbouring country.<\/p>\n

The public dressing-down was followed this week by Trump pausing all US military aid<\/a> and intelligence-sharing<\/a> with Kyiv. <\/p>\n

It is not clear if this enabled Russia’s large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

On Friday morning, Trump issued his threat of sanctions tariffs against Russia – apparently over the attack.<\/p>\n

“They [Russia] are bombing the hell out of them [Ukraine] right now… and I put a statement out, a very strong statement ‘can’t do that, can’t do that’,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Friday.<\/p>\n

Asked if that was a result of the US pause in military co-operation with Ukraine, Trump said Putin was doing “what anyone else would do”.<\/p>\n

And he justified the US move by saying: “I want to know they [Ukraine] want to settle and I don’t know they want to settle.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In Friday’s post, Trump wrote: “I am strongly considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED. To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late.”<\/p>\n

He did not provide any details as to how such sanctions and tariffs against Russia may work.<\/p>\n

Moscow is already under the heaviest Western sanctions in its history, many of which target its oil exports and foreign currency reserves. <\/p>\n

It has been able to get around them to a large extent by selling discounted oil to India and China, while importing many of the goods it previously got from the West through countries like Kazakhstan. <\/p>\n

China is reported to be helping to sustain Russia’s war effort with large volumes of dual-use technology, which it denies.<\/p>\n

The White House administration cannot have failed to notice the chorus of criticism that all the pressure for a peace deal is being piled on just Ukraine, not Russia. So it is possible that Trump’s threat is an attempt to present itself as being more even-handed. <\/p>\n

The problem is, we simply do not know what was discussed and what was agreed in that “lengthy and highly productive” 90-minute phone call that Donald Trump suddenly announced he had held last month with the Russian president. <\/p>\n

So far, Vladimir Putin has played a clever hand, sitting back and doubtless enjoying watching the transatlantic alliance come apart at the seams. <\/p>\n

Compared to that gain, the threat of US tariffs is unlikely to bother him unduly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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