US President Donald Trump said that he “strongly envisaged large-scale sanctions” and Russia prices until a ceasefire and a peace agreement with Ukraine is concluded.
Trump said he was considering this decision because “Russia” beats “Ukraine on the battlefield at the moment”.
Trump’s comments have marked a good change in tone. Since his entry into office, he congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin and blamed the leader of Ukraine not to want peace with Russia.
A few hours later, however, the American president told journalists that he “had more trouble dealing with Ukraine” and repeated that he had confidence in Putin.
Last Friday, Trump reprimanded the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in the oval office. A few days earlier, he even called him dictator and blamed Ukraine for having started the war that started on February 24, 2022 when Putin launched a large -scale invasion of the neighboring country.
The public dressing was followed this week by Trump on break with all the American military aid and the sharing of intelligence with Kyiv.
It is not clear if it allowed Russia on a large scale the attack on missiles and drones against the energy infrastructure of Ukraine on Thursday evening.
On Friday morning, Trump issued his threat of sanctions prices against Russia – apparently about the attack.
“They (Russia) bomb hell (Ukraine) at the moment … and I have put a statement, a very solid statement” cannot do that, I can’t do this “,” said Trump in the oval office on Friday.
When asked if it was the result of the American break in military cooperation with Ukraine, Trump said that Putin was doing “what someone else would do.”
And he justified the American move by saying: “I want to know that they (Ukraine) want to settle down and I do not know they want to settle.”
In the post of Friday, Trump wrote: “I firmly envisage large -scale banking sanctions, sanctions and prices on Russia until a contract for this cessation and final settlement on peace is concluded.
He has provided no details on how these sanctions and prices against Russia can work.
Moscow is already under the heaviest western sanctions in its history, many of which target its oil exports and currency reserves.
He was able to circumvent them to a large extent by selling oil at reduced prices in India and China, while important many goods that she had previously had from the West through countries like Kazakhstan.
China will help support Russia’s war effort with large volumes of double -use technology, which it denies.
The administration of the White House could not not notice the choir of criticism according to which all the pressure for a peace agreement is being surrounded by Ukraine, not Russia. It is therefore possible that Trump’s threat is an attempt to present himself as being more impartial.
The problem is that we simply do not know what was discussed and what was agreed in this “long and very productive” telephone call from 90 minutes that Donald Trump suddenly announced that he had held last month with the Russian president.
Until now, Vladimir Putin has played a smart hand, sitting down and probably liked to look at the Transatlantic Alliance separating with seams.
Compared to this gain, the threat of American prices is unlikely to disturb it unduly.
