Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Serious Sanctions Time for Russia

 https://www.wsj.com/opinion/russia-ukraine-ceasefire-sanctions-bill-lindsey-graham-senate-gop-donald-trump-7941e3a4?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#cxrecs_s

As Putin strings along Trump, the Senate can send a message to Moscow.

President Trump told a reporter over the weekend that he’s “angry” at Vladimir Putin, and the Commander in Chief’s exasperation is welcome. The Russian dictator is stringing the President along over a 30-day cease-fire that Ukraine has already accepted.

“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine,” the President told NBC News, “and if I think it was Russia’s fault—which it might not be—but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia.” Under those so-called secondary sanctions, anybody buying oil from Russia “can’t do business in the United States.”

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