I have no idea what to make of this. Who’s pushing this? Certainly not Pooty-Poot’s monkeyboy.
I mean… as much as I despise Trump. He isnt wrong to call out other Nato countries that are still buying oil from Russia. There is absolutely zero excuse for that.
Trump’s just not a reliable partner. He’s just recently with his genius-brain managed to figure out that Putin has been lying to him and treating him like an idiot this whole time, and he doesn’t like that because he’s supposed to be always the liar and never the lie-ee, and so now he’s gunning for Russia, which they can’t really do anything about.
(Well, almost nothing. I kind of suspect that the sudden furor about Trump and Epstein, when we’ve basically known the two of them were BFFs for decades now and plenty of far worse things including someone who swore testimony that Trump raped her as a child, is because Russia is trying to punish him. The weird factor that some of the Russian assets like MTG are really pushing the Epstein thing bolsters the credibility a little bit, too.)
What do tariffs on China have to do with Ukraine? It seems like he just added that in there to make sure they weren’t really tempted to collectively call his bluff and leave Russia in (even more) economic catastrophe.
China has been supplying war material to Russia, and is the single largest customer for Russian oil which is one of the only things keeping the Russian economy semi-functional.
He is making unrealistic demands so he can use them to chicken out of following through on sanctions.
And probably even pull out of NATO.
