Donald Trump has launched his since the beginning of his peculiar process of thawing to Russia last month. In a message on his social network, Truth, has threatened the Kremlin with sanctions and tariffs of great draft, included in the banking sector, if he does not sit at the negotiating table to close a high fire and a peace agreement with Ukraine.
The message comes when Russia, apparently emboldened by the winks that the US president had been launching his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and Trump’s very public anger to the Ukraine Volodimir Zelenski in the Oval Office, ha.
“Based on the fact that Russia is ‘massacreo’ absolutely to Ukraine on the battlefield, I seriously consider imposing bank sanctions, sanctions and large -scale tariffs against Russia as long as the fire is already reached, and a definitive peace agreement is reached. To Russia and Ukraine: feel at the negotiating table already, before it is too late. Thank you! ”, In your social network.
It is not clear what kind of punishment is the Republican, or what reach they would have. The United States already maintains broad sanctions against Russia, included against the financial sector and the oil industry, the great lung that has given air to the economy of the aggressor country in the three years of war. As for the tariffs that Trump mentions, neither does they seem to generate great pressure. The Russian products that enter the US market are minimal: the commercial exchange between the two adversaries was only 3.5 billion dollars in 2024. An ridiculous amount compared to the 807,000 million dollars that the commercial relationship between the United States and Mexico reaches, for example.
But the message does represent a change of tone with respect to the flowery praise that Trump has been dedicating to Putin, and that they have abounded since both leaders spoke on the phone last month in a conversation that ended the isolation in which the United States had left Moscow since the beginning of the Russian invasion to Ukraine three years ago. The Republican has described his counterpart as “a genius” and “very intelligent”, has praised his supposed interest in achieving peace and has assured that although he may have lied to other leaders, he has not “deceived.”
In addition, the United States has given a series of support steps to Russia, including vote at the UN of a resolution on the third anniversary of the war that did not condemn the Russian aggression. According to the Reuters agency, Washington also considers eliminating some sanctions against Moscow if the negotiation process continues.
Instead, Trump has been very critical against Zelenski, whom he has come to call “dictator without elections.” His animosity towards him was evident in the rappe in the Oval Office, in which he doubted that President Ukraine would like peace. Since then, the US administration has suspended military and intelligence aid to Ukraine, although in the last 48 hours it has given signs of softening its positions, while.
Meeting in Saudi Arabia
Trump’s message arrives on the eve that an American delegation meets next week in Saudi Arabia with Ukrainian representatives, in the first face -to -face contact of the one who has recorded since the US president abroncted Zelenski on February 28. High positions of the United States were seen two weeks ago in Riad with their Russian counterparts to deal with the end of the war.
The US president argues that he is not on one side or another in the war in Ukraine, only “on the side of the world, and the United States.” This already represents a turn with respect to the position of unconditional aid to kyiv that Washington had adopted during the three years of war, when he sent about 120,000 million dollars, according to the Kiel Institute for the global economy, in assistance to the occupied country.
It is not the first time that Trump threatens Moscow with sanctions since his investiture in January. In the same week when he returned to the White House, he sent a message similar to the Kremlin – and on the same way, through Truth – in which he warned that he would impose sanctions and tariffs that would devastate the Russian economy if he did not agree to sit at the negotiating table.
