The president of the United States, Donald Trump, warned on Sunday that he is “very angry” and “very pissed off” with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, before the course that is acquiring the negotiation for a high fire in Ukraine, and threatened to impose additional sanctions on Russian oil if he ends up deciding that Moscow is the only guilty of the paralysis of conversations.
“As Russia and I cannot reach an agreement to stop the spill of blood in Ukraine, as it believes that it is Russia’s fault – which may not be – I will impose tariffs secondary to all the oil that comes out of Russia,” the president made known in a call to a call to NBC News.
Trump declared himself especially angry by the comments made last Thursday by Putin, who proposed to replace his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, for a “temporary” government sponsored by the United Nations and the United States in order to advance negotiations for the end of the war. “That kind of comments,” said the US president, “they don’t go in the right direction.”
The American president, who paradoxically a few weeks ago called Zelenski “dictator” for his inability to call elections in war time, he clarified what he wanted to say with “secondary tariffs” by explaining that “anyone who buys Russian oil will not be able to do business with the United States and there will be a 25% tariff on oil, a tariff of 25 to 50 points over all oil.”
Trump added that he will maintain a new conversation with Putin and clarified to the Russian president, with whom he insisted for the umpteenth time, “maintains an excellent relationship”, that “all this anger will happen very quickly, provided it does the right thing.”
US revokes several oil companies
The same day Trump pronounced these threats, in addition, his administration revoked the permits and exemptions granted to several oil companies, including the Spanish Repsol, to export oil from Venezuela, according to sources cited by the newspaper The Wall Street Journal and the news agency Bloomberg.
The measure includes the American oil company Global Oil Terminals, owned by the millionaire and donor of the Republican party Harry Sargeant III, the French Maurel ET Prom and the aforementioned Repsol, according to three connoisseur people of the matter mentioned by Bloomberg. These companies must end their operations in Venezuela before May 27, the sources explain.
Washington’s decision also affects licenses issued to Venezuelan gas companies that have a commercial relationship with the Venezuelan state oil company, PDVSA.
These permits were issued by the US Department of the Treasury under the format of licenses, exemptions or compliance letters to allow them to operate in Venezuela and export PDVSA oil without affecting the sanctions imposed by Washington.
With regard to the American Global Oil Terminals, it must also end all transactions with PDVSA before April 2, paying any pending amount for the purchase of oil for asphalting.
