The departure from the United States with respect to the rest of the powers has favored Europe, which has chosen to gain some independence against its traditional ally and has begun to organize to deal with the Russian aggression of Ukraine.
However, although the group has proposed several measures, including a coalition of volunteers that could have “presence on land, in the air and in the sea, as well as air defense”, from the country led by Trump propose that sanctions continue to be imposed, as it is the only way with which Europe “can demonstrate that it is serious”, as the magazine claims Fortune.
In this way, one of the first steps would be end the shipments of liquefied natural gas (LNG), Which instead of reducing have been shot, according to the US publication, which points to Germany as the largest importer of this Russian resource.
The writer Walter Russell Mead also agreed in this regard, who said in the newspaper Wall Street Journal That European powers “have taken advantage of all opportunities to trade with Russia, even when that trade weakened European security and strengthened Moscow.”
According to the Oxford Institute of Energy Studies, in the exercise of 2024, the tax revenues of oil and gas achieved cover 30% of the Kremlin budget, What a CREA report declared, “buying Russian fossil fuels is clearly similar to sending financial help to the Kremlin and allowing its invasion.”
In addition to financing, another of the US interests in this issue is to increase its market, because although the United States is the main exporter of LNG to Europe, Russia is the second, Which means that if they dispensed with them, the US could take over.
Together with the energy sector, the volumes of exports of Russian minerals and metals have also remained “largely intact”, as stated by a report from American Enterprise Institute, which points out that both lead, titanium, platinum, cobalt and gold have experienced an increase in these terms.
However, it should be noted that reaching an agreement to impose sanctions on the EU is not easy, because for this You must first have the consensus of the 27 EU countries and nations such as Denmark, Belgium and Italy have several Russian factories that use Russian metal supplies.
