The Republican Senator for South Carolina Lindsey Graham has affirmed that US President Donald Trump can still restore the reputation of the United States. This has ruled in an opinion article in the Wall Street Journalin He has added that this requires that the US continues with its determined efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
In any case, as he said, the American Senate is prepared. Graham has coordinated with the White House a bill that would impose tariffs of 500% to all countries that buy Russian energy products, as the media has been made .
“The consequences of barbara invasion [de Rusia] They must become tangible for those who support it. If China and India stop buying cheap oil, Putin’s war machinery could stop, “he said.
In practice, Graham’s proposal would mean that countries that continue buying Russia’s oil would be subject to tariffs so high that their import trade with the United States would be practically impossible. This could have important implications for world trade, according to Laura Solanko, main expert of the Bank of Finland.
On the other hand, Russia is considered a country at war, which makes it much easier for the people to justify the economic decline than for Western politicians, the expert added to the Finnish environment.
Meanwhile, Jussi Lassila, principal researcher of the Finland Foreign Policy Institute, has also indicated that the secondary sanctions previously imposed by the United States have worked exactly as expected. “The United States has simply demonstrated its global economic power. China and India have received cheap oil from Russia, but what is at stake are commercial relations with the United States, which are much more important. This is Russia’s great vulnerability,” he said.
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