Trump is now walking back on his bromance with Putin knowing that the Europeans and the whole world is condemning his stance on Ukraine. The Europeans are moving towards forming their own security umbrella, and the USA will lose its leverage on the Europeans totally.
Trump is threatening further sanctions against Russia, after Putin's massive strike on Ukraine. He has to do something about that for damage control, and as expected, sanctions and tariffs are his only weapons. Putin is not going to take that lying down. What further sanctions and tariffs can Trump scrap from the bottom of the barrel to punish Russia is a mystery. USA trade with Russia is now minimal to say the obvious.
Will Trump sanction Russia on essential Russian imports like cheap nuclear fuel that is still on? Sure, he can do that actually, knowing that Trump is a strong advocate of fossil fuel extraction. Drill baby drill is his war cry all along. Just wondering how much Trump has invested in fossil fuel companies or how much campaign support he has extracted from those fossil fuel lobbies that are fueling his fossil fuel agenda.
Trump would be mad to take action against Putin, who may decide to cut off all cheap nuclear fuel exports to the USA totally. With Canada now threatening Trump with the cutting of oil exports to the USA, that would be a suicide move by Trump. However, perhaps Trump, the D grader, is not at all aware of the USA's precarious position and just acting on autopilot like those tariffs on Canada and Mexico and the coming move against the EU, with India in the pipeline. Trump wants India to reduce tariffs, when he himself is increasing tariffs on every country. India now has to buy weapons from the USA, paying in US$ not in rupees, the reason that India is moving away from Russia in the first place for not accepting rupees in payment.
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