Trump Has A New Tactic To Stop The Ukraine War – Going After Russia's Allies

President Donald Trump has a new plan Donald Trump seems to have come up with a new strategy to force Vladimir Putin into ending the Ukraine war: going after Russia’s allies.The American president has said he wants to discourage Moscow’s allies from buying its oil to disrupt Russia’s economy – a move, he claimed, would end the conflict.But, rather than just hitting Russia with new sanctions – something he has repeatedly threatened to but is yet to actually do – Trump has decided to target its international customers instead.He said on Tuesday: “India has not been a good trading partner... so we settled on 25% [tariffs] but I think I’m going to raise that very substantially over the next 24 hours, because they’re buying Russian oil, they’re fuelling the war machine, and if they’re going to do that, I’m not going to be happy.”Speaking to CNBC’s Squawk Box, the president added: “Putin will stop killing people if you get energy down by another $10 a barrel.“He’s going to have no choice because his economy stinks.”Trump is not wrong: Putin’s economy does “stink”.It is facing exceptionally high inflation, as well as high food and production costs which the Russian president himself has described as “alarming”.After Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the west began to distance itself from Russia’s booming oil trade.However, countries like India and China have continued buying Russian oil, thus propping up Putin’s bloodthirsty land grab in Ukraine.The Kremlin shrugged off the US president’s remarks, claiming Trump’s tariff threats were “attempts to force countries to stop trade relations with Russia”.Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov said: “We do not consider such statements to be legitimate.“We believe that sovereign countries should have, and have the right to choose their own trade partners, partners in trade and economic cooperation.“And to choose those trade and economic cooperation regimes that are in the interests of a particular country.”Trump’s new strategy comes days before the new deadline he has given Russia to end the war comes into effect.The president announced last week that unless Putin had pulled out Ukraine by August 8, he would finally impose more sanctions on Russia.The remark led Putin’s close ally and high-ranking official, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to claim that each of Trump’s new ultimatums were “a threat and a step towards war” between the States and Russia.Trump hit back by saying last Friday that he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be “positioned in the appropriate regions”.These exchanges are all a far cry from the friendly relationship Trump and Putin seemed to have when the US president returned to the White House earlier this year.But, as he told the UK press during a golfing trip in Scotland last week, Trump is now “disappointed” in Putin.“I spoke to president Putin a lot. Got along with him very well,” he said. “Then president Putin launches rockets into a city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people — in a nursing home, or wherever — and there are bodies lying all over the streets.”Related...RFK Jr Says Donald Trump Keeps Hounding Him On The Phone With Same QuestionTrump Melts Down Over ‘Crazed Lunatic’ Democrats In Escalating Confirmation FeudDid Donald Trump's New Nuclear Threats Alarm Vladimir Putin?

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