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By Steven Nelson
NY Post (Mar. 7, 2025)
https://nypost.com/2025/03/07/us-news/trump-threatens-sanctions-on-russia-for-continued-attacks-on-ukraine/

“Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely ‘pounding’ Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump, 78, has sought to pressure both sides to the table to end the war and his aides are due to meet next week with Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia.

The US president argues that a pending framework pact that would grant America a 50% stake in Ukraine’s rare-earth minerals would effectively give Kyiv security guarantees through the presence of mining personnel...

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Developing story, only published 10 minutes ago

Guess Pres. Trump isn't too happy with Russia's ongoing attacks on civilian structures - Russia bombed a hotel yesterday ...

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Tariffs?  EU squids will procure oil from Russia's proxies. 

There needs to be an almost "Manhatten Project" level approach to drop oil prices as low and fast as possible.  Then watch Putin squirm. and ask for peace.
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Developing story, only published 10 minutes ago

Guess Pres. Trump isn't too happy with Russia's ongoing attacks on civilian structures - Russia bombed a hotel yesterday ...

Trump is 'strongly considering' stronger sanctions. We'll see what happens with that. My guess would be that Putin pounding Ukraine is because he isn't too happy with the U.S. contemplating signing documents giving us a stake in Ukraine's rare earth minerals nor is he happy with any sort of alliance Z made with the UK, France and others recently.

Putin is retaliating and unfortunately, IMO will likely to continue to do so; he has captured areas in Ukraine that have rare earth minerals. 

I still trust neither Z nor Putin and Z could possibly try to sign over stake in areas to the US that Russia has already taken over. Neither of them have any integrity whatsoever.

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Now, will Europe stop buying Putin's gas?

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Tariffs?  EU squids will procure oil from Russia's proxies. 

There needs to be an almost "Manhatten Project" level approach to drop oil prices as low and fast as possible.  Then watch Putin squirm. and ask for peace.

Euros think only Americans should be inconvenienced.

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Tariffs only work as a threat if the country they are imposed against has significant trade with the country imposing, either in total volume or in the importance to the country's economy.  Russia's trade with the US is negligible.  And what banking sanctions can possibly hit when Russian banks have been banned from the SWIFT payment system?

Trump is threatening essentially nothing.  The only real threat to Putin is the thing Trump has decided to stop:  supply of armaments and intelligence to Ukraine.

I am really not sure where Trump got the idea that tariffs are some sort of magic wand.  The only place they might be useful is against China, and he's imposing lighter tariffs against them than against friendly countries.  I guess the lesson of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff and anti-Japanese trade restriction in the 1930's is completely lost in the mists of history:  tariffs and trade restrictions imposed on friendly countries are a great way to turn them into unfriendly countries.  (Japan had been an Allied power in WWI and was eager for trade with the US before that, arguably US trade policy pushed them into the hands of their militarists and was the motivation for the concept of the "Greater East-Asian Coprosperity Sphere".)
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Russia is an organized crime outfit posing as a nation-state.  Sanctions, schmanctions.

To really get Russia, start a campaign of sabotage to sink their fleet of ghost tankers.

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Tariffs only work as a threat if the country they are imposed against has significant trade with the country imposing, either in total volume or in the importance to the country's economy.  Russia's trade with the US is negligible.  And what banking sanctions can possibly hit when Russian banks have been banned from the SWIFT payment system?

Trump is threatening essentially nothing.  The only real threat to Putin is the thing Trump has decided to stop:  supply of armaments and intelligence to Ukraine.

I am really not sure where Trump got the idea that tariffs are some sort of magic wand.  The only place they might be useful is against China, and he's imposing lighter tariffs against them than against friendly countries.  I guess the lesson of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff and anti-Japanese trade restriction in the 1930's is completely lost in the mists of history:  tariffs and trade restrictions imposed on friendly countries are a great way to turn them into unfriendly countries.  (Japan had been an Allied power in WWI and was eager for trade with the US before that, arguably US trade policy pushed them into the hands of their militarists and was the motivation for the concept of the "Greater East-Asian Coprosperity Sphere".)


Great post!