Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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dark_gh0st_b0y said:

Isn't Trump right for once - regarding China tarrifs and banning Russian oil completely?

Of course coutries are still dependent so hopefully they stick to cutting it out by 2027, if Slovakia and Hungary reduce dependence it will be much easier for the whole of EU.
At the same time vulerable economies like France and Italy are dependent, sudden shocks might reduce public support for Ukraine.

Tarrifs on China would be easier and affect their cheap shipments flooding Europe, they support Putin's war already and that must not be okay.
I guess that would mean less Chinese bln investments in Europe.

EDIT: Oh shit he says it's Biden's and Zelensky's war, such a sick man. If he was president not only it would have happened, but Ukraine would not exist as of today. 40M people would literally live under dictaorship, fear and persecution, at best.

The issue is that he has created yet another excuse for delaying his "big scary consequences" on Russia, first it was 2 weeks, then it was 50 days, now it's when NATO completely stops buying Russian oil, despite the fact that Trump's best friend in NATO is Hungary's Viktor Orban, a big purchaser of Russian oil, he knows full well that Slovakia and Hungary won't completely cut themselves off from Russian oil and thus he has created an excuse for never punishing Russia, he has essentially shifted the blame for his cowardice onto NATO.

By the time that every single country in NATO stops buying a single drop of Russian oil, Trump won't be in office. It's a ridiculously unrealistic demand, there are countries in NATO that aren't even apart of EU either like Türkiye who will do whatever the fuck they want as Erdogan often does, he plays both sides. So while EU should absolutely cut Russian oil off entirely (and they've already made significant progress), even if the whole of Western Europe did so, there's still Hungary and Slovakia, who Trump never directly criticises, and then there's Türkiye who has no reason to follow what EU does and is the third largest buyer of Russian oil.

As for secondary sanctions on purchasers of Russian oil, I'm in favour of them, even on allies, even on ourselves, nobody should be funding Russia's war machine, but what I do not want us to follow is Trump's braindead tariff scattershot policy, it should be about the oil only, it has been a disaster for America and would kill Europe's economy, we need to be smarter and more surgical, the issue with secondary sanctions via EU is that they require unanimous backing so that's out because Hungary and Slovakia would say no, Lol.