The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation giving Donald Trump broad powers to impose sanctions on Russia and tariffs of up to 100% on countries that buy Russian oil and gas. It will now go to Trump to be signed into law.
The article is from September 17th. Who knows what happens to this policy now. But it's still quite possible the USA will sanction other countries for buying Russian oil, because they want the oil for themselves.
Idk how we are going to tariff ourselves but I’m sure it’s not a 5d chess move.
The double standard of USA is insane, USA is a despicable country reserving rights to punish others for what they do themselves.
Also USA should now b sanctioned by the rest of the world for doing exactly what they demand others don't. USA is a traitor to their allies, and that should not go unpunished.
I agree but how does that punishment get played out? Like if we manage to kick the fascists out, and rebuild a semblance of of a society, how do we pay reparations to the entire world? I mean we can grind up the billionaires and give people their money but we have $40 TRILLION in debt. There's not paying that back.
What is a mechanism of punishment for a society who so plainly doesn't give a shit about anyone outside their borders?
Nationalize and publicise the research data and other intellectual property of the large corps. That could be helpful.
The US still hasn’t made reparations internally, my tribe for instance was promised a voting member of congress over 100 years ago who still hasn’t been seated… Native Americans didn’t even get the right to vote until the 1970s.
I wouldn’t hold your breath for any of the countries doing bullshit to ever atone for anything.
Unfortunately this is the most likely scenario.
Didn't Trump just thanked Putin for agreeing to send diesel to the US?
Obviously that is very different and way more acceptable. You see Russia selling cheap oil to USA benefit USA which is good. Russia selling cheap oil to India doesn't really help USA, which is bad.
If India paid a 10% tariff to USA for the oil they import from Russia, it would be much much better.
It's not really that hard to understand. America first!
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Cut out the middleman. 10% tariff payable directly to Trump.
So, greed?
The spin they have is that Russian diesel was banned for export by Russia itself due to the shortages they were having.
So they can say it was “Ukraines war” causing it to happen, and Trump figured it out by cutting a deal with Russia to release it to the world.
It also makes continued (successful) waging of the war Ukraine needs to in order to get the orcs out something that is now against US foreign policy.
I really do wonder what Epstein recorded for Putin to have the “most powerful man in the world” acting like such a little bitch.
Fuck Trump. I hope he gets Ghaddafi’d
America is getting not even a mornings worth of energy from Russia. Those numbers sound big until you realize that America uses about 4.1 million barrels of diesel a day
For first shipment of 100,000 tons, that works out to be 733,000 barrels.
Even when Russia ramps up to 1,000,000 tons, it works out to 1.5 days of energy for America.
This does nothing to help not only the US or the rest of the world, but it does provide a lifeline to Donald’s puppet master with extra money to continue buying munitions from China, Iran, and North Korea in their war against Ukraine.
It’s another grift sound bite from a pedophile that was voted into power by a sick populace.
uhmm
aren't WE buying Russian oil??
And by imposing tariffs on other buyers, you may be able to decrease demand for Russian fossil fuels, and thus be able buy more yourself and/or buy for cheaper. Definitely not playing nice. But if I was Moscow I would absolutely have a problem with anyone trying to discourage the usual trade partners of Russia from continuing to do trade.
Right and wrong, and even just internal consistency, are for peasants. This is just profitable/convenient. 🤷♂️
So this is from Sept 17th in case anyone else is confused, when we still wanted to punish Russia for being bad.
Now they're great and going to give little Donnie all the gas to try and save a couple votes.
Timing.
It hasn't even been a month and already this has aged poorly.
Everything associated with Demented Don ages poorly. Anyone who does a deal with him is likely to be done over.
"discussed at a high level...". translates precisely to another idiotic idea by Trump that further screws the population of the US.
Even as an active detractor of Mr. Modi, I think it likely that he will outmaneuver Trump without meeting him head on.
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So they’re going to sanction India in the same week that they did a deal with Putin to supply diesel.
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