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President Donald Trump said he is “strongly considering” issuing large-scale sanctions and tariffs on Russia to get a ceasefire and settlement deal on the table to end the war in Ukraine.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    Same guy that said sanctions don’t work and was trying to remove Russian sanctions a couple days ago. Complete clown show.

    • Airowird@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Plus, there is virtually no more trade anyway.

      Compared to 2021, their trade is down about 90%

      Pure PR move to try to look impartial. You can tell by the fact Trump’s original owners the Kremlin haven’t bothered to respond to it.

  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    2 days ago

    This is entirely performative. You don’t threaten to sanction banks and give investors time to pull their money, and it’s not like Russia cares about investing in our rapidly declining market anyway.

    If Trump was ‘so concerned’ about Russia’s attacks on Ukraine, he’d reinstate intelligence.

  • andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    332·
    2 days ago

    Big toddler just learned his first word! “Ta-riff!” Now he can’t stop repeating it!

    “Say hi to Uncle Trudeau?” “Ta-riff!”

    " What do you give papa Putin?"“Ta-rrff!” giggles

  • dnick@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    111·
    2 days ago

    This has been a really long ‘day one’ process. Pretty soon his ‘i will stop the war my first day in office’ will rival putins plan to conquer Ukraine in 3 days.

    • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Zeleinski hit him with that one already and it was fairly funny to watch both of them scramble to respond.

  • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.comEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    Just the other day he was directing people to draft up how to remove all sanctions on Russia.

    Maybe we could find a way to implement a 1 week lag on anything he demands, if it’s countermanded in that time then the week starts over again. Kind of like a retractable leash on caption chaos.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    2 days ago

    Maybe, just maybe, someone in the right position could question his mental health status

  • sleepmode@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    Oop optics are down gotta spin some bullshit that they’ll “forget” they did when flip flopping creates “weak leadership” headlines later. Back and forth.

  • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
    111·
    2 days ago

    hahahahahahaha oh how cute, trumps trying to play to the cameras. fascist douchebag already gave the game away. allies know it, citizens know it, this mothefucker has to be stopped.

  • Someone@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Is there any other country that has isolated themselves from as many possible allies in recent history? North Korea is at the very least tolerated by China and Russia, who does the US still have positive relations with? Maybe Israel?

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
    1·
    2 days ago

    I mean, I guess we’ll see. Donald just spews out whatever comes to his spongey brain at any given moment.

    I’ve long thought that even if Russia is supporting Donald, that doesn’t really make Donald Russia’s “operative.” That gives far too much credit to Donald. He never keeps any agreement he’s made for one second longer than he thinks it’s personally benefiting him.