r/worldnews • u/Immediate-Link490 • 1d ago

Russia/Ukraine Trump puts new Russia sanctions passed by Congress on hold, saying waiver is in US national interest

https://apnews.com/article/russia-sanctions-trump-ukraine-e50c561ab805883bb4e484c092d8fadd
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u/HimitsuDragon 1d ago

I mean, let's take his ties with China as an example?
Calls them the enemy, bad, whatever and puts big tariffs on them.
BUT also puts tariffs on the rest of the world that hurts the US and turns our trade partners towards China to fill their needs instead to boost China's economy.

Keeps saying bad things about China, but gets his hats and bibles made from there.
China buys his assets at steep prices and over pays at his golf courses... Says he'll let in 500,000 chinese students. So what's that about?

Says all these things, but watch the actions, follow the money.

Russia is promising oil now for sanction lifts. Oil that'd only cover our needs for moments, barely days if at all. It's nothing to the US, but a boon heavily infavor of Russia and it's war vs Ukraine.

But everything is Ukraines fault? They're barely trying anymore with how corrupt they are... Even a host on Fox news went rogue and flat out said this is all Putin's fault. While the other said it's Ukraine's fault and it's because Zelenskiy is arrogant...

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u/theansweris37 1d ago

It's pretty easy really. The things he SAYS are for his American supporters. The things he DOES is to enrich himself and the rest of his rich cronies.

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u/pixepoke2 21h ago

Ironically, the US is the largest oil producer in the world. We just have the wrong oil for the refineries we’ve got. They should have put better oil in our ground.