Finally! 🙌🏻
Friday, Trump has signed House bill 5334 into law, which directs the President to sanction countries that are top five buyers of Russian oil with tariffs of up to 100 percent.
Enjoy your weekend, Vlad. 😘
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@randahl Tariffs sound strong on paper, but do secondary trade measures actually make a tangible difference on the ground? With so many critical gaps in air defense and frontline supplies, I wonder if moves like this risk overshadowing the urgent support Ukraine needs right now. What do you think – does this genuinely move the needle against Moscow, or is it more symbolic?
@randahl How strange, he actually did something I agree with. Is that a first time?
@randahl enforce it, he will not. Waste of time this is — Political Yoda
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Hold up.
He signed it.
Doesn't mean he will follow through.
@ChrisHolladay very true. But I am quite sure Congress will use this to force his hand.
Behind the scenes there is a majority for Ukraine support.
@randahl looking forward to the implementation, but I doubt he will really hurt his puppet master b/c the law doesn‘t coerce the President to impose sanctions and there are too many exemptions … in the end we‘ll see more tarifs than sanctions
Yes, but does Trump know that?
@randahl I wouldn’t cheer to soon. No countries are named in the bill and Trump would probably rather use the bill to put tarifs on the large 🇪🇺 countries still buying 🇷🇺 gas/oil (as a punishment for 🇨🇦 association) than actually use the bill to do anything against Putin and 🇷🇺