I’m waiting for the “this will just make Russia stronger” crowd to chime in. Because if it really was true that sanctions just make them stronger, they would already have imposed them on themselves voluntarily a long time ago. Why wouldn’t you, if it just makes you stronger?
Well, then I guess they won’t mind as we drive down the price of oil and tax the crap out of their “allies.”
China doesn’t have allies. They have customers and suppliers. They don’t care where their oil comes from—they just want it cheap. If they can get it from the Saudis or Americans, they will. Same with India.
I am sure the folks in Moscow will be just fine. Those out in the countryside…I hear they excel when they suffer so it will be good for them too.
Peak a nuclear submarine just outside of Russia just to say hi. Routine drive by. I’ll trust on this issue. He knows the limits of his leverage better than anyone which is why he hasn’t been talking trash like the rest of them.
“Russia has developed immunity to sanctions, Kremlin says after Trump tightens ceasefire deadline”
well sure, if you feel no need to be able to build new passenger jets or replacement bombers or submarines or aircraft carriers ... after all, who needs those things, anyway ...
It’s amazing how much oil the Russians are still exporting:
Take a look at the two graphs about halfway down the page.
Nothing says “I’m gonna end this war in 24 hours” - like attempting to gain leverage over Russia by sanctioning India 8 months later.
Trump has found his tar-baby.
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The real problem they have is that Trump will want to keep upping the pressure to get a result.
Of course they don’t want sanctions, and eventually military support will increase.
Trump wants peace, he doesn’t want this war, however he also has shown a willingness to apply decisive military pressure.
Why are some Russian officials making threats against the US if they impose sanctions while other Russian officials say the sanctions will have no effect on them and only hurt the West?
Bessent:
Last month, the White House announced its maximum pressure campaign on Iran designed to collapse its already buckling economy. The Iranian economy is in disarray; 35% official inflation, has a currency that has depreciated 60% in the last 12 months, and an ongoing energy crisis. I know a few things about currency devaluations, and if I were an Iranian, I would get all of my money out of the Rial now.
This precarious state exists before our Maximum Pressure campaign, designed to collapse Iranian oil exports from the current 1.5-1.6, million barrels per day, back to the trickle they were when President Trump left office.
Iran has developed a complex shadow network of financial facilitators and black-market oil shippers via a ghost fleet to sell oil, petrochemical and other commodities to finance its exports and generate hard currency.
As such, we have elevated a sanctions campaign against this export infrastructure, targeting all stages of Iran’s oil supply chain. We have coupled this with vigorous government engagement and private sector outreach.
We will close off Iran’s access to the international financial system by targeting regional parties that facilitate the transfer of its revenues. Treasury is prepared to engage in frank discussions with these countries. We are going to shut down Iran’s oil sector and drone manufacturing capabilities.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0045
March 6, 2025
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I think Trump’s talks with Putin on lessening sanctions and the West’s reentry into the Russian markets did not go as planned.
Putin told him that when Western companies left, Russian companies stood up their places... after much hard work... and that Putin will not allow the West to compete inside Russia against home grown companies.
China has helped Russia to an economic miracle in the face of Western Sanctions. In the Russian Far East, everything changed in 2022; China assisted Russia and the trust has grown replacing the Russian fear that once preoccupied the Kremlin.
The Year 2022 for historical purposes is when both Russia and China were forced to join together in the face of the US Pivot to Asia to have the 2026-2027 planned war with China America had been talking about since the Clinton Admin’s last two years. American policy was to draw down EUropean military footprint and relocate to Asia. We have been relocation Depot level maintenance and warehousing since 2002.
Brics is a economical entity that is not a military alliance. Brics is predicated upon several core declarations, the first of which is no member can participate in sanctions against another member state (NOW TRUMP’S ANTI-BRICS TRADE COMES INTO FOCUS FOR THE UNINITIATED). Also, trade can be conducted in any manner agreeable and can be a combination of barter, trade, currencies, etc., as long as both parties are happy.
The reason Trump is having difficuities with his personal trade policy is that American and Western Investment is going to be kept at a distance in the future by Brics nations who see in real time the weaponization of the USD, SWIFT, Sanctions, and seizure of foreign assets by the West. Those joining Brics have seen the Coup Regime Change operations from afar or at home and will keep the West’s NGOs out. Market pentration by the West may well be over for the forseeable future.
The failures of diplomacy, or the actual lack thereof, by the rouge Obama who illegally seized Russian Diplomatic Missions over false pretenses, followed by both Trump and Biden buildups in Ukraine have not gone un-noticed by the rest of the world.
Obama’s actions against Trump/associates had internation consequences as he and Hildabeast blammed Russia.
Russia is doing just fine. They have thousands of shell companies to get what the West refuses to openly trade. They economic allies in Brics who will provide acceptable replacements.
Russian auto and aircraft industries are now functioning after several years of sanction pain; in fact every sector of the economy has recovered by replacement of Western trade.
It BEARS repeating that the Russian Bear is recovering and further sanctions will do little more damage other than to to the West thru it’s self-imposed isloation via sanctions.
Trump is setting the conditons for the US that Japan faced prior to WWII; only we are doing it to ourselves.
US Forces are being told down to battalion level that US Forces will be engaged in active operations against Russia in the near term. God help our troops. The battlefield of today is nothing like that in my day.
There is no diplomacy that can pull the US back from the brink of world war that we are forcing upon the globe.
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When you're a society of peasants, sanctions just don't have the economic impact.
