Posted on 01/16/2025 9:58:27 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Treasury Secretary-nominee Scott Bessent told senators Thursday that he would be “100 percent on board” with increasing sanctions on Russia’s major oil companies if President-elect Trump supports that strategy as a way to end the war in Ukraine.
“If any officials in the Russian Federation are watching this confirmation hearing, they should know that if I’m confirmed and if President Trump requests as part of his strategy to end the Ukraine war, that I will be 100 percent on board for taking sanctions up, especially on the Russian oil majors, to levels that would bring the Russia Federation to the table,” Bessent said when asked about sanctions against Russia by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.).
Bessent called the war in Ukraine “one of the greatest tragedies of my adult life.”
“And ending that as soon as possible, and any role the Treasury can play in that — if confirmed, I would like to do,” he said.
Bessent argued that the Biden administration’s sanctions on Russia “were not fulsome enough.”
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We should be cutting a deal with Russia—and stop the billions going to Ukraine.
Bribe Putin and we can save a fortune.
Well said.
“He was a partner at Soros Fund Management and the founder of Key Square Group, a global macro investment firm.”
Yale.. and Donated to Obama and Hillary.
“He was a partner at Soros Fund Management and the founder of Key Square Group, a global macro investment firm.”
Yale.. and Donated to Obama and Hillary.
“Bessent and his husband, former New York City prosecutor John Freeman, have two children”
Yale, homo, Soros, Uke fan...
Why is this clown the nominee?
We need leverage wherever we can get it. We surely do not have it on the battlefield in Ukraine.
And of course... from SC. Home of Mace, Scott, and Graham,
“Bribe Putin and we can save a fortune.”
All Putin has to do is send his soldiers home to their families and this all ends tomorrow. Same with Zelensky. The EU can spend their own money to help build back Russia and Ukraine.
Good plan—write everybody a check and end this nonsense.
Russians don’t give a hug about sanctions nor do the guys they trade with.
And one more time.
The optimal solution is replacing Zelensky with a military junta of Ukraine senior officers.
They will command their troops to withdraw and so will Putin.
As for drawing the lines on territory, that doesn’t have to be the first matter addressed. Just get a new govt in Ukraine and embrace technocratic government, removing or killing all CIA and MI6 operatives.
Ukraine for Ukraine. The leadership will be Ukraine military with no political agenda. Nothing else would be trustworthy.
He sounds like someone the rats would pick. How did this fool get nominated?
Putin is eager to get this war behind him. We’re not likely to need sanctions.
Yale.. and Donated to Obama and Hillary.
He and his husband have two children.
Global macro ?
GlobalHomo !!!! You can’t make this stuff up.
Do you really believe that they have senior officers who aren’t puppets?
Of course they are puppets. That’s why Russia would agree to it.
The media will get to film Russia troops withdrawing from the front and won’t film the Ukraine troops doing the same.
This will be enough for the politicians who kept it going to pretend it is all fair. It will be their face saver.
It will be a year or two before it’s clear who won. That’s long enough to empty the front page.
They are CIA puppets, not Russia’s.
Russia is not our ideological enemy. Obama started the conflict by instigating a coup against an elected pro-Russian government on Russia’s border. We should be removing our existing sanctions and trying to bring Russia into an alliance of nations opposing the one world LGBT socialists in the EU. Meanwhile, we do little about the far greater threats of China and Muslim nations.
On every other thread about this fellow, the groupthink is that this dude is extremely competent so his habit of sodomy doesn’t matter.
But here?
Oh, NOOOooooooooooo! He doesn’t bow down and worship before Putin Almighty. Therefore, groupthink holds that he’s the lowest of the low, and his faggotry is damning ...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
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