Russian President Vladimir Putin smiles during his meeting with workers during the visit to the Avtovaz automotive plant on January 28, 2025 in Togliatti, Russia.
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The Vladimir Putin of Russia warned that Europe “will quickly be at the foot of the master” after the American president Donald Trump imposed prices in Canada, Mexico and China, causing a collapse and a global market alarm Among European allies.
Commenting on Trump’s decision this weekend to impose trade tasks on the nearest American business partners, the Kremlin said on Monday that it observed the construction of “tensions” between the United States and its allies.
“You know, there are a lot of tensions there, so, of course, we have no desire to be associated with all this in any way or to assess it in any way” , said journalists to the Kremlin press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, in his daily press briefing.
“Let the countries participate in this process settle it,” he said, according to the comments reported by the Ria Novosti State press agency, and translated by Reuters.
Trump sent global markets to a fall on Monday after announcing a 25% rate on imports from Mexico and Canada and a 10% levy on goods from China. Prices are expected to come into force on Tuesday.
The president said that the European Union prices could follow “very soon”, but said that there could be an agreement with the United Kingdom which, unlike other trade partners in the United States, has a relationship more balanced commercial with its transatlantic ally.
EU officials previously suggested that the block could respond to American prices “in a proportional manner”, the European Commission echoing that it “would respond” to any American task.
While under the enormous weight of international sanctions because of its invasion of Ukraine, Russia benefits from American prices on its business partners because they are likely to undergo high economic success.
The prices are also sowing the disarray among the allies of old people – partners who, like the United States under former president Joe Biden, sought to weaken the elite and the economy of Russia with punitive measures designed for Moscow’s economic and geopolitical power in Strymy.
Moscow hopes for a more favorable relationship with Washington now that Trump is back to power, since he and Putin have had cordial relationships in the past, With the two leaders expressing admiration for each other, before.
Putin: Trump will “restore order”
On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated President Trump, saying that his second administration “would restore order” in Europe.
“I assure you: Trump, with his character, with his persistence, he will restore the order quite quickly. And all, you will see – it will happen quickly, soon – they will all be held at the feet of the Master and Magnise will a little the tail.
Then President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a joint press conference after their summit on July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Finland.
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Putin did not give any additional explanation on the way in which Trump could “restore order” – and we do not know what he was referring to with his comments – but Moscow expressed hope that his own relationship with the states- United could improve under Trump.
The American allies in Europe fear, however, that the president prevents Ukraine military funding, and could push kyiv in peace talks to end the war, which approaches his third anniversary. Putin said last month that he hoped that he and Trump could soon come together to discuss war and energy prices.
Ukraine fears that it will be pushed to a “bad” peace agreement in which it is obliged to concede the territory to Russia, and that Moscow will come together before targeting it in the future.
European leaders should discuss the imminent threat of American prices when they meet in Brussels on Monday, although, ostensibly, The key theme of Reunion is to strengthen their defense strategy.
Trump has already warned European leaders that they had to be responsible for their own security, castigating NATO allies for not having respected defending expenses and saying last month that he could ask them to spend again more for the defense.
If Trump draws American funding for Ukraine, Europe will have to face a decision to assume the financial burden of Ukraine alone. A number of leaders – in particular those in Eastern Europe who are considered to be more user -friendly terms with the Kremlin – are already skeptical about more sanctions against Russia and funding for Ukraine.
Criticizing its European counterparts on Sunday, Putin said that European leaders on the continent lacked conviction in their convictions.
Generating former European leaders such as Charles de Gaulle, Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder in Germany, Putin said that these leaders “had their own opinion and the courage to fight for this opinion put it in practical work.”
“Today, there are practically no such people there,” said Putin, Ria Novosti reported.
