President Donald Trump said he was “pissed off” to Russian President Vladimir Putin and would consider “secondary prices” on Russian oil if a ceasefire with Ukraine cannot be joined, reported NBC News.
Trump said that he was “very angry” about Putin’s recent comments suggesting ways to install a new leadership in Ukraine and the president of the Volodymyr Zelenskiy key line, reported NBC, citing a telephone interview with Trump on Sunday.
“I was upset about it. But if an agreement is not concluded, and if I think it was Russia’s fault, I’m going to put secondary sanctions against Russia,” said Trump. He told NBC that he planned to speak to Putin this week.
Putin tested Trump to see how far he can go to Europe to alleviate sanctions against Russia. Trump has portrayed his threat to Putin as a negotiation tool.
“If Russia and I cannot conclude an agreement on the end of bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault – which is not the case – but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I will put secondary prices on oil, on all the outgoing oil of Russia,” he said.
“It would be that if you buy Russia oil, you cannot do business in the United States. There will be a price of 25% on all-all over oil, a price of 25 to 50 points throughout the oil,” he said.
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While Ukraine said that it would immediately observe a cease-fire, the Kremlin seemed to take the White House off guard by declaring that its participation depended on the abolition of sanctions from the Russian agricultural bank, or the RSHB, and other financial institutions involved in foreign trade in food and fertilizers.
After three days of negotiations in Saudi Arabia last week, the United States announced on Tuesday that Ukraine and Russia had accepted the Black Sea truce as the next stage of Trump’s efforts to end the war, after their acceptance of a 30-day stop at the strikes on energy infrastructure.
Trump Mondayseemed to inventA new economic tactic of the United States by threatening what he nicknamed the “secondary prices” on countries that buy Venezuela oil to stifle his oil trade with other nations.
The threat, confirmed in a Trump decree, said that countries could cope with 25% trade prices with the United States if it bought oil and gas in Venezuela, which is already subject to heavy American sanctions. This decision was to put pressure on Venezuela for “tens of thousands of high-level criminals and other criminals” that Trump said that Venezuela had sent to the United States.
This story was initially presented on Fortune.com
