In a letter to the Allies published on Social Truth on Saturday 13 September, US President Donald Trump announced that he was prepared to adopt tough sanctions against Russia if all the Allies did likewise.
“I am ready to do major sanctions on Russia when all NATO nations have agreed, and started, to do the same thing, and when all NATO countries stop buying oil from Russia”, he explained. Hungary and Slovakia, in particular, continue to import it.
According to Mr Trump, the purchase of Russian oil “greatly” weakens the Allies’ position and negotiating power over Russia.
Trump called on NATO to impose “50 to 100% tariffs on China, to be fully withdrawn after the war is ended (...) [and] will also be of great help ending this deadly, but ridiculous, war”. He felt that Beijing exercised “strong control, and even grip” over Russia, and that these “powerful” tariffs would break this stranglehold.
Specifying that the war was “Biden’s and Zelensky’s”, Mr Trump said that he was only there “to help stop it and save thousands of Russian and Ukrainian lives”. According to him, “if NATO does as I say, the war will end quickly, and all of those lives will be saved! If not, you are just wasting my time, and the time, energy, and money of the United States”. (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)