The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation giving Donald Trump broad powers to impose sanctions on Russia and tariffs of up to 100% on countries that buy Russian oil and gas. It will now go to Trump to be signed into law.

  • nogooduser@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    So they’re going to sanction India in the same week that they did a deal with Putin to supply diesel.

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      10 hours ago

      The article is from September 17th. Who knows what happens to this policy now. But it’s still quite possible the USA will sanction other countries for buying Russian oil, because they want the oil for themselves.