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.
Idk how we are going to tariff ourselves but I’m sure it’s not a 5d chess move.
So they’re going to sanction India in the same week that they did a deal with Putin to supply diesel.
The hypocrisy is incredibly embarrassing, as an American
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.
America is getting not even a mornings worth of energy from Russia. Those numbers sound big until you realize that America uses about 4.1 million barrels of diesel a day
For first shipment of 100,000 tons, that works out to be 733,000 barrels.
Even when Russia ramps up to 1,000,000 tons, it works out to 1.5 days of energy for America.
This does nothing to help not only the US or the rest of the world, but it does provide a lifeline to Donald’s puppet master with extra money to continue buying munitions from China, Iran, and North Korea in their war against Ukraine.
It’s another grift sound bite from a pedophile that was voted into power by a sick populace.
Didn’t Trump just thanked Putin for agreeing to send diesel to the US?
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/09/trump-putin-russian-diesel-us-global-markets.html
Obviously that is very different and way more acceptable. You see Russia selling cheap oil to USA benefit USA which is good. Russia selling cheap oil to India doesn’t really help USA, which is bad.
If India paid a 10% tariff to USA for the oil they import from Russia, it would be much much better.
It’s not really that hard to understand. America first!
/sIt’s not about benefiting America, though, just benefiting Trump by trying to lower fuel prices before the election.
So, greed?
Absolutely, infinite greed and total lack of morals.
The double standard of USA is insane, USA is a despicable country reserving rights to punish others for what they do themselves.
Also USA should now b sanctioned by the rest of the world for doing exactly what they demand others don’t. USA is a traitor to their allies, and that should not go unpunished.
A pariah USA is the future that is on the cards.
This has been true for some time, it’s just that with Trump it’s gone to another level.
I agree but how does that punishment get played out? Like if we manage to kick the fascists out, and rebuild a semblance of of a society, how do we pay reparations to the entire world? I mean we can grind up the billionaires and give people their money but we have $40 TRILLION in debt. There’s not paying that back.
What is a mechanism of punishment for a society who so plainly doesn’t give a shit about anyone outside their borders?
Not respecting US patents would be huge.
Nationalize and publicise the research data and other intellectual property of the large corps. That could be helpful.
The US still hasn’t made reparations internally, my tribe for instance was promised a voting member of congress over 100 years ago who still hasn’t been seated… Native Americans didn’t even get the right to vote until the 1970s.
I wouldn’t hold your breath for any of the countries doing bullshit to ever atone for anything.
Unfortunately this is the most likely scenario.
So really this gives the Presidency more control over tariffs? I wonder how the current president will abuse it.
