... geopolitical level thinkers make. They just don't.
Washington is prepared to tighten the “egregiously weak” sanctions imposed on Russia by the administration of former US President Joe Biden if it helps accelerate a peace agreement in the Ukraine conflict, the US Treasury Department has said. The US sanctions on Russia, which were first imposed in 2014 after Crimea’s reunification with Moscow, have since been expanded through executive orders and were extended last week through March 2026. Russia considers them illegal and has repeatedly demanded their removal. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the Economic Club of New York on Thursday that the US would no longer apply “lackadaisical” restrictions that allow circumvention. Bessent criticized the Biden administration for holding back on tougher energy sanctions over concerns about rising gas prices, questioning the rationale behind providing “substantial US military and financial support over the past three years” without enforcing matching restrictions.
Bessent, being gay (here is a hint for his attitudes towards Russia) and having worked in Soros Fund and being a product of degree mill from Yale, has a very faint idea about real world and especially Russia. It is the case with most US secretaries of treasury who preside over the finances of a bankrupt country, the US that is. But sure, let him try.