... it wouldn't change much for Russia.
- 100% tariffs on Russian oil buyers would risk price spikes, global economy meltdown
- Trump: current oil price is great, helps tame inflation
- Tariff threat seen as political grandstanding by some trade partners
- Trump's sanctions on Russia so far not directly over Ukraine war
- China adapts to US sanctions, continues Venezuelan oil imports
Trump DOES NOT do anything which is not a political grandstanding, while not understanding that it weakens his (and the US) already weak position even more and makes it untenable. It is as simple as two times two. But we all know why he does it--it is not a statesmanship issue, it is a psychiatric one.
Now the US "allies" (LOL) from UK got a warning:
The United Kingdom would not hesitate to sabotage a potential thaw in US-Russia relations, a top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Friday. Nikolay Patrushev, a longtime national security official and senior Kremlin adviser, accused London of being prepared to stage a so-called ‘false flag’ incident in order to derail efforts by US President Donald Trump to resolve the conflict in Ukraine and normalize ties with Moscow. “If necessary, London would easily stab Washington in the back. I believe officials in the White House realize what kind of ‘ally’ they are dealing with,” Patrushev told RIA Novosti.
As was pointed out not for once--the UK is a military-economic paper tiger and the only thing they can do is terrorism (they call those "operations" in London) through their proxies in 404. They, however, may try to "false flag" the US Navy. I am sure that Mr. Naryshkin had a discussion with Mr. Ratcliffe precisely about this contingency. Europe meanwhile, UK included, better listen to a famous Russian deep undercover spy Andrei Bezrukov: