Trump asks NATO countries to stop buying Russian oil to end the Ukraine War

President Trump said he believes more than Three -year war in Ukraine It would end if all NATO countries stop buying oil and imposed tariffs on China for their purchases of Russian oil.

Trump published in Truth Social on Saturday a letter supposedly sent to NATO in which he said he is “ready to make important sanctions on Russia” on the condition that all NATO countries stop buying Russian oil. The president said that the commitment of the military alliance to win the war in Ukraine “has been much less than 100%” and the purchase of Russian oil by some members is “shocking.”

“It must greatly weaken its negotiation and negotiation power position on Russia,” Trump wrote.

Since 2023, the NATO Türkiye member has been the third largest buyer of Russian oil, after China and India, according to the Clean Energy Research Center. Other members of the alliance of 32 states involved in the purchase of Russian oil include Hungary and Slovakia.

Trump’s letter arrives at a tense moment in the conflict for NATO after the recent incursion for Multiple Russian drones in the airspace of the Poland Alliance. He is being seen as a scalded movement by Russia and Poland knocked down several of the drones.

Earlier this week, Trump seemed to pretend the importance of the incident, saying that the incursion may not have been deliberate.

“It could have been a mistake,” he told reporters Thursday night. A day before, Mr. Trump issued a brief reaction in his social platform of truth: “What about Russia violating Poland airspace with drones? Here we go!”

The White House offered no clarification of Mr. Trump’s comments and Poland Most senior officials dismissed their suggestion It had been a mistake on Friday.

During the presidential campaign, Trump promised to end the war quickly. Some legislators in Congress are trying to persuade Mr. Trump to support a bill that hardens the sanctions, after the president received Putin in Alaska for conversations that failed to fulfill progress towards peace.

The president in his position said that a prohibition of Russian oil NATO, in addition to tariffs in China, “would also be of great help to end this mortal, but ridiculous,.”

Trump said NATO members should impose tariffs of 50% to 100% in China and withdraw them if the war that was launched with the invasion of Ukraine of Russia in 2022 of Ukraine.

“China has strong control and even grip, about Russia,” he published, and powerful tariffs “will break that grip.”

The president of the United States has already placed an additional import tax in the goods of India, which has said it is to punish it for buying Russian energy products.

In his position, Trump said the responsibility of the war fell to his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. As in previous statements on the subject, Russian President Vladimir Putin did not include in that list, who launched the invasion.

The publication of Mr. Trump is based on a call on Friday with finance ministers of the group of seven, an industrialized democracies forum. During the call, the US trade representative Jamieson Greer and the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, asked their counterparts to have a “unified front” to cut “the income that finances the Putin War Machine,” according to Greer’s office.

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