Summary

The White House has directed the State and Treasury Departments to draft a proposal for lifting some U.S. sanctions on Russia as part of Trump’s effort to restore ties and end the Ukraine war.

The proposal could ease restrictions on select Russian entities and oligarchs, though it’s unclear what the U.S. would receive in return.

Trump has signaled openness to sanctions relief despite previously threatening harsher measures.

Talks between U.S. and Russian officials have intensified, with economic cooperation, including rare earth minerals, emerging as a key topic.

  • Echo Dot
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    15 months ago

    The White House has directed the State and Treasury Departments to draft a proposal for lifting some U.S. sanctions on Russia as part of Trump’s effort to restore ties and end the Ukraine war.

    Yeah that’s definitely the reason they’re doing it.

  • @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    Does anyone else remember the 2016 debate with Hillary Clinton where she accused Trump of being a puppet for Putin, and he interrupted “No puppet, no puppet! You’re the puppet!”

    Or when Alnur Mussayev, the Russian officer who served in the KGB’s 6th Directorate in Moscow, said that Trump was recruited as a Russian agent in 1987, under the codename “Krasnov”, when he went to Russia for a “real estate project”.

    • @[email protected]
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      235 months ago

      Remember when the SS lost all of their communication records from Jan 6th?

      Europe please be ready. My tea leaves are pointing towards the use of nuclear weapons in Europe while the us is distracted with civil unrest.

        • Fair Fairy
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          25 months ago

          This is a total lie. there is no sense to keep funding stupid usaid propaganda - it keeps population dumb

          • @[email protected]
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            55 months ago

            Well Russia was doing all this same stuff back the too so I’m not really wrong. They certainly aren’t more peaceful these days.

          • Brumefey
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            95 months ago

            it keeps population dumb

            You mean dumb like all those Trump Musk supporters ? Or dumb because educational programs have been defunded, and fed by social media and classic media controlled by the rich men having power ?

      • @[email protected]
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        125 months ago

        Which has nothing to do with anything, but I bet it sounded cool in the goo in your numbskull.

        • Fair Fairy
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          15 months ago

          I disagree with Trump on many things, just not Ukraine Russia

          • @[email protected]
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            95 months ago

            “I put at least some minimal effort into looking like I don’t just fantasize gargling their balls. Even though I do.”

      • @[email protected]
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        205 months ago

        Yeah, note instead of Russia being a communist authoritarian hellscape, it’s a capitalist authoritarian hellscape.

        Very different

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          He came into power almost a decade after the Cold War ended, so I don’t get what you mean

          • Echo Dot
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            15 months ago

            You’re an idiot then. He was literally a KGB agent. This isn’t even hard to find information, if you Google him it’s on Wikipedia you’ve done literally zero research.

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        Both Putin and Trump are 80s relics and so it matters little how much the wor[l]d has changed, the cold war facet applies to the blindly pro-russian stance of Trump.

        Of all the stances to take, this one is insane. Almost every violent conflict has shades of gray, nuance rather than unambiguous good and bad. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is one of those supremely rare straightforward ones where Russia is just straight up the bad guys.

        • Fair Fairy
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          5 months ago

          If china is about to kill you economy, who gives a damn about Russia?b

          And u clearly have no historical knowledge of that conflict.

  • @[email protected]
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    45 months ago

    something something treason

    Congrats to Putin, he really knows how to play stupid people.

  • @[email protected]
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    15 months ago

    If you are a greedy person, the bigger Russia has a lot more to offer than protecting smaller Ukraine’s freedom.

    • @[email protected]
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      645 months ago

      Whether or not he’s a Russian asset is ultimately irrelevant. All that matters is that he is acting like a Russian asset. He’s doing everything a Russian asset would do. So it doesn’t actually matter if Putin has kompromat on Trump, because he is clearly willing to act like an asset even if he’s not.

  • tiredofsametab
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    Kick the US out of Nato and any special status in the UN. Sanction the everliving fuck out of everything US. This will destroy the retirement I was at least partially expecting to get, but fuck it.

    • @[email protected]
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      525 months ago

      Trump is such a master negotiator. Betray our allies, threaten to leave the UN, stop all cyber security operations against Russian, lift sanctions against Russia that are working, block Ukraine from joining the UN, and say that any chance of ending the war has to result in Ukraine ceding stolen territory.

      All before negotiations even start. What a mastermind.

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        There should be a rule in UN that any threat made to leave UN by the leader of the country should lead to immediate suspension and sanctions from the UN.

        If you want to leave, submit a resignation and leave, no theatrics and threats allowed even if you are a TV show host president like Trump.

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          the UN is just a clubhouse where people agree to talk. nothing more

          No country with nuclear weapons gives a flying fuck about what anyone at the UN says, coincidentally, many of them are permanent security council members.

      • @[email protected]
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        165 months ago

        Kind of proves there is no deep state right? Feels like they might have given the praetorian guard a nod.

    • @[email protected]
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      25 months ago

      neither of those things are possible.

      DJT is where he is, because of legalese. and as far as alliances and memberships to intnl groups go, the US is untouchable.

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          There is no mechanism to removing someone from NATO, or the UN, especially the UN Security council. literally meaning, there is no way it will be done that will be recognized

          a far more effective method would be for protesting nations to leave those orgs themselves. UNSC members could literally drop nuclear weapons on half the world, and still be untouchable in the UN. its a broken system that aimed to add permanent power to the victors of WW2. except, all countries are corruptable.

  • @[email protected]
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    395 months ago

    Codename Krasnov sure giving a lot away to Russia for nothing in exchange. Is this the Art of the Deal?

  • @[email protected]
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    55 months ago

    It’s like that scene at the end of Training Day when the Russian mob comes to kill Denzel Washington but it’s America.

  • @[email protected]
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    45 months ago

    Under Orange Krasnov, Lada, Kamaz, GAZ, etc…will replace the Big Three. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!

  • @[email protected]
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    45 months ago

    4D chess right here, put economic stress on our allies, but try to help out our enemies.

    If we dont know what we are doing, the enemy certainly cant anticipate our future actions!