Peace in 50 Days or 100% Tariffs
President Donald Trump told journalists on Monday at a meeting with NATO chief Mark Rutte that European NATO members would finance billions of US military equipment, including Patriotic missiles, for Ukraine and threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin with an indirect massive price of 100% if he did not make peace in 50 days.
Trump explained that if Putin had not ended his invasion of Ukraine in 50 days, he will start his proposed regime of “secondary prices” on the Russian economy. While Western States have imposed direct prices on Russia for years with a mixed success, the concept of secondary prices is to place punitive withdrawals from countries that buy Russian exports, encouraging them to disconnect from negotiation with Moscow.
China and India are the biggest Russian crude oil customers, for example, and could face a new 100% punishment rate to do business with Russia in 50 days, early September.
President Trump also announced a new agreement with NATO European Allies to allow a new weapon rush to Ukraine to continue to fight Russia. Unlike the last administration, the president said, these weapons would be manufactured in America but entirely funded by Europe, effectively creating a massive influx of foreign investment in American companies and jobs.
Trump also explained how much lady Melania Trump is an animated force when he is deeply involved in the negotiation of the peace of the Ukrainian war.
“I speak to [Putin a lot]… I always hang up and say “although it was a beautiful telephone call”, then the missiles are launched in Kyiv “, recalls Trump:” I go home, I say to the First Lady: “You know, I spoke to Vladimir today, we had a wonderful conversation”. And then she said, “Oh really? Another city is just affected. “”
The sanctions and announcements of weapons were made alongside the secretary general of NATO, Mark Rutte, who described the agreement as “really big”.
“Europe intensifies,” he said. “Ukraine can get their hands on a really massive number of military equipment for air defense but also on missiles, ammunition, etc.”
“So, if I was Vladimir Putin today and I hear what you plan to do in 50 days, I would reconsider that I should take negotiations on Ukraine more seriously,” he added.
The exact terms of the weapon agreement have not been made explicit, but the two men clearly indicated that the initial precipitation would be provided by European states sending more of their own arms, missiles and ammunition stores in Ukraine, then to fill their reserves with a new production from the United States.
“We have concluded an agreement today where we are going to send them weapons and they will pay for them,” said President Trump. “They will be sent to NATO, NATO can choose to send some of them to other countries where we can get some additional speed where the country can free up something, it will be mainly in the form of a replacement.”
“The countries will quickly move equipment to Ukraine, then the United States later reversing that because the speed is gasoline,” said Rutte, “considering what the United States needs, it is not as if you could have a list of races where you order whatever you want, because you are the police officer around the world.”
In a specific case, said President Trump, an unrecognized country that was about to receive 17 complete air defense systems from the Patriot missiles had agreed to delay the taking of this delivery, so that some of these ready -to -use batteries could go to Ukraine. They would then wait for future production to make their honored delivery.
Ukraine Prix in particular Patriotic missiles because they are effective in shooting down Russian ballistic missiles that are raining daily on Ukrainian cities.
On the prices on Russia’s world customers and the Russian economy, more generally, President Trump said he was “very unhappy” with Vladimir Putin to have always been ready to talk about peace but not to act. On punitive prices having just denied Russia its global trade partners and its allies, President Trump said: “We are going to make very serious prices … making secondary prices if we do not have a 50 -day agreement, it is very simple, and they will be 100%, and that is how it could not be simpler. I hope we will not do it ”.
One of the main areas of Russian exports which managed to continue to gain kremlin of large quantities of foreign liquidity during the war is energy.
China and India dominate the purchases of coal and petroleum, analyze the state and the slap of a mega-100 price per hundred on these countries can be quite difficult. But in other areas, even strong allies in the United States and Ukraine continue to buy huge Russian energy volumes, even if they sanction and criticize Moscow elsewhere.
Turkey – a member of NATO – is an important importer of Russian coal and refined petroleum products. The European Union, despite everything, continues to import record levels of Russian liquid natural gas (LNG) to maintain the lights through the continent.
President Trump recommended that Russia stop fighting and focuses rather on the opening of trade to the West at a time of peace, declaring: “From Putin’s point of view, their economy takes place very badly, he must recover his economy, save his country … He has a big country for trade, he could use workers instead of war. It has great potential ”.
