Russia Not on US Tariff List Despite Broad Global Reach | Sweden Herald

It's a logical conclusion from quack, imo. It's the second thing that came to my mind after the obvious 'oh duh cause he's Russias agent'

Right, but the number of people spreading the same wrong thing in multiple threads hours after they were openly provided direct info as to their error, starts to make it seem like a coordinated disinfo campaign.

Yes, it is possible to be wrong on the internet without a malicious intent. It's also possible to spread disinfo without being a malicious actor, since the whole point of disinfo is to get other people to take it up and spread it, occluding the real issue and disrupting genuine conversation about it.

For clarity, I am not accusing you of being a malicious or disingenuous actor here. No offense, but I doubt you arrived at your position in a vacuum, you probably heard it from somewhere else first I imagine?

You can believe what you like but I’m not here to spread disinformation. Looking at the replies from other people I think I’m just misinformed and need to do more research. It’s possible to be wrong on the internet without it being tied up in a conspiracy.

Agree with what you’re saying here and I think I need to do some more reading. Getting the impression that I’ve been misinformed/mislead.

That is less than sending 19 billion to Israel for free

He tariffed countries with no people and trade deficits of thousands of dollars, and tariffed Ukraine.

There's nothing that explains what orange man is doing better than blackmail.

A large part of their movement is based on aesthetics. And csam is probably a bridge too far for them. It just looks ugly. But I have no doubt many of them don't care about that either.

But from the blackmail angle, the public image of a sick pedo is not compatible with the orange man's public facing persona and his narcissism would make him the perfect blackmail target

i wouldn't say trump wasn't a super gross Epstein buddy, we already know that.

"rigged with secret cameras", so what. where is it now.

edit I know nothing is forthcoming. there's nothing. stop fabricating and focus on what's happening, because it's already terrifying

I doubt it's a blackmail thing, because at this point, not one of Trump's supporters would give a damn if it was clearly proven that Trump personally took CP pictures.

I think Putin just whispers sweet nothings into Trump's ear and controls him that way.

I was skeptical up until the tariffs. Now it's obvious they've got blackmail.

Alao an interview with epstein was leaked last year where he mentioned trump having sex on his plane. But in 2017 that clip was suppressed for some reason.

We know trump flew on that plane many times and that it was rigged with secret cameras

they released the JFK tapes! several times!

honestly i remain skeptical any "kompromat" on trump exists. or any Epstein documents remain that matter. we've all seen it

In terms of nations, I really have no idea what 3.5 billion means. Like is that a lot? I feel like we probably trade that much with China in like what, a week? A month, a day?

The US has 3.5 billion in trade with Russia. The tariffs include Iran; Venezuela, etc... they also slapped them on countries which we have a trade surplus with.

It's also looking like they used chatgpt to write the list but then specifically omitted five countries. Russia, north korea, Cuba, Belarus. Russia and its fine closest allies. How can anyone see this and not think the Kremlin does t own the Epstein tapes

That was also the official argument from Karoline Leavitt, spokesperson of the White House, although last years trading volume between Russia and the US still was about 3.5 billion USD (roughly three times of what Ukraine - US traded).

The question whether tariffs for Russia makes sense or not is rendered meaningless given the fact that the whole tariff plan is just wild (super small countries with a mimiscule part of trading volume still got heavily sanctioned etc).

You are right that we should not spread hysteria, but we should still question statements coming from government officials.

don't read the news because it might get weird for you

How does this point keep coming up? It's been refuted like a dozen times in every post I see. Feels like intentional disinfo at this point.

Yeah, it's hard to put a tariff on a country that you have already sanctioned and don't trade with at all. But that fact doesn't play well here.

Look at section 3(b) of the executive order linked here, at the portion discussing "column 2":

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regulating-imports-with-a-reciprocal-tariff-to-rectify-trade-practices-that-contribute-to-large-and-persistent-annual-united-states-goods-trade-deficits/

Do you have a source for this? I checked https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypxnnyg7jo but cannot find this.

Edit: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/17517599 says that some countries are not included in tariffs because they are sanctioned instead.

I'm sad now.

I miss Gilbert

no US Russia trade

U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

But what’s a few billion between friends?

No US Russia trade YET.

Do people not realize there is no US Russia trade so tariffs would be moot.

"tariffs"

Well, as much as I'd love a dramatic spy backstory, I’m afraid I’m neither an FSB nor an FBI agent. Just a regular person thinking out loud. I don’t have a definitive answer, just some suppositions. I share them so we can all explore the topic with arguments and counterarguments; no secret dossiers required! Open to hearing different perspectives.

I wasn’t claiming this was the only reason, just that it’s one possible factor. Here are some sources that highlight Russia’s role in supplying critical materials like palladium, titanium (via Kazakhstan), and nuclear fuel. While alternative sources exist, replacing Russian supplies isn’t immediate or simple.

>Import Sources (2019–22): Palladium: Russia, 32%; South Africa, 31%; Italy, 8%; Canada, 7%; and other, 22%.

Source: https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2024/mcs2024-platinum-group.pdf

>Palladium is critical to the U.S. economy and national security. Russia is the largest supplier of the metal to the United States.

Source: https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/executive_briefings/ebot_russia_palladium_and_semiconductors.pdf

Apparently there was no titanium sponge import directly from Russia since 2022 sanctions. However 9% of imports come from Kazakhstan (VSMPO-AVISMA subsidiaries)

Source: https://pubs.usgs.gov/periodicals/mcs2024/mcs2024-titanium.pdf

US scrambles to break reliance on Russian nuclear fuel

Russia had a monopoly on HALEU until recently. Despite U.S. effort to remedy tis issue for them their nuclear industry still faces challenges in meeting its HALEU needs domestically.

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/7ead1252-70a5-4258-8d0c-b01a65bd61f1

We are so passed that. I dont think it would matter to MAGA america.

The real key resource that Russia holds has to be a video of Trump on Epsteins Island.

the same is true for other countries on this list. nearly all of them for example

now explain why Russia is uniquely in this position or i user note you as a russian agent

It’s almost like they couldn’t get this from Canada anymore…for some reason…

I find it funny than instead of at least imposing 10% tariff by default on Russia and selectively exempt critical resources. Russian wasn't listed at all.

Even an unoccupied island got 10% tariff by default.

One wouldn't, which makes all the Krasnov comments in this situation entertaining.

I wondered the same thing. Why would you add tariffs if it's illegal to even trade with them?

Here's a treat, don't consume them all at once: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5961853/Trump-ruthlessly-mocked-social-media-disgraceful-performance-Putin.html

That picture is one of the funniest I’ve ever seen. Absolutely a classic.

...pointed out that it would take many years of consistent tariffs to generate that kind of interest and investment...

That's the scary thing. Citrus-Hitler assumes he's gonna have himself and his policies in place for "many years of consistent tariffs."

And that's how you end up in Guantanamo.

Trump seems to think the trade deficit is some sort of debt that we'll have to pay off in the future.

The overall goal of bringing manufacturing back to the US isn't necessarily a bad one, but this is probably the worst way to go about doing it. One article I read pointed out that it would take many years of consistent tariffs to generate that kind of interest and investment - but anyone with half a brain knows these tariffs could be gone tomorrow, so there's little inclination to actually try to build factories in the US based on this move. No reasonable investor would want to bet their company on Trump acting consistently.

Downvoted because it’s wrong : *We aren’t tariffing them because we aren’t trading with them.*

So are some inhabited islands which are hit by tariffs. Maybe the dogshit stupid is the one not seeing the ties between trump and putin.

Damn you sound very smart, please tell me more

Systems that have voting mechanisms result in hive minds. It's an inevitable result.

1st someone is much more likely to vote something up or down depending on how positive / negative it is. So it snowballs sort of like compounding interest

2nd the simplest most common denominator takes bubble to the top. Precisely because more people can understand and therefore vote.

It's why you'll always see some screenshot of Twitter much higher than a long in depth article. Even though the article has infinitely more value.


They are eating the dogs and now they are tariffing the penguins.

Man the Sentinelese are gonna be ***pissed*** when they learn about this.

I know. It’s insane.

Now that is a lie. He only likes himself and Ivanka.

Some people are saying that this is cause Trump likes us.

He slapped a 50% tarrif on Lesotho, so it's clearly not about size or impact.

And the UK got a 10% tariff applied even though the US doesn't have a goods trade deficit with them.

I was under the impression that we (in Canada) get our vodka mostly from Finland, but it's been a while since I worked as an alcohol purveyor... I'm ashamed of the things I did during those years, but I'm in recovery now, thank you for your concern

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1306859/us-imports-by-commodity-from-russia/

It does look like we import about $3B/year. Mostly fertilizers, which make up 1/3 of total imports, and some raw metals and a bit of heavy machinery. But that's minuscule beside our trade balances with the top of his tariff list - China, the EU, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, and India. We do $20B/year with tiny little South Korea, as a point of comparison. We bring in $6B/year from South Africa.

To my knowledge, we don't import Russian vodka in any significant quantity. Anything "Russian" branded is typically imported from one of the neighboring states - Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Romania. Red Army Vodka, for instance, is from a Polish company.

idaho i think

Maybe, but apparently we're tariffing multiple uninhabited islands. It would seem that active trade is not a perquisite for tariffs these days. can't be having people move out there and not getting tariffed in the future.

I hope he puts tariffs on Mars next. Maybe after he falls out with musk.

But tarrif on seals in the Antarctica region?

Doesn't seem like logic is driving any of this.

Surely American trades *some* products? Where does Russian vodka come from?

But McDonald island is ripping the USA off!!!!

it's funny that this is being downvoted. lemmy is basically reddit. rooting for the good guys, but also dogshit stupid

The US has been sanctioning Russia for the better part of the last decade. We aren't tariffing them because we aren't trading with them.

We also aren't tariffing Venezuela, Cuba, or North Korea, for the same reasons.

The only possibility of me agreeing with this old fuck is him stepping down as President... But then we would have to deal with a Vance Presidency and I'm not sure that would be better

yeah. rip abdulrahman alawaki though

Yes but look at the people who becomes US presidents. The bar needs to be low or none of them can reach it.

As much as I despise Obama for vastly expanding our extrajudicial drone strike policy..... All things put into perspective, yeah he was pretty decent.

I was fine with like 80% of Obama and like 60% of Clinton's actual policies while enjoying the economy that I don't credit him for. But then W Bush was like a 10% and Trump 1 maybe 15% (Warp Speed, passing the vast majority of Covid stimulus, ironically all the stuff he's against now) and I'm batting zero so far on Trump 2 but I assume at some point he'll do something I agree with.

Obama was pretty decent no?

How Obama Destroyed Black Wealth

Neil Barofsky, the bailout inspector general, later testified that protecting the banks was the actual goal. The administration’s aim was to “foam the runway” for the banks, as Barofsky witnessed Tim Geithner tell Elizabeth Warren. HAMP failed, in other words, because it was not designed to help homeowners.

As a result, in many cases HAMP actively enabled foreclosure. Its re-default rate — the fraction of people who got a modification and later defaulted out of the program — was 22 percent as of 2013. Only about $15 billion of the original $75 billion appropriation was spent by mid-2016.

Out of an initial promised 4 million mortgage modifications — itself a drastic underestimate — by the end of 2016 only 2.7 million had even been started. Out of that number, only 1.7 million made it to permanent modification, and of those, 558,000 eventually washed out of the program.

...

Former Wells Fargo employees later testified that the bank deliberately tricked middle-class black families (who they called “mud people”) into subprime “ghetto loans.” Overall, a Center for Responsible Lending study found that from 2004 to 2008, 6.2 percent of white borrowers with a credit score of 660 and up got subprime mortgages, while 19.3 percent of such Latino borrowers and 21.4 percent of black borrowers did.

The effects of the foreclosure disaster are starkly apparent in Survey of Consumer Finances data. To start, the homeownership national rate shows a marked decline over almost the whole Obama presidency, reaching the lowest rate since 1965 (before slightly rebounding).

That’s an absurdly low bar.

Obama was pretty decent no? He managed to at least speak normally.

*3.8

I really want to say Bush’s useless Trillion dollar wars are worse than this.

I would say Bush's bailout of the O&G sector in '01 and the Financial Sector in '08 laid the seeds for worse social and ecological conditions over the subsequent two decades. Similarly, NAFTA and the subsequent midwestern de-industrialization was nightmarish for US industry and Mexican agriculture.

These blunders set us up to need international trade. What's crazy about Trump's tariffs is that he's not addressing the underlying infrastructure problems or the crushing post-Great Recession debt traps. He's just squeezing at the point of the supply chain in order to punish American industry and labor for adapting to the sabotaged economic landscape of the neoliberal era.

It is the economic equivalent of kicking a guy in the kidneys after he's already been laid out on the ground.

Your great argument has changed my mind. I now see that I was wrong. Thank you.

Yes exactly. Yet the islands were included but Russia wasn't. So the situation isn't that Russia has no trade and tariffs are useless against it, but that Russia was specifically singled out so they wouldn't receive tariffs.

Just take the loss, jfc.

You missed my point. Islands are irrelevant. Russia isn't.

Lmao, what? Why even?

Because Trump is a moron surrounded by a team of idiots.

Well, even then, these islands are not significant geopolitical actors.

And yet they have tarrifs.

>And tarrifs will certinly not hurt the Russian economy, and I doubt they are going to help the US in terms of geopolitics.

The same can be said if many of the other tariffs Trump has imposed. Which is why Russia's exception is notable.

Lmao, what? Why even?

Well, even then, these islands are not significant geopolitical actors. And tarrifs will certinly not hurt the Russian economy, and I doubt they are going to help the US in terms of geopolitics.

There are tariffs on uninhabited islands. Russia being an exception is notable.

Trump followed a consistent, rigid math: Whatever the trade deficit, then that's the tariff applied... except for Russia. Russia is #23 on our list of trade partners. Following the math they should have a hefty tariff applied, but they don't. It's the only exception.

>Tarrifs on Russia will be pointless

Nope!

Most electronics are imported from China, not from US. No one will be sending iPhones from China to US and then to the rest of the world.

That’s what I was thinking. Plenty of reason for outrage. This will just be a distraction.

Russia exports next to nothing to the US, but it does import things like electronics for obvious reasons.

Tarrifs on Russia will be pointless, really. Russia has been trading with Europe for the most part for obvious reasons until it fell out of favour. So this seems like manufactured outrage.

Uh.. which one? There's so many I've lost track. I only seem to remember dog killer, handyqueen and simian goblin.

KKKaroline

Or never knew them to begin with

Well. The bridge took some damage in the previous Trump admin as well.

I think far too many people forgot those times.

As well as it should not trust the U.S. the same again. While i absolutely despise the orange turd he has shown what has been true before: The west has been too reliant on the U.S. ,which both sides enjoyed while it lastet, as the U.S. called the shots, the rest of the west followed and we all benefitted (often on the backs of the global south ofc).

No more. Maybe some good will come out of it (strong hopium, i know)

Sure thing, let's just go to the unredacted Mueller Rep- AW GODDAMMIT

If anybody is paralyzed it might be Sk and Japan but SK is already jumping ship and trading with China, now.

Looks more like Russia and USA are in the same trade embargo, while the rest of the world is free to do whatever they want.

You're comparing 2021 exports with 2024 imports

So is that trading economics website just BS, then?

The US consistently runs a trade deficit with Russia.

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4621.html

The US has a trade surplus with the UK, but still applied a 10% tariff to them.

https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/imports/united-states

Russia imports $17 billions from USA. So we don’t have a trade deficit with Russia.

He’s definitely a Russian troll, but I’m not sure this is the data point to prove it.

United States Imports from Russia was US$3.27 Billion during 2024

Sounds like no government actually gives a fuck about stopping the ukraine war. Sending weapons to ukraine government is a more profitable business than cutting import and export to russia to 0.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

>U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

Yeah if I were being charitable I might imagine they aren't on the list because they are already subject to extremely high tarrifs and embargoes. Maybe increased those tarrifs could be a bargaining chip in ending the Ukraine invasion. Impossible to tell with Trump though.

social media manipulation

Biggest social media are all owned by private american corporations in bed with the government. Same as before to me it doesn't sound much likely that the russian government can successfully manipulate them.

There’s no reason to believe the USA being rich (which only means a few individuals and corporations are very rich, btw) or having the largest army could have prevented it.

Having the largest army doesn't mean they have more guys running around in a field. USA has the most technological advanced army in the world, they have the biggest mass surveillance network, more military facilities around the world, more satellites in orbit and they top everyone else in cyberwarfare.

I'm not sure what the things you say have to do with anything? Trump is an individual who got voted into the presidency largely thanks to social media manipulation, which is known to often originate from Russian bot and troll farms. There's no reason to believe the USA being rich (which only means a few individuals and corporations are very rich, btw) or having the largest army could have prevented it.

They forged it.

If she has a US birth certificate she would be a citizen I believe. If not any attempt to run for office would be questioned.

The longest.

Only the long form one will do

...every accusation is an admission...

Let's see the birth certificate.

I’m honestly not sure how that would apply to infant adoptions. It’s my understanding that if the adoption occurs early enough, the adoptive parents will be listed on the birth certificate. It certainly feels like a child adopted in infancy by citizens should be just as eligible for the presidency as a child naturally born to citizens, but I’d also have a hard time drawing a line age-wise after which that would no longer apply and I do see a reason to bar children adopted at 17 from the presidency. My niece was adopted at three years old and she does remember her biological mother, but she’s absolutely my sister and brother in law’s daughter, in terms of her personality, culture, and values. That’s only a data point of one and I’d like more, but I don’t know how easy that would be to track for other adopted children.

Well, he could just show his birth certificate, right?

I don't think it landed well but I think he's Rubber/Glue-ing the Obama birth certificate thing back to him.

Uh, what?

His Parents were Soviet assets and he was adopted from Russia, so it checks out.

And Putin isn't a U.S. asset? While both countries are geopolitical adversaries, their military and strategic moves have ironically helped sustain each other's defense industries; just not in a cooperative way.

Embracing the Ultra-Nationalist Paleocon wing of the Republican Party and stuffing your administration with goldbugs and Silicon Valley anarcho-capitalists?

Why does an American President consuming American Propaganda and regurgitating a uniquely American public policy at the behest of his wealthiest American peers and hooting white-nationalist proles waving American flags get flagged as Russian?

US is the richest country in the world and the one with the largest and most advanced army. To me it sound quite unlikely to believe that the president of USA is controlled by russia (a country that is 10 times less rich).

Again, Trump put tariffs on **uninhabited Islands**.

If you are a country with a GDP that is 1000 or 10000 times higher it will not be a problem.

3 billion is nothing.

Cool, can I borrow $3 billion?

Trump put tariffs on uninhibited islands, which is literally $0 in trade.

Russia never traded much with US. So it's business as usual.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

>U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

So the source is your reddit comment linking to a statement from a "Whitehouse official". I do not trust anyone representing Donald trump.

Edit:I don't know why it looked like reddit to me

3 billion is nothing.

I wonder how much the EU imports.

True, but given that Trump has put tariffs on uninhabited islands in the Arctic (I believe), it's still an interesting point to make.

Edit: spelling.

Yes they are. It is common knowledge. That is why people are still pushing for more sanctions and trade restrictions.

**United States Imports from Russia was US$3.27 Billion during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. 

**

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/russia

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

>U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump-tariffs-antarctica-uninhabited-heard-mcdonald-islands

Trump is definitely a Russian asset.

Un-fucking-real.

This presidency will be such a shit stain on the world. The world will never trust the U.S. in the same way it did before.

Over a century of trust and partnerships destroyed in less than 100 days.

I wonder why...

!Putin puppet

Uh? Of course he isn't. Why would Putin tell him to put tariffs on himself? That makes no sense.

You can view this one of two ways, possibly both:

1. Krasnov

2. Trump apparently was doing these tariffs based on trade deficits (Which is stupid on its own, if your dentist doesn't buy the widgets you sell, that's not a tariff.), if Russia wasn't running one, then there you go.

To rebuke 2 I present the following- https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

>U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled **$3.0 billion** in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was **$2.5 billion** in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

Based on that math, with the CNN article I linked for the formula (the country’s trade deficit divided by its exports to the United States times 1/2) we get - (2,500,000,000 / 3,000,000,000) * 1/2 = 0.416666...

So Russia *should* have a 42% tariff based on their purported 83% tariff on us.

Good point, considering the US still trades with Russia.

**United States Imports from Russia was US$3.27 Billion during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. **

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/russia

Well, uh, who do you think is calling the shots?

For context, Cuba, North Korea, and Belarus are also not tariffed because they are sanctioned instead.

I try to keep a sense of perspective, every president I disagree with seems to be the worst president ever at the time.

I *really* want to say Bush's useless Trillion dollar wars are worse than this.

But it's close and we have 3.5 more years of this.


Could someone ask Propaganda Barbie about this?

So US imposed tariff on penguins, but 0 on Russia!

>Almost the entire world is paralyzed by American tariffs

😂

Well, why should Agent Krasnov put tariffs on the hand that feeds him, good old Vlad? 🤷🏼‍♂️

I was noticing this as well. The place that should have the highest tarrifs.

Guys I think there's some evidence that this is, shall we say, Russia friendly (such as the astronomical tariff rate on Moldova of all places), but Russia isn't included because it's a "Column 2" country alongside Belarus, Cuba, and North Korea, and therefore all subject to the stiff tariffs we already impose on the worst of the worst. Please let's not share things like this which just make us look gullable to the morons on the right supporting this buffoon. It's not a good look.

Should tell you everything you need to know.

That tracks. Prove to me he’s not a Russian asset.

Kompromat

That'll show em! Trump was ANGRY at Russia these few days!

Krasnov strikes again! Until there is evidence to counter this theory, it satisfies Occam's Razor.

What’s the trade difference? Aren’t we not allowed to trade with them at all?

from here https://t.me/s/artjockey_lite

Dmitriev gave a statement following his meetings in the US. Let me remind you that this was actually the first visit of this level since the beginning of the war, and sanctions were temporarily lifted for it.

As a result:

The timing of a new round of negotiations between the US and Russia will be determined in the near future;

The resumption of direct air travel is under discussion;

US businesses are ready to take the place of companies that left from the EU [they know how to appeal to Trump];

Overall, the US is taking a constructive stance and behaving respectfully.

Judging by the statements, the talks were successful, but in practice — the truth is in the outcome. We'll see whether there are any developments soon regarding the implementation of Russia's conditions for a "maritime truce" or, on the contrary, whether Russia will make concessions and agree to it without sanctions being lifted.

Also, a reminder that in a few days, a Ukrainian delegation is set to hold negotiations in the US regarding a resource deal that Trump has already openly referred to as part of a peace agreement.

All in all, it looks like another round of diplomacy may take place next week. A maritime truce and a signed deal by Ukraine could be on the horizon. If that happens — or even if specific dates are set — the chances of a full ceasefire by the end of the month will significantly increase.

It's more obvious than a sunrise that Trump doesn't work for America.

I wonder why

That finnish president sure talked some sense into him.

This would be terminally shameful to anybody who wasn't completely immune to shame.

Russia remains a key supplier of resources critical to U.S. industry (titanium, palladium, uranium). While technically replaceable, developing alternative sources would take years. This makes the current moment less than ideal for imposing higher tariffs on Russia, particularly when the priority is to reindustrialize the U.S.

Fairly sure that’s because Russia is heavily sanctioned by thr US already, alongside North Korea, Cuba, Iran etc.

Things are bad but let’s not spread hysteria.

Is ... Is the US trading with Russia?

Edit: pretty much no. Dumb rage bait article

Double edit: fuck you, lemmy