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.

  • KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee
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    I’m surprised it took this long. He’s already selling U.S. citizenship to Russian mobsters, so why not let them run wild and finish what you started - destroying America.

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    Reward your friends, punish your enemies. Trump showing that he views Russia as an ally, and Canada as a threat.

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    11 minutes ago

    You Americans need to prove that 2A is useful and shoot this treasonous cunt.

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    7 hours ago

    Yeah I figured this would happen. And when the cost of gas goes up because of his Tarrifs we’ll be buying oil from Russia again…

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    If the US does lift sanctions on select oligarchs from Russia, I think the EU should consider sanctions on select oligarchs from the US.

    I can suggest one such oligarch, Elon Musk - he’s associated with wielding illegitimate power, manipulating social media and interfering in elections (both national and primary) using wealth.

    How about freezing his assets? I don’t think he has taken the prudent step of collecting all his money and stowing it under Donald’s presidential seat.

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    And another piece of evidence that Trump is nothing but a Russian agent in the Oval Office. When will the US media finally start to ask about this?

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        kindly, Fuck off.

        A couple of suspicious sounding phone calls intercepted from an embassy, when every embassy in the country was having their own discussions about their preferred outcome to the collapse of a government, do not influence millions of Ukrainians who know their own country and government, to take to the streets in a riot over being betrayed over something they voted for.

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      12 hours ago

      Nothing. 50% of the country loves their strongman president more than freedom or common sense

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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        And the other 50% thinks that the best avenue for social change is to attack people who don’t like the latest Disney movie.

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          You’re framing that as a difference in taste when in reality it was a difference in having shitty bigoted views or not. Haven’t you fuckers muddied the water enough?

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    somebody tell me when did America and Russia become allies? i think i missed that part of history class

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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.

    • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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      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.

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      I would like to see mass sanctions on the US. Isolate the crap out of them.

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      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.

      • Lit@lemmy.world
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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 from the UN.

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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.

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    16 hours ago

    And red voters will still find ways to deny that he’s Putin’s little bitch boy

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      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.

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