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The crack between Moscow and Washington will deepen after US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the Russia's economy “stinks” and that lower oil prices will hammer oil-placed war-placed war machines.
“Putin will stop killing people if they get energy more $ 10 per barrel. He will have no choice because his economy stinks,” the president told CNBCs “Squawk Box”. on Tuesday.
The comments come according to the relationships between Moscow and Washington, who, despite the continuing war at the beginning of Trump's second term, were warm in the past few weeks despite the continuing war.
Trump seemed to lose patience with Putin, since Russia's obvious reluctance to pursue a ceasefire or a peace agreement with Ukraine. Last Monday, the President said that he reduced from 50 days to less than two weeks when Putin had a peace agreement with Ukraine completed or large “secondary tariffs” for Moscow trading partners.
This prompted the former Russian president and high -ranking Russian official Dmitry Medvedev to react on social media that every new ultimatum that Trump over Russia is to end the war against Ukraine “A threat and a step towards war.”
“Not between Russia and Ukraine, but with his own country,” Medledew wrote to X. Trump said on Friday that he ordered two atom -u boats to be positioned in the corresponding regions “, in response to Medwedev's comments.
Russia, one of the world's leading oil exporters, has used revenue from oil exports to largely finance his war machine in Ukraine, which has entered in 2022. The western partners of Ukraine have used sanctions and restrictions to suppress these income, but countries such as India and China have bought reduced Russian crude.
Trump has made this angry and he has threatened India with steep tariffs in the past few days if it doesn't stop buying Russian oil. The President threatened an obligation of 25% to Indian exports and an “punishment” that has not been described in more detail last week and accused Neu -Delhi of bought reduced Russian oil and “selling it on the free market for large profits”.
On Tuesday, Trump said CNBC that the tariff threshold could have hiked over 25% over the next 24 hours.
“India was not a good trading partner … So we decided to 25%, but I think I will increase it very significantly in the next 24 hours because they buy Russian oil, do the war machine, and if they do it, I won't be happy,” said Trump.
Russia on Tuesday was in the spit on Tuesday, and the Kremlin said that India was free to choose his own trading partners, and that Trump's tariff threats are “attempts to force the countries to stop trade relationships with Russia”.
“We do not consider such statements to be legitimate,” kreml press spokesman Dmitry Peskov continued and spoke to reporters on Tuesday.
“We believe that sovereign countries should have the right and have the right to choose their own trading partners, partners in retail and economic cooperation and to choose these commercial and economic cooperation regimes that are in the interest of a specific country.”
Oil prices went back to around $ 65 per barrel brand on Tuesday when the dealers examined the announcement by Opec and its oil production flies on Sunday that they would increase production due to potential weaker worldwide demand.
After Trump's comments on Tuesday, the raw futures from Brent went by 83 cents or 1.2%to $ 67.92 per barrel, while the US intermediate raw oil in the USA slipped by $ 65.41.
In the meantime, dark clouds seem to gather on the horizon when it comes to the war -oriented economy in Russia. It worked under the weight of international sanctions and the locals, which also results from the war, such as: The Russian Ministry of Economic Affairs also predicts that economic growth will slow down from 4.3% in 2024 to 2.5% this year.
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