Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Trump walks around malevolently ignorant of the most elementary facts of political and economic life. For example, when President Trump recently tried to bully Vladimir Putin (via social media, of course) into accepting a Ukraine ‘peace deal’ (which is not a peace deal at all but another one of those ‘We have a … concept of a plan’ Trump things), Putin did not budge. (The czar is not for budging.) And so Trump broke out his big gun, practically the only weapon in his arsenal: He threatened to impose heavy tariffs on Russian exports to the United States. Putin seemed nonplussed. So did a lot of other people. … Inconveniently for the tariff-loving Trump, Russia exports almost nothing to the United States, which as of 2022 accounted for about 3 percent of Russian trade.” (01/29/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/putin-trump-ukraine-war-tariffs/