Russia’s deadline is Trump goes with tariffs on the card

US President Donald Trump’s deadline to end the war in Ukraine will end on Friday, when the markets are watching whether the White House will continue with steep fines on Moscow’s oil clients.

Trump is increasingly disappointed with the Kremlin, “”secondary tariffs“With” about 100%”on Russian trading partners, if Moscow does not finish its invasion in Ukraine, installing the original 50-day temporary scale that was later abbreviated.

Trump forced the war in Ukraine a key task of foreign policy of his second presidential mandate, canceling the course on the initial thawing relations with the White House with Moscow to now gain pressure on the Kremlin for diplomatic progress.

At the heart of Russia and Ukraine’s inability to date, there were differences on Putin’s maximum demands so that the war can end only if Kiev refuses to join the NATO military alliance and retain four Ukrainian regions given during the last conflict. Russia is also looking for a final conclusion to the war and previously called for New elections In Ukraine.

Earlier in the week, US Special Envoy Steve Witcoof went to the eleventh hour with Putin, which Trump was perceived as “high -performance”.

“Everyone agrees that this war should approach and we will work on it in the following days and weeks,” ” he said Wednesday.

Trump’s optimism seemed to decline by Thursday, despite the opinion that the US president could meet his Russian counterpart in the coming days.

Asked if he stood on Friday’s term of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump said: “We will see what he has to say. It will depend on him. Very disappointed.”

Russia’s threat is a potential abolition of its miserable customer base for raw and oil products that are no longer allowed to accept marine base countries. According to the G7 scheme, countries outside the coalition retain critical access to the Western delivery and insurance mechanisms as long as they only buy Russian supplies.

The Russian sanctions economy depends heavily on its raw sales, against the background of increasing the isolation at the international stage and the reduction of growth that is expected this year, from 4.3% in 2024, from 2024. According to the World Bank forecasts.

When it pushes forward, the introduction of the so -called secondary tariffs and more and more hot rhetoric, in turn, buyers of Moscow’s Standa with a choice between the duration of cheap oil purchases or interaction with the US on favorable trade conditions. The first use of US secondary tariffs should appear on August 27 as an additional 25% for frequent Russian oil consumers in India.

“It is very important that Trump has decided, however, undergoes heat on his friend Narendra Modi, not on Putin himself,” said Fordham Global Foresight on Friday.

“It tells us that President Trump is very reluctant to press directly on Putin. And he is so much that he threatens this relationship with India, which is an extremely important ally in the broad context of US and China relations.”