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If we’ve learnt anything in the last 6 months half of Americans are bat shit crazy.

kruzinpast

How many ways can America isolate itself by trying to spend political capital it is bankrupt in?

Vastet

"Around 50% of Americans support sanctions against countries that purchase Russian oil and gas, according to the results of a YouGov poll published on June 27.


A bipartisan sanctions bill in the U.S. Senate aims to slap 500% tariffs on imports from countries that continue to purchase Russian energy products. U.S. President Donald Trump has not backed the measure and a vote on the bill has reportedly been postponed.


In a YouGov survey of adult U.S. citizens conducted June 12-16, 24% said they "strongly support" sanctioning Russian energy buyers while 25% said they "somewhat support" secondary sanctions against these countries.


Like the Senate bill, support for secondary sanctions among respondents was bipartisan. Of "strong supporters," 26% indentified as Democrats while 27% were Republicans."

BolvangarBear

But Donald doesn’t, so your opinions don’t matter.

slavid180501

Gamera971

sonictrash

I'm genuinely curious who these people are polling.

Financial-Special766

So sanctioning India and China and the EU (Hungary still buys Russian oil and gas) is next on America's bucket list?

America is speed-running itself into being the next North Korea, complete with it's Juche ideology.

Happy_Feet333

The other half of Americans have been compromised by Russian propaganda or bribery.

Cognitive_Offload

Want to help get this passed? Call your Representative.

The American Coalition for Ukraine has [created a simple tool](https://ujoin.co/campaigns/3788/actions/public?action_id=5398) which you can use to quickly contact your House member about the Sanctioning Russia Act.

In the Senate there are already 80 cosponsors, making it veto-proof regardless of Trump's support.

abitStoic

That is mainly China and India. Looking forward to seeing how this works out

Such-fun4328

Yes, please. More of this. And release restrictions on targets.

zoodee89

Going to require a veto-proof bill (2/3rds majority) otherwise an instant veto by the Orange Manchurian. See the time when there was a veto-proof Russian sanctions bill that passed during his first administration and he still violated the Constitution by waiting past the deadline to sign it. Now it's clear he doesn't even care about that. Trump can ***not*** move against Putin in a meaningful way. It violates the fundamental oath he took, which was not to the Constitution.

WafflePartyOrgy

I find it funny that all it took for Trump to change course on Russia was for Putin to insult him. 

We wouldn't see this bill today if Putin didn't respond back to Trumps latest tangent.

TechHeteroBear

gesocks

I support this but also support providing more weapons to Ukraine to defend itself

TLCM-4412

dav956able

Never going to happen if orange turd does not give his blessing. And he will not, he is afraid of Putin.

differentshade

In the late 1980's when Trump went to Russia to secure 16 different bank loans from their banks.

Death_passed

niknik888

"If approved" 
As an American, I have doubts with all the ruzzin propaganda that the politicians have been spewing since January.

No-Manner-3514

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Great that we're going to tariff countries buying oil from russia, but why aren't we tariffing them ourselves? We currently trade with russia at a deficit.

OMGitisCrabMan

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Prediction if this makes it to trumps desk: a big beautiful veto

sovtwit

500% Tarrifs is not realistic. They will smuggle products via middlemen from other countries at a fraction of that tarrif. Hope it passes though. Jumping through hoops for a bit of oil will be fun to watch

Archsquire2020

Did Donny get called a little bitch by Putin on a phone call? Because he completely did a 180 on his views.

photosofmycatmandog

The biggest problem with this bill as I understand it is that it would slap 500% tariffs on everyone buying Russian gas &amp; oil—US allies included. It would also be subject to renewal or rejection every 90 days at Trump’s whim. 

It would throw international trade into a state of complete chaos but I’m not sure how much it will actually accomplish. With the specter of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” (God I want to puke) looming over us I feel like this 1-2 punch might do more harm to the US &amp; Europe than Russia. 

Hopefully there’s something I’m missing here.

GrahamCStrouse

dunncrew

They'll never get it passed. It's performative.

TopLingonberry4346

That's nice but will likely not make it out of committee.

Phobos1982

Which Bill? The one that will never be passed??

Open_Adventurer

means nothing if traitor trump doesn’t sign it

mobtowndave

This is more moronic tariff bullshit that will be harmful to the United States.  Don't add tariffs on things because dipshit likes that word, he doesn't understand anything, and thinks he's a tough guy imposing them on a whim.

Support Ukraine but do it in a smart way that will actually achieve the results you want.  If you need to dress it up so dipshit will sign/support it give it some bullshit name that he thinks is flattering to him somehow.  He can pretend to be the tough guy he's not by taking credit for the work of smarter people in taking down Russia.

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US President Donald Trump has revoked a range of sanctions on Syria, including sanctions on US imports of Syrian oil, effective July 1, 2025, according to an executive order issued June 30.

Among other measures, the order terminates an executive order issued by the Obama administration in August 2011 that blocked US imports of Syrian petroleum and petroleum products.

"The United States is committed to supporting a Syria that is stable, unified and at peace with itself and its neighbors," the executive order said.

CommodityInsights

Deeply funny that the Saudis won on Syria more than Israel did and so Trump is now more aggressively removing sanctions despite issues like violence against minorities and longterm stability fears faster than a democratic president likely would have done.

spinosaurs70

Why are we importing oil from Syria. I thought it was "drills baby, drill" in the US. Remember, energy independence?

"These are people of the land, clay of the new west, you know. Trump Voters"

Future-Helicopter-95

This seems more like undoing whatever Dems did. The announcement also claims Syria is "at peace with itself and its neighbors". The administration still shows [this statement](https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/syria-travel-advisory.html) on the government travel advisory site, last updated March 3, 2025:

&gt;***Updated to reflect the risk of unjust detention and updates to the Syrian conflict.***

&gt;Do not travel to Syria due to the risk of **terrorism**, **civil unrest, kidnapping, hostage taking, armed conflict, and unjust detention.**  

the_red_scimitar

So this can go 2 ways, either China stops buying from Ruzzia or goes full bezorg and helps russia...

Mapey

Actually some good news. This will starve Russia's war machine more or less and force their hand. 


I imagine the EU didn't do this yet cuz this is technically an escalation, but, Russia showed that they don't care about law and order for way too long

BlackwingF91

This headline is massively misleading.

* The EU is in the process of renewing its sanctions package against Russia. It must be renewed every six months to remain in effect. This would be the 17th round. The sanctions require unanimous approval from all 27 member nations.

* Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) has proposed a sanction package on Russia, along with 60+ co-sponsors. However, while Graham claims to have broad support in the Senate, it is not at all clear that he has support from the President or the House of Representatives. Currently, the legislation is only in draft form, so it is not even a bill yet.

* French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has spoken with Sen. Lindsay Graham and expressed a wish to coordinate sanctions: "We Europeans will accompany this American initiative with a 17th package of sanctions and I committed yesterday to Lindsey Graham that we would try to coordinate both the substance and the timing of these two packages of sanctions."

As of now, the EU sanctions have not yet been renewed, the U.S. sanctions is only a draft Senate bill with uncertain support, and the "joint development" claim is based on the view of French Foreign Minister Barrot.

Sources:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-01/graham-says-he-has-broad-senate-support-for-new-russia-sanctions?embedded-checkout=true

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/lindsey-graham-russia-sanctions-tariffs-bill-2b3922ee

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250502-european-union-prepares-new-sanctions-on-russia-over-ukraine-war-jean-noel-barrot

**tl;dr: There is no official sanctions proposal from the U.S. and there is no joint effort between the EU and the U.S. to impose sanctions on Russia.**

FblthpLives

This is not official US policy. This is a senate initiative:

&gt;“We Europeans will accompany this American initiative with a 17th package of sanctions and I committed yesterday to Lindsey Graham that we would try to coordinate both the substance and the timing of these two packages of sanctions,” Barrot said. 

&gt;Graham, a close Senate ally of US President Donald Trump, told reporters on Wednesday that he has the support of 72 colleagues to pass a “bone-crushing” sanctions package on Russia, including tariffs on third countries purchasing its oil, gas and other key commodities. 

He might have 72 senators behind this now, but how many will still support it if Trump orders them not to?

kaspar42

Considering Russia is already balancing precariously I expect this would end the war in about 2 months

YsoL8

I'm not getting my hopes up.  This just feels like posturing to try to scare putin to the table.  Putin will say something about negotiating and the US will back out of the plan.

AdhesivenessFun2060

As strong of an intrument that would be, I can't see Orban and Fico agreeing to this, considering both of them along with a couple of other European nations still purchase oil and LNG from Russia.

Karash770

araujoms

Wait.. but we still buy russian oi/ gas in the EU .. are we tariffing ourselves?

Neony_Dota

How is this part going to play out?

&gt;the proposed penalties would include a 500% tariff on imports from countries that purchase Russian oil, petroleum products, natural gas, or uranium

Does that literally mean that the U.S. will impose 500% tariffs on all imports from European countries that import gas from Russia?

anders_hansson

Doesn’t Europe currently buy a lot of Russian oil? Also redirected with trans shipment Russian oil via India and places?

antilittlepink

If I had a penny every time I heard about bone crushing, jaw dropping, mind blowing sanctions I could buy an egg in USA by now.

gamnoed556

So EU countries will stop buying Russian gas/oil right?


Right?

DearBenito

Meanwhile, 50% of exported Russian LNG was sold to the EU, making the EU the fourth largest importer of Russian fossil fuels. These numbers are from [March this year. ](https://energyandcleanair.org/march-2025-monthly-analysis-of-russian-fossil-fuel-exports-and-sanctions/)

Are we gonna start sanctioning this import as well, or is the EU gonna keep financing Putlers bloodshed in Ukraine?

Hypocrisy...

AssaultUnicorn

pantrokator-bezsens

What makes this more "bone-crushing" as opposed to the previous sanctions?

Mrstrawberry209

Wickedlwitch

Are they going to do that to Hungary, as well? Hungary gets both nuclear and fossil fuel from Russia. 

The sanctions will never get through because of Hungary, Orban will just veto them.

Icy-Tour8480

I think the west can misunderstand Russia in this case. They think that Russia wants to be an European state so they can turn it over against china if they feel too much threat of becoming china's colony and never becoming a European state. In fact the Russian government wants absolute power over their people, nuclear weapons to blackmail small countries and "infinite" money for their oligarchy. So as long as china won't pose a threat to these government priorities Russia doesn't care about becoming their colony and any sanctions won't work. It won't hurt to impose them though so killing innocent people won't come for them as easily as it could be.

PanMlody

India and China feeling the heat if true.

Bitedamnn

I hope EU really stops purchasing all kind of oil and gas from Russia. But to be really efficient, secondary tariffs should be out in place to avoir importing products produced from russian raw material produced elsewhere.

schnecke12

Markovelli_

Pretty major if it happens. It would be a huge risk to both India and China to potentially cut access to both European and US markets by buying Russian oil.

yubnubster

After the war ends, Putin and his enablers must answer for what they've done. A 21st century nuremberg trials.

How about ZERO trade with Russia in any capacity?

MrVaporDK

SugarInvestigator

Who would have thought you could get Trump to sanction Russia if you just made it about tariffs?

-The_Blazer-

How would this even work. India loves cheap Russian oil and US just cut a deal with India.

darisma

Poor choice of words. Bone crushers were literally Nazi machines grinding victims to hide the crimes. A surviving example is at the Rodina Mat WW2 Museum in Kiev. 

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/photo/bone-crushing-machine-in-janowska

CrimsonTightwad

So what took them so long to do this? They could have done it a year ago and it would’ve had a much bigger impact.

djazzie

First useful example for a tariff, unfortunately that's why it probably won't happen

Methwurstmann

I’ll never forgive Trump for cutting off intelligence to Ukraine and trying to force them into a bogus peace deal. Ukrainian lives were lost over that. 

Maybe I’m wrong but I think Trump has an admiration for dictators like Putin, (obvious I know) and was willing to take their side because of that. He could even be an asset. Ultimately, I don’t think he cared about the outcome of the war, he wanted a quick win and genuinely thought Ukraine had no chance to continue resisting. 

Though now that’s it’s clear Trump can’t get a “quick win” by ending the war, he’s just lifting objections to tougher sanctions on Russia, and allowing those who support Ukraine to do what they always wanted to do. I would wager Ukraine will need to “walk on eggshells” though because this manchild changes his mind so much this could change tomorrow. 

He’s ruining our country, the least he could do is not spread his damn misery around the world as much…

Nicholas3412

wachusett-guy

That would mean that the EU enters a tarrif war with China. So thanks but no.

Stabile_Feldmaus

So India and China. Isn't Apple moving their factories to India?

Lorry_Al

Kagrenac8

So apple will have to shift iphone production again?

SquareJealous9388

It's very good to see the Trump admin u-turn on appeasing Puting. It's very bad that they did what they did at all, though

But doesn't eu still buy repackaged Russian gas from India or somewhere else ?

Small_Delivery_7540

Pff. As soon as Laura Loomer makes another visit to the Oval Office, this deal is toast.

Harbinger2001

China shares a border with Russia. If they continue to secretly trade is roubles/ yuan how world Europe/US know?

Nevermind_kaola

You think the US is going to stick with any of this? Lmao they'll reverse their position by next week and start threatening to sanction the eu. 

PricklyPierre

the title is misleading, the article only says that one us senator has that plan for 500% tariff, and uses the fact that sanctions must be renewed every 6 months to somehow stitch these two as a "joint" sanction on Russia. It's disingenuous, nothing the article says makes the link between the proposed tariff and the european sanctions, and it doesn't provide any evidence that the EU would apply the same sanctions as the USA.

FuriousAqSheep

China will help and by doing so will make them their bitch

smolBoiBigBrain

sooo EU countries that still for some reason buy russian LNG will get sanctioned(?)

Shliopanec

Soo, we will be paying a lot mor for stuff from China, damn, computer prephirales will skyrocket in price.

It is absolutely worth it though to get rid of Putte the Warmongerer.

MidnightAdmin

Unless Trump shuts it down by posting on Truth social on a Friday evening.  
Any promises and agreements coming from US are to be taken with a large crystal of salt.

dustofdeath

Really??????  Are you sure this isn't from a Russian bot????

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if he does, good. this would be super effective.

but on the other side, its now UZA under trump. what do you expect...

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