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“Nothing will happen until Putin and I are together,” Donald Trump announced last week after the President of Russia. Failure For the Ukrainian peace talks in Türkiye, on which the Kremlin incites. The two leaders met on Monday, by phone, for two hours. But nothing happened. US President Kiev and Moscow will start negotiations on the ceasefire, but he was leaving the matter to the warrior Sorting. There was no sign of the pressure that he might finally put on his Russian counterpart. Instead, the American president gave the impression that it was Walk away From peace efforts.

Trump’s indulgence to the Russian leader, who was bound by months ago. He has repeatedly threatened to contract unless Putin accepts the ceasefire and comes to the negotiating table. Every time he was hindering. By doing this, Trump plays in the hand of Moscow. Putin is encouraged to fight, when Russian forces have the edge in the battlefield against Ukraine, they are afraid that American military support will be withdrawn at any moment. It seems that Putin believes that his goal of subjugating Ukraine either can be achieved without exposing Trump’s economic reset, or that precedence over everything else.

The US president later said on Monday that Washington was not retreating from Ukrainian conflictAlthough he was thinking if he should do so. The master of the diplomatic deal will now realize that it is not the moment that must be withdrawn, but to intensify pressure on the leader of Russia to reach conditions. If the White House does not do, then Congress and other Ukraine allies must Do this instead.

European countries will need to move quickly to implement plans to maintain weapons flowing to Kyiv If the United States walks awayIncluding by buying American weapons and financing expanded military industry in Ukraine. They should also multiply, on the efforts made to convert Putin’s account about the time the fighting can continue – by tightening sanctions on the summary of Russia’s economy, which, despite its clear flexibility, faces the installation of basic pressure.

The most effective is to close the gaps and reduce the maximum prices on Russian oil exports, which do more than others to maintain its war economy. Moscow partially escapes from the cover using its fleet of “shade” carriers. But the coordinator of modern penalties on shadow ships indicates that they have Almost half The ability to use for the Russian fleet-which forces the Russian exporters to rely more on the prevailing tankers compatible with the sanctions. This gives policy makers more influence over oil export revenues.

After more sanctions in the European Union this week, it targeted nearly 200 shadow ships, Brussels submitted to the G7 Finance in Canada a plan to use the next sanctions package to Reducing price ceiling – Hoping to record the White House. Meanwhile, Russia, hawks in the US Senate, including some of Trump’s leading Republicans, prepared a draft law that imposes 500 percent secondary fees on imports from countries that buy oil, gas, or Russian uranium, if Moscow is not seriously involved in the Ukraine talks.

The Senate’s step aims to give the president a tool if he chooses to use it, but-since it has a majority-resistant majority-it opens the possibility of Congress on its own if he does not. But by using a jumbo tariff, the Senate’s plan can increase the stability of the global economy. The plan must be modified instead to join the G7 efforts to pay the oil price ceiling.

These are dark days for Ukraine afraid that the President of the United States is about to sell it under the river. It is up to her other friends – in Congress and other Western capitals – to reach their promises of support and avoid that disaster.