Trump threatens the definitions targeting Russia without an agreement to end the Ukraine war in 50 days

Washington President Trump said on Monday that the United States will impose a 100 % tariff on countries that deal with Russia if there is no peace agreement to end the war in Ukraine within 50 days, and reveals his plans to implement secondary sanctions while frustrating from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“We will make a secondary tariff if we do not have a deal within 50 days. It is very simple,” said Mr. Trump at the Oval Office, along with NATO Secretary -General Mark Retti. “They will be 100 %.”

“We are very unhappy, I, with Russia,” the president explained.

Mr. Trump also said that the United States had reached a deal to sell weapons to NATO countries, and Roti said that these countries will in turn send weapons to Ukraine to renew their exhausted stocks. Pentagon Temporarily Shipping of some arms shipments to Ukraine earlier this month, but Mr. Trump A reverse path Last week, Ukraine should be able to defend itself.

“We have concluded today’s deal where we will send them weapons and will pay for them,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the Oval Office. “We, the United States, will not have any batch. We don’t buy it, but we will manufacture it, and we will pay for that.”

“This is really big,” said Roti, who said that Mr. Trump called him last week to inform him of his decision. “The decision is that you want Ukraine (to have) what you should keep to be able to defend itself against Russia, but you want the Europeans to pay for it, which is completely logical.”

On Monday, Mr. Trump expressed his frustration with Putin after his multiple calls with the Russian leader since he took office in January.

“I always hang, say,” Well, that was a nice phone call. “Then the missiles are launched in Kiev or another city and say,” This is strange. “After that happens three or four times, she says, the conversation does not mean anything.”

Mr. Trump said of Putin: “He – I do not want to say he is a killer, but he is a difficult man,” adding that Putin had deceived other presidents, but he did not deceive me. ”

“In the end, the conversation does not speak, this work should be, it must be the results,” said Mr. Trump.

Some in Congress pushed higher secondary sanctions on Russia as the war continues. Senator Lindsey Graham pushes the Senate legislation that would give the president the ability to impose a tariff of up to 500 % on any country that helps Russia. He said “The nation was confronted with Margaret Brennan” On Sunday that these sanctions will give Mr. Trump a “heavy hammer” to end the war.

“We pursue people who keep Putin at work, and additional sanctions on Russia itself,” said Graham. “This is really a heavy hammer available to President Trump to end this war.”

Graham described this as a “turning point” in the war that started when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

Graham, a close ally of Mr. Trump, told “Confronting the Nation” that the United States “gave Ukraine a lot. We give them money, and we give them military assistance.” But he indicated that there could be “a plan in which America will start selling to our European allies, huge amounts of weapons that could benefit Ukraine.”

French Republican Hill, who led the legislation during the Biden administration that gave the main authority to seize foreign assets, said in “confronting the nation” on Sunday that it was time to act.

“I think the time has come for the president to convert those assets that were seized into a reckoning account in favor of Ukraine,” Hill said.

No American president has ever seized the origins of the sovereign central bank of a country, not in the United States, in war. Former US officials told CBS News that the Biden administration refused to use this authority because of the European opposition related to the unintended consequences of its banking and economics systems that may result from the seizure of these government assets.