Comment on The one good thing about all this
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 week agoTrump hasn’t lifted any sanctions on Russia yet. He prolonged them for a year in February, and has been trying to offer the perspective of lifting them in exchange for peace negotiations. But since Putin hasn’t started negotiating in earnest yet, no sanctions have been lifted as far as I know.
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 1 week ago
One by one
Trump administration lifts sanctions on wife of Putin ally Boris Rotenberg
White House directs officials to draft proposal to lift US sanctions on Russia
White House seeks plan for possible Russia sanctions relief, sources say
Trump administration disbands task force targeting Russian oligarchs
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 week ago
One is a sanction lifting on a fairly unimportant woman, true. Two are about “plans” a month ago (nothing was put in practice). Last one is tangentially related. But none are really about lifting sanctions.
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The last one is literally the gutting of the task force that was focused on sanctions enforcement, seizing assets of Russian oligarchs
Comprehensive sanctions target not only the country and businesses but individuals as well, especially in Russia where the oligarchs control the majority of the nation’s wealth
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 week ago
Sanctioned oligarchs have completely different sanctions than trade sanctions that apply to countries. Apples and oranges.