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I am also going to ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down the cost of oil. You have to bring it down which, frankly, I am surprised they didn't do before the election. That didn't show a lot of love by them not doing it. I was a little surprised by that. If the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately,
Trump said in his address This conflict does not depend on oil prices,
he said, ... according to AFP Right now, the price is high enough that the war will continue. You have to bring down the oil price, you have to end that war. They should have done it long ago. They are very responsible, to a certain extent, for what's taking place. Millions of lives are being lost. With oil prices going down, I'll demand that interest rates drop immediately and likewise they should be dropping all over the world,
We'd like to see denuclearisation ... and I will tell you President Putin really liked the idea of cutting way back on nuclear. And I think the rest of the world, we would have gotten them to follow, and China would have come along too,
On Day One of the Trump presidency, I will restore the travel ban, suspend refugee admissions, stop the resettlement and keep the terrorists the hell out of our country."
He went even further on the topic at a campaign rally in July I'm going to give you a report on drones about one day into the administration,
he said to a room of Republican governors at his Mar-a-Lago estate I hope it's not an enemy, but we're going to find out on the 21st, the day after,
We do want to see that conflict end, and it's going to require some very difficult choices,
The whole [Trump] team is obsessed with strength and looking strong, so they're recalibrating the Ukraine approach,
a European official told the outlet We are thinking in terms of 25 percent on Mexico and Canada,
he said on Monday as he signed dozens of executive orders I want to close the border,
Trump said in December 2023 If China didn't approve [a TikTok divestiture deal], we could put tariffs on China."
There's no way Ukraine is also going to push these people all the way back to where they were on the eve of the invasion."
I really would like to be able to meet with President Putin soon to get that war ended, and that's not from the standpoint of economy or anything else. It's from the standpoint of millions of lives are being wasted."
In a highly anticipated address via videolink to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said Our efforts to secure a peace settlement between Russia and Ukraine are now, hopefully, underway. It's so important to get that done."
Without providing details, Trump also said Thursday Lower oil prices will hit the Russian budget really hard. In December 2024, Russian trade surplus was the lowest since 2020. If Donald Trump restores the effectiveness of the price cap for Russian oil, Russian federal budget losses will be even greater,
By decisively cutting off Russian energy revenues from fossil fuels, the US can lead the world in pressuring Moscow to end its aggression and support Ukraine’s fight for sovereignty,
the founder of Razom We Stand clean energy campaign group told The Independent These can be Russia’s fintech sector, companies involved in the development of e-ruble, central bank digital currency used as an alternative to the SWIFT international payment system Russia is already cut off from, and cryptocurrency payment systems,
Let’s get this war, which never would have started if I were President, over with! We can do it the easy way, or the hard way — and the easy way is always better. It’s time to ‘MAKE A DEAL.’ NO MORE LIVES SHOULD BE LOST!!!
The thing with Ukraine is that many more people died than what you're reporting. You're not reporting the real numbers, and I'm not blaming you for that. I'm blaming maybe our government for not wanting to release those numbers,
