Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JAB Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Subject: US hits Russian oil with toughest sanctions yet in bid to give Ukraine, Trump leverage Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:50:22 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: Reply-To: JAB MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:50:28 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="19d72bd6e58165db0ca7c3e036464f62"; logging-data="253540"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19hVOLA+fKeB8MriGkKi1bK" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:UeGaRhT34KJy7JsAssdW7nU3ioM= US hits Russian oil with toughest sanctions yet in bid to give Ukraine, Trump leverage Sanctions are broadest yet on Russian energy US officials say will cost Russia billions of dollars a month Trump aides were briefed on the sanctions Biden officials expect Russia to circumvent sanctions but doing so will add costs to its oil industry ... ... One of the Biden officials said it was "entirely" up to the President-elect Trump, a Republican, who takes office on Jan. 20, when and on what terms he might lift sanctions imposed during the Biden era. But to do so he would have to notify Congress and give it the ability to take a vote of disapproval, he said. Many Republican members of Congress had urged Biden to impose Friday's sanctions. "Trump's people can't just come in and quietly lift everything that Biden just did. Congress would have to be involved," said Jeremy Paner, a partner at the law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed. .... ... Advisers to Trump have floated proposals that would effectively cede large parts of Ukraine to Russia for the foreseeable future. https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-hits-russian-oil-toughest-sanctions-yet-bid-give-ukraine-trump-leverage-2025-01-10/ >Advisers to Trump have floated proposals that >would effectively cede large parts of Ukraine to Russia Trump's "team" neo-Munich Agreement - Today, the Munich Agreement is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement, and the term has become "a byword for the futility of appeasing expansionist totalitarian states." Wiki