President Donald Trump doubled his requirement that European countries will stop all energy sales from Russia, while he is approaching his very first sanctions in Moscow since he returned to the office in the midst of his war in Ukraine.
On Sunday evening with reporters, Trump said that European countries, especially those in NATO, are not doing enough to combat Russia, despite the new round of sanctions established by the EU last week.
“They don’t do the work. NATO has to come together. Europe has to come together,” said Trump. “Europe … they are my friends, but they buy oil from Russia, so we can’t be expected to be the only one who, you know, be full bore.”
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“Europe buys oil from Russia. I don’t want them to buy oil,” he continued and noted that the sanctions that Europe has spent on Russia and Russian officials “are not difficult enough.”
“I am willing to do sanctions, but they have to intensify their sanctions with what I do,” Trump confirmed.
Although European countries have drastically reduced their dependence on Moscow’s oil after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, they did not fully demolish it – in particular countries such as Hungary, Slovakije, France, Belgium and Spain, which are Europe’s best importers of Russian energy.
Hungary – whose president remains friendly with Putin, despite the fact that it is a NATO nation – is the most important importer of Europe of Russian crude oil and pipeline gas and buys more than double the Russian energy import of other European nation.
France, the second largest European buyer of Russian energy, continues to import liquid natural gas (LNG) that has largely has bypassed EU sanctionsPartly due to long -term legally binding obligations.
These agreements mean that Paris has committed to “accepting” contracts in the early 2030s fines. Although reporting suggests that LNG’s import is not only planned for French consumption and are passed on to countries of third parties such as Germany.
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Last month, the EU’s Data Protection Authority confirmed that the block had almost imported $ 5.2 billion in Russian LNG In the first half of 2025.
Trump’s comments came only one day after he Letter to NATO That said, he is “ready to do large sanctions on Russia when all NATO countries have been agreed and started, to do the same, and when all NATO countries stop buying oil from Russia,” said a function he made socially on the truth.
But on Sunday asked about his plans to touch Russia with extra American sanctions – which have not been extensive since the Biden administration – he suggested that Europe should be possible Stop all LNG -Import also.
The president claimed that all Russian imports should be excluded at the moment and said: “The deal is that they are not assumed – whether it is natural gas or that it is cigarettes, I don’t care – they should not buy from Russia.”
The president did not expand to which deal he orphan and he did not comment on the US $ 2.1 billion in Russian import It bought in the first five months of 2025, largely consisting of enriched uranium, palladium and fertilizers.
President Donald Trump, Right, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, arrive for a joint press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Friday, August 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Moreover, he called on NATO fellow people to hit China with “50% to 100% rates” that he said would not be withdrawn until after the war in Ukraine – a rate that is currently higher than the 30% rates that Washington has drawn up at Bejing, although it could be considerably expanding of the recent threat to China for China to be china Rates as high as 200%.
