US President could bankrupt Russian economy by flooding market with gas, claims his transition team leader
Russian gas tanker Alexey Kosygin; Donald Trump could ‘unleash American energy power’, an official has said This would be backed by a threat to “unleash American energy power” if the Kremlin does not co-operate.
Trump’s new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said on Tuesday that ending the war would become official US policy but that it would be “complicated” because both sides would “have to give something”. Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said this month it was not “realistic to say that we’re going to expel every Russian off every inch of Ukrainian soil, even from Crimea”.
The increase has preceded moves to limit the flow, including Ukraine shutting down a major pipeline through its territory, and newThe outgoing Biden administration, in one of its final acts, also imposed new sanctions on the Russian fuel sector, targeting oil and gas facilities, companies and shipping.
Dr Georgy Ostapkovich, a Russian economist at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, predicted that a Trump-led increase in US fuel exports could lead to sharp drop in theUkrainian soldiers train in a French AMX-10 armoured fighting vehicle.
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