4. Expand oil production which will be good for India/China and bad for Russia/Iran/Venezuela.
4. Expand oil production which will be good for India/China and bad for Russia/Iran/Venezuela.
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5. Maybe use tariffs as a prod for fairer trade and to put pressure on these entities: NATO members not paying their fair share of defense; buyers of Iranian oil; countries supporting Russia such as China. Trump has said publicly that he will de-unite Russia-China. Maybe he will push to remove some sanctions on Russia as a bargaining chip in negotiations, but that might be a hard sell to European allies who might not want to cooperate given Europe's slow-moving, bureaucratic government.
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5. Maybe use tariffs as a prod for fairer trade and to put pressure on these entities: NATO members not paying their fair share of defense; buyers of Iranian oil; countries supporting Russia such as China. Trump has said publicly that he will de-unite Russia-China. Maybe he will push to remove some sanctions on Russia as a bargaining chip in negotiations, but that might be a hard sell to European allies who might not want to cooperate given Europe's slow-moving, bureaucratic government. Also, only around one-in-ten Americans rate Russia favorably.[https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05/08/views-of-russia-and-putin/]