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[[President Donald Trump]] threatened [[Russia]] with new [[energy]] sanctions. The main feature of the threat were "secondary [[economic sanctions|sanctions]]", countries who buy Russian oil will be cut off from [[trade]] with the [[US]]. This includes [[India]] and [[China]].  U.S. total goods trade with China was an estimated $582.4 billion in 2024. U.S. goods [[export]]s to China in 2024 were $143.5 billion.  In 2023-24, the U.S. was the largest trading partner of India with $119.71 billion bilateral trade in goods ($77.51 billion worth of exports, $42.19 billion of [[import]]s, with $35.31 billion [[trade surplus]]).

[[President Donald Trump]] threatened [[Russia]] with new [[energy]] sanctions. The main feature of the threat were "secondary [[economic sanctions|sanctions]]", countries who buy Russian oil will be cut off from [[trade]] with the [[US]]. This includes [[India]] and [[China]].  U.S. total goods trade with China was an estimated $582.4 billion in 2024. U.S. goods [[export]]s to China in 2024 were $143.5 billion.  In 2023-24, the U.S. was the largest trading partner of India with $119.71 billion bilateral trade in goods ($77.51 billion worth of exports, $42.19 billion of [[import]]s, with $35.31 billion [[trade surplus]]).

 

===Trump reaches out to Putin===

===Trump reaches out to Putin===

In the phone call of February 12, 2025 between Putin and Trump it was decided to reestablish normal [[diplomatic]] relations and a meeting dealing with that question took place in [[Riyadh]] on February 18, 2025 between teams led by [[Lavrov]] and [[Rubio]]. That resulted in a period of six weeks until the end of March 2025 for normalcy to resume. One of the first steps many predicted, since it would be the easiest sign of [[good faith]] by Trump, was the repatriation of the diplomatic properties stolen from Russia during the [[Obama]] and [[First Trump administration]]s. However, by early April nothing of the sort occurred, which remained a reason for distrust to exist on the Russian side.<ref>https://tass.com/politics/1941039</ref>  

In the phone call of February 12, 2025 between Putin and Trump it was decided to reestablish normal [[diplomatic]] relations and a meeting dealing with that question took place in [[Riyadh]] on February 18, 2025 between teams led by [[Lavrov]] and [[Rubio]]. That resulted in a period of six weeks until the end of March 2025 for normalcy to resume. One of the first steps many predicted, since it would be the easiest sign of [[good faith]] by Trump, was the repatriation of the diplomatic properties stolen from Russia during the [[Obama]] and [[First Trump administration]]s. However, by early April nothing of the sort occurred, which remained a reason for distrust to exist on the Russian side.<ref>https://tass.com/politics/1941039</ref>