{"id":315028,"date":"2025-09-10T07:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315028"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T07:18:53","slug":"trump-reportedly-pushing-eu-to-join-him-in-punishing-china-and-india-with-massive-tariffs-for-defying-his-orders-to-stop-buying-russian-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315028","title":{"rendered":"Trump reportedly pushing EU to join him in punishing China and India with massive tariffs for defying his orders to stop buying Russian oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leo Hohmann \u2013 Leo\u2019s Newsletter Sept 9, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Let\u2019s be clear. When you consider the historical record of economic wars preceding kinetic wars, this is a dangerous, dare I say reckless, policy.<\/p>\n

Trying to bully a nuclear power into accepting a peace deal with an enemy it is on the verge of defeating is a recipe for disaster. Any peace reached will not last long.<\/p>\n

Trump is backing two of the world\u2019s largest countries, China and Russia, with two of the most powerful militaries and nuclear arsenals, into a corner, potentially forcing them to resort to military means to get themselves out of the jam.<\/p>\n

Whoever is advising President Trump to play this card lacks discernment and wisdom. Again, the word that keeps coming to mind is RECKLESS. But it may also be a sign of DESPERATION.<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s promise to end the Russia-Ukraine war on day one of his presidency has proved a huge frustration to him. He doesn\u2019t like to fail.<\/p>\n

But he can\u2019t let his frustration lead him to gamble with U.S. national security. If China, now teamed up with India and Russia, decide to call Trump\u2019s bluff and continue buying Russian oil, what\u2019s the next step in the escalation? What cards does Trump have left to play? I think the neocons in Washington are setting him up, laying down a trap that ends in direct kinetic war with Russia. That\u2019s a catastrophe in the making.<\/p>\n

Does the Trump administration, running out of economic options, resort to covert military action against Russia? Perhaps even overt action? And how would Russia respond to such a direct assault on its sovereignty? What makes the U.S. the boss that gets to decide where countries buy their oil from? Isn\u2019t that an attack on their sovereignty and self-determination? Won\u2019t this be seen as a declaration of war by those countries?<\/p>\n

These are questions that you would think are being seriously discussed in Trump\u2019s National Security Council, but the signs coming out of the White House give no indication they are.<\/p>\n

God help us.<\/p>\n

Pray for peace. Prepare for war.<\/p>\n

Subscribe.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Is the U.S. in a position to dictate the terms of a peace deal to Russia when it is winning its war with Ukraine? Trump thinks so and he’s willing to gamble with U.S. national security on that assumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39267,"featured_media":315031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,41,91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315030,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315028\/revisions\/315030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/315031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}