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GW,
Fact -- Biden maintained sanctions upon Russia. Fact -- Trump did not.
The problem isn't with what you think you know, it's with what you think you know that just isn't so. Start going to actual US government websites and news outlets that deliver actual news instead of leftist talking points and propaganda.
According to its registration data, the ship also has been known as the Gallileo, owned and managed by a company in Russia. In addition, a tanker with the same registration number previously sailed under the name Pegas and was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for moving cargoes of illicit Russian oil.
From 2025:
Trump’s Sanctions on Russia Are Serious—Enforcement Will Decide Whether They Work
From 2019:
On the record: The U.S. administration’s actions on Russia
The Trump administration’s policy actions often seemed at odds with the President’s rhetoric. To set the record on policy actions, rather than rhetoric, Alina Polyakova and Filippos Letsas tracked the administration’s concrete actions on Russia from 2017 to 2019.
52 separate actions against Russia during his first term in office, which was before the Russians decided to invade Ukraine while President Biden's underlings were in office.
You told me to ignore what they say and watch what they do. Well, this is what President Trump's administration is actually doing- taking direct kinetic action against Russian energy exports to bring their economy to a screeching halt. Sanctions haven't done as much as magical thinkers want them to because Russia is no longer trading with countries that care about enforcing our sanctions. However, President Trump has applied even more sanctions against Russia, as-if direct kinetic action against them wasn't sufficient to inform Putin about how his administration feels about Putin starting a war against Ukraine.
You are uninformed, misinformed, or deliberately lying. Which is it?
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GW,
You know what part is craziest to me?
You'd would rather believe liars who are paid to brainwash incurious people into swallowing their political ideology, because it agrees with your internal monologue about President Trump, than to accept the nature of objective reality. Reality is about as far from their fictional "alternate reality" as it could possibly be. You can still harbor irrational hatred towards President Trump without ever imbibing in the radical left's make-believe hate-fueled alternate reality about him. Hate, hate, hate, and hate some more, so long as you realize most of your supposed "facts" are pure fictitious leftist brain vomit fed into your head by people who are even more irrational and equally filled with hate, who will say and do absolutely anything to further their agenda.
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Kbd512:
Don't attribute things to me that I did not say. In post 26, only the first quote is something I actually said. The implication, deserved or not, is that I said the other 2. And I did not.
In post 25, the plot is a government office-supplied piece of data. It says Trump amped-up aid, with a lot more to come. If you believe the chart in the first place. Which I do not. That chart does NOT match what Ukraine received. Which since a year ago, is mostly only from the Europeans.
As for current government office-supplied information, I believe NOTHING anymore, precisely because of the exposed lies of Trump appointees heading the various agencies. RFK Jr is only 1 example who is totally notorious now. Noem is another. Trump himself is another. There are many more. Liars all. As are all politicians, left or right wing.
You can tell when they lie: their lips are moving! Look ONLY at what they really do (and not what some internet news source tells you they do). Events cannot be hidden as easily as comments can be lies! Talk is cheap. Hiding actions is not.
How are their lies different from the lies of Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler? Or any of their minions? Not in any discernable way! Which is a part of why I am alarmed for American democracy, and why I oppose them the way that I do. Only 1 part, though. Only one out of my 10 hallmarks of dictatorships. At least 7 of which I see as fully in place now.
I do not know what Trump might have put back in place regarding sanctions against Russia after his little disillusionment episode with Putin, not responding to his "peace effort". Which episode seems to have passed quickly, and Trump reverted to form, as near as I have observed. Before that episode, Trump did remove all the sanctions Biden had in place. I have seen NONE put back in place that I can verify, excepting perhaps denying Venezuelan oil to Russia.
However, the Venezuelan tankers are small change compared to what Trump removed in the way of sanctions. Your post ignores that little fact.
As I said, BELIEVE NO WORDS of anybody, on either side! Look only at what people in positions of authority actually do!
And THAT is what I do! As I have repeatedly told you! And I have repeatedly recommended that you should do, too!
"Flaming" me for believing other than you, will NOT EVER change my mind! All it can do is induce me not to bother looking at this thread anymore. Is THAT what you really want?
GW
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