Vlad, Fair and reciprocal is not a complicated concept, although execution may be more complicated.
Average import tariff USA = 3.5%.
Somebody is full of shittake.link here
Putin happily holding the mantle for globalism and klepto-capitalism. And Macron, LaGarde, and EU-crats seem all too happy to join his order longside Iran and China. They forge their pact under euphemisms like “Paris Climate Accord” , “Iran Nuclear Deal”, and “Two State Palestine Solution.”
Isn’t Germany already on board with the NordStream pipeline? Russian oligarchs riding high.
Lame.
And barely a peep from the EU-crats at the St. Petersburg forum about the proof Australia and the Netherlands (the Hague) have to incriminate Russia on the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 that killed 298 people in East Ukraine. Instead Russia is rewarded with billions of dollars in new investments and contracts. And Trump is made the outlier.
Figures.
Translation: Vlad wants us to BOHICA
But but but he’s Putin’s puppet!
Imagine trayed peas.
[Little play on the old “imagine whorled peas” bumper stickers.]