On August 7, Samantha Vinograd, nonresident senior fellow at the Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative, appeared on CBS News to discuss President Trump’s announcement of an additional 25% tariff to be imposed on India as the country continues to buy Russian oil.
US strategy to end the war in Ukraine has really been pegged to the assessment that the economy is Putin’s soft spot. Because of that, the US goal, along with several European countries, has been to put enough economic pressure on Russia that they feel forced to come to the negotiating table to get economic relief and then ultimately to end the war in Ukraine.
