The US Department of Treasury has announced new sanctions targeting Russia’s two largest oil companies - Rosneft and Lukoil - in an effort to pressure Moscow to negotiate a peace deal in Ukraine.

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      Trump is transactional, not strategic. He is in constant, unconcscious need of narcissistic nourishment. Because of his constant failure, he will follow whatever instantaneous action supplies him so that he can maintain his inner self-image.

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      For russia. These sanctions are basically toothless, Russian corporations have already decoupled from the Western banking system and are shadow-fleeting all their oil to willing buyers in India and China without much reduction in flow. This is a theater play.