President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social platform this week that he is “ready to do major sanctions on Russia” and urged fellow NATO members to stop buying oil from Russia. Former Trump deputy national security adviser KT McFarland told Newsmax on Saturday that “Russia is paying for the war in Ukraine from the money it’s making from its oil and natural gas exports.”
“The way Russia makes its money is that it exports oil and natural gas, and it gets paid handsomely for it. And Europe is completely dependent on Russian natural gas. Other countries, India, and others are completely dependent upon Russian oil. Russia is paying for the war in Ukraine from the money it’s making from its oil and natural gas exports, so the hypocrisy of the Europeans especially, who say, ‘Well, America, you should do more, you should do more to help Ukraine,’ when in fact it’s the Europeans who are providing Russia with the money to pay for this war. So, President Trump is saying to the Europeans, ‘Stop your hypocrisy, stop buying Russian oil and natural gas,'” McFarland said during an appearance on “The Count.”
McFarland noted that Trump is attempting to use similar negotiating tactics of former President Ronald Reagan. “Don’t tell me you’re going to wean yourself off of it in a couple of years’ time. Get off of it now because if Russia doesn’t go to the negotiating table, we can’t force them to the negotiating table. We can bankrupt them. That’s how President Reagan won the Cold War. We can take away Russia’s ability to make war by depriving Russia of those resources,” she added.
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