Comment on The one good thing about all this

• ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Trump hasn’t lifted any sanctions on Russia yet. He prolonged them for a year in February, and has been trying to offer the perspective of lifting them in exchange for peace negotiations. But since Putin hasn’t started negotiating in earnest yet, no sanctions have been lifted as far as I know.

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  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One by one

    Trump administration lifts sanctions on wife of Putin ally Boris Rotenberg

    White House directs officials to draft proposal to lift US sanctions on Russia

    White House seeks plan for possible Russia sanctions relief, sources say

    Trump administration disbands task force targeting Russian oligarchs

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    • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One is a sanction lifting on a fairly unimportant woman, true. Two are about “plans” a month ago (nothing was put in practice). Last one is tangentially related. But none are really about lifting sanctions.

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      • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The last one is literally the gutting of the task force that was focused on sanctions enforcement, seizing assets of Russian oligarchs

        Comprehensive sanctions target not only the country and businesses but individuals as well, especially in Russia where the oligarchs control the majority of the nation’s wealth

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