If Trump Lifts Russia Sanctions, What Would It Mean?: QuickTake

The US and its allies imposed thousands of sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, in an attempt to slow Moscow’s war machine. As President Donald Trump seeks to negotiate an end to the conflict, his administration has both hinted at an easingof those restrictions and threatened new measures to speed things along.

It’s hard to tell whether Trump would actually follow through on toughening up sanctions. In one day alone, he saidhe was “very angry” with Russian President Vladimir Putin and warned that buyers of Russian oil could be hit with so-called secondary tariffs ...