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Created: 2025-07-21 19:32:04 UTC

Europe tightens screws on Putin with sanctions—while Trump admin floats XXX% oil tariffs that paradoxically punish Americans to "save" them. The same tariffs that in 2018 cost U.S. consumers $500B, triggered retaliatory chaos, yet left Putin stronger.  

Trump’s tariff obsession treats trade as zero-sum warfare, ignoring that every dollar spent on Russian oil under sanctions already flows back to prop up U.S. Treasuries. His 2018 steel tariffs raised prices X% industry-wide while Russia boosted exports 23%—proving tariffs enrich autocrats through market distortions. Now doubling down, the admin risks repeating history: tariffs act as hidden taxes (CBO estimates +$1.4T consumer burden by 2027) while Putin laughs at economic pain outsourced to U.S. wallets.  

Strongmen win when democracies pay to shoot their own feet.


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