Russia gloats over Trump’s tariffs: “Our country will become a great superpower and Trump will help with that”
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by GrumpyFinn
Russia gloats over Trump’s tariffs: “Our country will become a great superpower and Trump will help with that”
https://www.hs.fi/maailma/art-2000011150453.html
by GrumpyFinn
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Russia sees some benefit from the tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed on almost all countries except it.
Economist Aleksei Zubets estimated in Russian media that one of the most important benefits for Russia is that Western countries will “forget” about Ukraine while focusing on the trade war started by the United States.
According to Zubets, the war in Ukraine ceased to be the center of attention last Wednesday, when Trump announced new tariffs on almost all countries.
For example, the United States imposed a 20 percent import tariff on the European Union.
“Everyone is interested in US tariffs and their consequences for Europe, Asia and the whole world. Ukraine is no longer of interest to anyone, and that’s good,” Zubets commented to Gazeta.ru .
Only Russia, Belarus, North Korea and Cuba were exempt from US tariffs, the first three of which are involved in the war of aggression in Ukraine.
The United States has already imposed several sanctions on Russia, which has restricted Russian trade with the United States.
According to Russian media reports , trade between the United States and Russia was $3.5 billion last year, the lowest figure since 1992.
The corresponding figure before Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2021 was $35 billion.
Oleg Savchenko , deputy chairman of the State Duma’s Financial Markets Committee and Duma representative, is gloating over the tariffs imposed by Trump.
He said Russia knows what awaits countries that are subject to tariffs.
“Russia has experienced all these difficulties because of sanctions. We are ready for any challenges, so we can sit with popcorn and watch how this ends,” Savchenko told Gazeta.ru.
However, Savchenko does not believe that the Russian economy will benefit in any way from avoiding tariffs.
Russian experts have different views on whether the Russian economy benefits from avoiding customs duties or not.
Russia, isolated by various sanctions, is not completely disconnected from the global economy, so Trump’s tariffs will ultimately affect it as well.
Investment analyst Aleksandr Razuyev considers Russia’s exclusion from tariffs above all as a sign of friendship.
“It is kind to both our country and personally to President Vladimir Putin .”
He has written a comment on the impact of Trump’s tariffs on Russia on the Finam.ru market website.
Razujev writes that customs duties raise the prices of all goods in the world, which also makes illegal imports to Russia more expensive.
He believes that Trump’s tariffs will also have a negative impact on the Russian economy, even though it avoided tariffs, unlike 185 other countries.
Razuyev predicts that the trade war will lead to a global recession and lower oil prices, which will be detrimental to the Russian economy.
However, he looks ahead.
“We are living in very interesting times. I believe that our country will play all its trump cards and become a great superpower. And Trump will help with that, but it will not happen until all the dead and wounded as a result of his policies are removed.”
Economist Mikhail Belyaev, in turn, estimated for the Regnum news website that US tariffs are forcing European countries to turn towards Russia.
The Chinese market is so competitive that, according to Belyaev, Europeans will not survive unless they reorient their trade to the East.
Trump now applies Tariffs to Russia: -20%.
Hate when reality jumps the shark.
This is beyond satire. If the Onion posted this last week people wouldn’t have batted an eye
I mean sure but, huh, about the maths : Russia is 2/3 of Italy’s GDP with all the petrol and gaz in the world and 144m people (-the ones dead in Ukraine).
I’m all in to get surprised but this is a moonshot.
Trump makes his boss very, very happy. I wonder if MAGA fans realize that their country is getting fucked?
Enjoy your low oil prices.
Well, they get what they paid for.
Tank stock market, wealthy Russians buy his “gold card” citizenship, they buy up the cheap stock and/or buy out the companies that have gone bankrupt.
Trump is the best Russian product in history.
All the hard work americans were putting for generations into their country becoming great and their lives being better than average is destroyed in 3 months of Trumps presidency.
Putin needs to get Nobel prize for economics for destroying USA with Trump
One day they will all have paved roads, running water and a sewer system.
Incoming in the news: Trump announce Free trade agreement with Russia, “to help with ~~peace~~ piss talks”.
Trump working for Russia is the new normal.
I wish the EU would just dogpile Russia from all sides and crush that twerp once and for all. Maybe Trump’s shittery will be the impetus they need.
Dude, when oil prices tumble, Russia will burn brighter than the Hindenburg. And Trump is doing just that.
It’s a contest between who is more delusional: Trump and his coterie or Putin and his coterie.
There’s never been any other reason for tariffs than ruzz payback for the sanctions…that’s it, always has been
So it’s going to be the US and Russia against the rest of the world huh? I think this hasn’t been thought through very much
Funny how these tariffs are making waves across the globe. Europe’s been through its own share of economic challenges and its always interesting to see how different countries react to the same issue. Guess it shows how interconnected we all are!
Lol average Russian doesnt understand the level of tariffs they are on at the moment… The second that war stops, country goes into chaos and economy hits rock bottom. On life support now working for war industry.
[russian markets slump after trump tariffs oil price collapse](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/05/russian-markets-reel-from-trump-tariffs-oil-price-collapse-a88618)
***The Moscow Exchange was down 8.5% at the end of trading on Friday, with $23.7 billion in market capitalization wiped out in two days.***
Yay more evidence that Russia is behind the shit trump is pulling.
Krasnov at work.
Precisely. Frankly, I’m impressed with how easily Russia destroyed America.
Moscows investment in agent Krasnov has paid off handsomely.
Superpower? That medieval outhouse they call russia? How and with what? Are they trying to sell permafrost? Name 10 products and innovations only russians produce and the rest of the world desperately needs so much that russia becomes a superpower. Right now they just a suckerpower and sad AF.
All of this because of a pee video.
US doesn’t not negociate with terrorists. Nope, they just bend over and take it.
# “OuR cOunTrY wilL bEcoMe a GreaT sUpeRpOwer anD TruMp wIlL heLp wiTh thAt”
Holy fuck this country is insufferable.
Krasnov
Russia once again thinks “dragging everybody else down” is the same as “becoming great.” The day they drop that attitude is the day they can begin to make progress.
Name just one thing Trump does that an Agent Krasnov would never do. I’ll wait.
their sponsored economic warfare is so obvious. the orange tyrant had his pockets lined and he has not imposed tariffs on that country. the global image of the U.S. is permanently tarnished and cooperative alliances have been broken. the orange tyrant is jailing innocent, legal residents in a foreign prison with no chance of due process or return. the U.S. is being demolished, but not without the casualties of other countries, with one incurious omission…
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