{"id":62125,"date":"2025-09-13T18:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/62125\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T18:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:33:07","slug":"trump-urges-nato-countries-to-stop-buying-russian-oil-to-end-ukraine-war-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/62125\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump urges Nato countries to stop buying Russian oil to end Ukraine war \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> has said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-war\/\">Russia-Ukraine war<\/a> would end if all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/north-atlantic-treaty-organisation-nato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/north-atlantic-treaty-organisation-nato\/\">Nato<\/a> countries stopped buying oil from Russia, and placed tariffs on China of 50 to 100 per cent for its purchases of Russian petroleum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The US president posted on his social media site that Nato\u2019s commitment to winning the war \u201chas been far less than 100%\u201d and the purchase of Russian oil by some members is \u201cshocking\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt greatly weakens your negotiating position, and bargaining power, over Russia,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Nato member Turkey has been the third-largest buyer of Russian oil, after China and India. according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Other members of the 32-state alliance involved in purchasing Russian oil include Hungary and Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The letter comes at a tense moment in the conflict after the recent flight of multiple Russian drones into Poland, an escalatory move by Moscow as it was entering the air space of a Nato member. Poland shot down the drones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It also comes as US Congress tries to get Mr Trump behind a Bill toughening sanctions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In his post he said a Nato ban on Russian oil plus tariffs on China would \u201calso be of great help in ENDING this deadly, but RIDICULOUS, WAR\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The president said Nato members should also put 50% to 100% tariffs on China and withdraw them if the war that was launched with Russia\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine ends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cChina has a strong control, and even grip, over Russia,\u201d he posted, and powerful tariffs \u201cwill break that grip\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The US president has already placed a 25 per cent import tax on goods from India for its buying of Russian energy products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Trump said responsibility for the war fell on his predecessor Joe Biden and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. He did not include in that list Russian president Vladimir Putin, who launched the invasion. \u2013 AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has said the Russia-Ukraine war would end if all Nato countries stopped buying oil from Russia,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,550,7,8,2264,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-62125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-ukraine-crisis","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}