drastically reduced their reliance<\/a> on Russian energy since the start of Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion in 2022, but Hungary and Slovakia remain substantial buyers of Russian oil and gas and have so far resisted pressure to stop doing so.<\/p>\nEU officials have spent the past few months trying to convince Trump to come onboard with economic measures against Moscow. Some diplomats have privately voiced skepticism that the U.S. president is serious about moving forward, with one EU official saying last week the American leader was “inventing reasons not to do anything.”<\/p>\n
The EU executive branch in Brussels last week tabled its 19th round of sanctions against Russia, taking aim at banks, energy companies and the cryptocurrency sector. Chinese and Indian entities were also included as the EU aims to clamp down on companies that help Moscow evade the sanctions.<\/p>\n
In Trump’s address to the U.N. assembly, in which he said that the war was \u201cnot making Russia look good,\u201d he also blasted China and India for what he said was being the \u201cprimary funders of the ongoing war by continuing to purchase Russian oil.\u201d<\/p>\n
But, he added, NATO countries had \u201cinexcusably not cut off much Russian energy and Russian energy products. Think of it: They\u2019re funding the war against themselves. Who the hell ever heard of that one?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“So I\u2019m ready to discuss this,” he continued. “We\u2019re going to discuss it today with the European nations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[5108,331,768,1395,5719,2437,32,35,2000,299,5187,1699,2190,40,730,2661,332,2663,2558,479,657,49,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-446319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-asylum","9":"tag-banks","10":"tag-borders","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-cities","13":"tag-companies","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-european-union","20":"tag-hungary","21":"tag-immigration","22":"tag-india","23":"tag-oil","24":"tag-russia","25":"tag-sanctions","26":"tag-slovakia","27":"tag-tariffs","28":"tag-ukraine","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115254704636520719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}