{"id":577048,"date":"2025-11-17T22:31:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/577048\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T22:31:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T22:31:41","slug":"time-to-use-stick-on-putin-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/577048\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to use stick on Putin \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Trump\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cd6758pn6ylo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">placed new sanctions<\/a>\u00a0on two of Russia\u2019s largest oil companies \u2014 Rosneft and Lukoil \u2014 a move the Finnish president applauded.<\/p>\n<p>Stubb said the U.S. is right to move ahead with the bill given Putin&#8217;s unwillingness to embrace a ceasefire. &#8220;The only person Putin listens to is an oligarch,&#8221; Finland&#8217;s leader said. &#8220;In that sense, if the oligarchs come to the conclusion in Russia that economically this is too complicated, then things might start to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if Europe should try to engage directly with Putin as proposed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n, Stubb said: &#8220;Whenever that moment [for direct talks] comes, which it will at some stage &#8230; it&#8217;ll have to be coordinated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For now, Stubb said he was happy with Washington&#8217;s taking a leading role. &#8220;If we can contribute &#8230; if we can mediate, if we can have conversations with the Ukrainians, with the Americans, with the Europeans, I think that&#8217;s good enough,&#8221; he said, adding that a just and lasting peace is more important than Europe&#8217;s getting a photo op.<\/p>\n<p>Ceasefire &#8216;not in the cards&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On the prospect of a ceasefire in Ukraine, Stubb was downbeat, noting he had pressed for a ceasefire deadline around Easter, ahead of the Aug. 15 Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska, and again ahead of the upcoming Nov. 22-23 G20 gathering in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Failing all this and reading the room right now, having had conversations with [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy on Friday, with my American friends and European friends over the past few weeks, I just don&#8217;t see that [a ceasefire] in the cards,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, Trump\u00a0placed new sanctions\u00a0on two of Russia\u2019s largest oil companies \u2014 Rosneft and Lukoil \u2014 a move&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[766,15856,1789,1194,2437,2825,32,2595,35,2000,12921,299,769,2826,806,2992,48,332,7339,2663,657,49,1220,1781],"class_list":{"0":"post-577048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-alexander-stubb","9":"tag-bart-de-wever","10":"tag-belgium","11":"tag-budget","12":"tag-companies","13":"tag-debt","14":"tag-donald-trump","15":"tag-drones","16":"tag-energy","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-eu-budget","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-finland","21":"tag-golf","22":"tag-industry","23":"tag-mark-rutte","24":"tag-rights","25":"tag-russia","26":"tag-russia-sanctions","27":"tag-sanctions","28":"tag-ukraine","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","31":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115567413748365446","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577048","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=577048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}