{"id":176601,"date":"2025-08-26T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176601\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T09:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:00:18","slug":"low-on-sanctions-ammo-against-putin-eu-pins-hopes-on-trump-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/176601\/","title":{"rendered":"Low on sanctions ammo against Putin, EU pins hopes on Trump \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Shagina, a sanctions expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said that while the Russian economy looks \u201csuperficially resilient,\u201d it is already creaking under Western pressure.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/13265539-1024x613.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7055577\"  \/>Many observers argue Russian President Vladimir Putin only engaged with Donald Trump in Alaska after Washington introduced high tariffs against India over its purchase of Russia\u2019s economic lifeblood: oil. | Kremlin pool photo by Gavriil Grigorov via Sputnik\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLower oil prices, the stagnation in the military-industrial sector, looming banking crisis and ever-growing military expenses put the Russian economy on the course of recession,\u201d she said. \u201cSanctions on the Russian shadow fleet is one of many factors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Secondary sanctions of the kind that could be imposed by the U.S. on companies dealing with Russian firms \u201cwould dramatically exacerbate the existing problems of the Russian economy. However, the Kremlin doesn\u2019t buy the Trump administration\u2019s threats, so it thinks it can weather the storm for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Carthage must be destroyed\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Yet, other measures to degrade Russia\u2019s capabilities are being considered, including a ban on its diplomats being allowed to travel without restrictions around the Schengen free travel area. Proponents say that total freedom makes it harder to track intelligence officers who could be planning hostile acts far from the country that issued their visa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust like Cato the Elder kept repeating that Carthage must be destroyed, I will keep proposing to end the free movement of Russian diplomats in Schengen,\u201d Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsk\u00fd told POLITICO. \u201cIt is an unnecessary advantage we give to the Russian regime, and it is being abused to facilitate sabotage operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foreign ministers from across the bloc will meet at an informal summit later this week, where a discussion is scheduled with the EU&#8217;s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, on how to sharpen economic restrictions on Russia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maria Shagina, a sanctions expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said that while the Russian economy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":176602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8392,261,115,69,5755,5495,56351,2850,20154,3062,269,135,1802,50,270,100243,257,126,4995,50759,2175,273,67,32329,131,26141,275,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-176601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-banking","9":"tag-companies","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-drones","13":"tag-energy","14":"tag-fuels","15":"tag-hungary","16":"tag-imports","17":"tag-intelligence","18":"tag-kremlin","19":"tag-markets","20":"tag-military","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-oil","23":"tag-pipelines","24":"tag-russia","25":"tag-sanctions","26":"tag-security","27":"tag-slovakia","28":"tag-tariffs","29":"tag-ukraine","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-visas","32":"tag-war","33":"tag-war-economy","34":"tag-war-in-ukraine","35":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115094252830702650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}