Translating an opinion by Igor Eidman in the Obozrevatel, May 24:
"Why Trump Threatened Sanctions Against Countries That Help Ukraine
Trump threatened to impose 50% tariffs on goods from the European Union. Global stock markets responded by falling. After a while, he will say that he changed his mind, and stock indices will rise again. And only he and his closest partners know when the market will go up and when it will go down. This makes it possible to earn billions on insider trading. Trump shakes the stock exchange like a drunken bear shakes an apple tree, and his greedy family and friends (he doesn’t even hide it) collect golden fruits from the earth.
The second likely reason for these threats is revenge against the Europeans for supporting Ukraine and sanctions against Putin's Russia against Trump's will. In this way, he can blackmail European leaders: if you do not follow the American policy of appeasing Putin, you will run into a sharp increase in customs tariffs.
The free world was waiting for the US to implement its own idea of tariff sanctions against states cooperating with Putin, and Trump actually rolled out these sanctions against countries helping Ukraine. Some were surprised, but I was not. The answer to the famous question: "Is this stupidity or treason?" - in the case of Trump becomes obvious."
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