Trump Urges Turkiye To Halt Russian Oil Purchases, Hints At Lifting Sanctions

 Trump Urges Turkiye To Halt Russian Oil Purchases, Hints At Lifting Sanctions

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US President Donald Trump has urged Europe to halt imports of Russian oil and gas. After two hours of talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday, Trump expressed confidence that Ankara would comply with his request and suggested he might lift US sanctions on Turkiye.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced today that it was Turkiye’s sovereign decision whom to trade with, adding: “If certain types of trade in certain goods are deemed advantageous to the Turkish side, then the Turkish side will continue to do so.”

According to LSEG data and traders, Turkish imports of Russian oil fell in September to their lowest level since April. Turkiye, the second-largest importer of seaborne Russian Urals crude after India, bought 1.6 million tons in June, the highest since May 2024, but is expected to import about 1.2 million tons this month.

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As the disobedience continued, the US took the route of sanctioning the individual banks that did not comply in these countries, forcing them to have a sort of foot in both camps, one in the BRICs/Mir/CHIPs axis, another in the Western/SWIFT axis.

3/11/22 — Turkey Won’t Sanction Russia, Despite NATO Pressure

4/19/22 – Justices Rule Turkish Bank Must Face US Prosecution for Sanctions Violation

….While Turkey has been towing a middle line, like the Gulf states and India, they have also been teeter-tottering a bit between both axes, a bit like India.

During the general turbulent economic environment for the entire world economy, Turkey has been grappling with a rapidly depreciating currency, and a crumbling economy…

To return to the line of the US targeting Turkish banks and private entities of other countries who stayed connected to Mir, Reuters described in September of 2022 described how this specifically propelled India to integrate the Mir system. Blowback, blowback, blowback.

2/6/23 — US Sharpens Focus on Russia Sanctions Evasion, Warning Turkish Banks, Businesses

The US took the same route with other non-compliant countries, forcing countries to essentially have a foot in and out of both pools, economically impacting them negatively.

… the blowback of this was wreaking diplomatic and economic ties between the US and the countries we were attempting to impose sovereignty over.

March 2022 Flashback: US Hegemony Threatened As Saudis, UAE, India Ignore Threats of Sanctions, Turn to Russia/China [X]

… my last publication’s thesis that the US’ unilateral sanctions are expediting the fall of the dollar as a reserve currency, and critically damaging to not just the countries sanctioned by the US, but critically damaging to America itself as well.

Will threats of sanctions on the neutral gulf states and India, as we’ve already seen take place, be productive, or counter productive to America’s own security and stability?

Just as Biden threatened India with sanctions, and it seemed to only push India into Russia’s arms, threatening the gulf states with sanctions will likely do the same, encouraging them to strengthen ties with China and Russia…

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