© EPA-EFE/WILL OLIVER According to Bessent, European support is needed.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant said that Washington is ready to increase pressure on Russia, but this requires European support, The New York Times reporter Alan Rapoport writes, citing NBC.
“We are ready to increase pressure on Russia, but we need our European partners to follow suit,” Bessent said.
According to him, further secondary sanctions and tariffs on countries that buy oil from Russia will lead to a “complete collapse” of the Russian economy and force Putin to sit at the negotiating table.
Trump has previously been reported to be increasingly pessimistic about the chances of a quick resolution to the war between Russia and Ukraine or a face-to-face meeting between the leaders of the two warring countries. At the same time, on September 4, he took part in a conference call with President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders, during which he stressed that “Europe must stop buying Russian oil, which is financing the war.”
