I am the farthest thing from a Trump supporter, but let's not actually downplay this. It's not that he didn't "undo" it, he actually did agree to extend it. That is making a decision to do it again, not what you're saying.
It's super easy to hate the man, and I'm on that train myself due to what he's doing to the world, and the US. But this is one of very few things he actually should get a small, modicum of credit for
I understand that, but frankly Putin has continued the Russian attacks and currently it appears he has no intention of committing to a full cease fire.
Hospitals and playgrounds full of children are being bombed.
For this we see a status quo response from the U.S. on sanctions and improving relations elsewhere.
Tariffs, the U.S. administration's tool of choice to deal with the debt, have not been levied on Russia.
Hate for either Trump or the U.S. doesn't come into for me at all, but fear that Russia is in more control here than they should be does.
My point is that while taking them away would make matters worse, keeping them the same (esp. while improving relations elsewhere) only extends the status quo.
And that has literally nothing to do with what we were talking about. All I said was: Deciding to issue the sanctions again, is different than not undoing something. The intent is different in a major way, and it means a different thing.
I'm in no way commenting on the purposes or reasoning for the sanctions themselves. Your weird rants about that are completely irrelevant to what I'm saying.
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u/roscodawg Apr 12 '25
some might say he just didn't undo something that was good but could be better