Asked why Russia was not on the list, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News that the United States did not trade with Russia and Belarus and that they were under sanctions.

he-admit-it

The political discourse in mainstream US is just two terrible parties trying to outdo each other on being really dumb, all while they both agree on the most horrific and deranged things.

[–] CarmineCatboy2@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

To be fair that's unironically consistent with the way they applied the tariffs. And also a funny way to stump libs when they say the president is a KGB agent. Its all so dumb that you can totally say 'nah we don't have to do tariffs because the formula applies to countries we trade with'.

[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

It is technically untrue, US does ~$3bn in trade with Russia every year, still. That number is down ~90% from some years back, presumably they don't want to apply tariffs because they really kinda need that last 10% of stuff.