United States President Donald Trump again emphasised that he had “solved” seven wars but accepted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had let him down amid the ongoing Ukraine war. He claimed that falling oil prices could pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw from the Ukraine conflict, and that he was willing to do more against Russia, but not if Europeans keep buying Russian oil.
“If the price of oil comes down, Putin is going to have no choice, he’s going to drop out of that war,” Trump said during his state visit to the UK on Thursday, expressing frustration over Europe’s continued reliance on Russian energy.
“I’m willing to do other things, but not when the people that I’m fighting for are buying oil from Russia. If the oil price comes down, very simply, Russia will settle,” he said.
As a sign of his resolve, he mentioned the sanctions on India to get them to stop buying oil from Russia: “I’m very close to India. I’m very close to the Prime Minister of India, I spoke to him the other day to wish him a Happy Birthday. We have a very good relationship and he put out a beautiful statement too. But I sanctioned them.”