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You’re not moving 1 mm in any direction that acknowledges any other argument, so there’s very little point.Not at all. If you have an idea for some additional steps that should be taken against Russia that you think we should do, I'm all ears. I would
welcome doing something more, if it would be effective in more quickly pushing Putin out. Secondary sanctions, though, are
counterproductive. They don't work, and they actually make things worse. If there's an actual "other argument" that you're making, other than "we should do something else" without either saying what the something else is or how it would be better than what we're doing, I would love to hear that other argument.
Instead, at the first sign of resistance you’re allowing India and China to fund Putin’s war machine. And playing into China’s hands while doing it."Allowing"? If we had the ability to stop India from buying oil from Putin, I would advocate doing that. But we don't. Secondary sanctions won't get India to stop buying Russian oil, and indeed they
haven't done so. To the contrary - they've pushed India further into committing to the BRIC economic bloc, strengthening economic and strategic ties with Russia and China.
Do you really think that India is going to “embrace” Putin? Seriously?Yes - because they
already have more closely embraced Putin. Modi, Putin and Xi were
literally all holding hands to show their mutual cooperation and resolve against the U.S.' change of economic policy:
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/01/trump-modi-xi-put...This is the issue you thought was most important, Dope. Constraining China. Yet Trump has done more than any President in recent memory to alienate India and encourage them to foster closer cooperation and interaction with China.
