Trump’s Flip-Flopping Putin Policy Flips Again With New Russia Sanctions

<script>!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);</script><script id="68f9badfe4b01e35ba1753e0">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b","mediaId":"71198287-0436-4e4b-a6b0-83bcce8a922c"}).render("68f9badfe4b01e35ba1753e0");});</script><div class="content-list-component text"><p>President Donald Trump’s flip-flopping response to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine flipped yet again on Wednesday, with an announcement of new economic sanctions against Russia’s two biggest oil companies.</p><p>“Today is a very big day in terms of what we’re doing,” Trump told reporters at the start of an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte. “Look, these are tremendous sanctions. These are very big. They are against their two big oil companies.”</p><p>Wednesday’s developments come just five days after Trump called for an end to the war in Ukraine, with the existing battle lines becoming the new territorial lines — which would effectively reward Putin for starting a brutal war of aggression. And that statement came just two weeks after Trump proposed letting Ukraine use US-made Tomahawk cruise missiles against Russia. He nixed that idea last week.</p><p>Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he would accept a ceasefire along current battle lines if they are the star