LOADING ERROR LOADINGWASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s flip-flopping response to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine flipped yet again Wednesday, with an announcement of new economic sanctions against Russia’s two biggest oil companies. And that statement came just two weeks after Trump proposed letting Ukraine use U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missiles against Russia. Putin has insisted that Russia should get territory it has been unable to seize despite 44 months of trying. It’s unclear what the new sanctions on Russia can accomplish that previous rounds of sanctions have not. “They’re massive sanctions, sanctions on oil, the two biggest oil companies, among the biggest in the world,” Trump boasted Wednesday.

Source: Huffington Post October 23, 2025 10:52 UTC