President Donald Trump has a new plan

Donald Trump seems to have come up with a new strategy to force Vladimir Putin into ending the Ukraine war: going after Russia’s allies.

The American president has said he wants to discourage Moscow’s allies from buying its oil to disrupt Russia’s economy – a move, he claimed, would end the conflict.

But, rather than just hitting Russia with new sanctions – something he has repeatedly threatened to but is yet to actually do – Trump has decided to target its international customers instead.

He said on Tuesday: “India has not been a good trading partner... so we settled on 25% [tariffs] but I think I’m going to raise that very substantially over the next 24 hours, because they’re buying Russian oil, they’re fuelling the war machine, and if they’re going to do that, I’m not going to be happy.”

Speaking to CNBC’s Squawk........

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