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.

“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.”

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........

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