Russia not on Trump's tariff list
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US media quotes the White House press secretary as saying this is because of sanctions on Moscow.

Summary

Russia was excluded from Trump’s sweeping tariff list due to existing U.S. sanctions that limit trade, White House officials claimed.

Despite lower trade volumes, countries like Syria were still included, prompting skepticism.

Trump has prioritized ending the war in Ukraine and threatened 50% tariffs on nations buying Russian oil. Russian state media framed the omission as sanctions-based, not favoritism, with some mocking Trump’s harsher stance on allies.

Ukraine, meanwhile, faces a 10% tariff despite the country’s strategic partnership with the U.S.

    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 day ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg

      Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass; September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 using New York’s state execution chamber in Sing Sing in Ossining,[1] New York

      America used to have standards.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Funny you bring up that couple, because the lack of standards has a through line here.

        A man named Roy Cohn was the prosecutor, and he wheeled and dealed to make sure that both Rosenbergs got the death penalty, even if the evidence was a bit weak, especially the evidence against Ethel. Cohn got witnesses to change their story so that he could push to kill Ethel.

        Cohn then went on to help Joseph McCarthy run the Red, and Lavender Scares.

        And then, later still, Roy Cohn would tutor Donald Trump in the art of personally attacking anyone who tried to enforce the law against him.

        The piece of shit finally died of HIV,

    • Flemmy@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 day ago

      And a whole nation’s gotta take it in the behind for this. Classic king of the hill stuff.