US tariff threat leaves Russia less rattled than relieved

In the Oval Office on Monday, Donald Trump was talking tough, announcing new US arms shipments to Ukraine paid for by European governments, and threatening new tariffs which, if imposed, would hit Russia's war chest. On his return to the White House in January, Donald Trump had made ending Russia's war in Ukraine one of his foreign policy priorities. It argues that the war is the result of external threats to Russia's security: from Kyiv, Nato, 'the collective West.'