Trumps will wage financial war on Russia in bid to end Ukraine conflict

WASHINGTON — President Trump will wage a financial war on Russia to force an end to its invasion of Ukraine — after years of former President Joe Biden funding Kyiv’s military has failed to halt the bloody conflict, the commander-in-chief’s Ukraine envoy said.“It’s not going to end kinetically.What I mean by that is it’s not going to end by killing each other,” Gen.

Keith Kellogg told Fox News on Friday.“This is going to end … not only [with] diplomacy, but economics as well,” he added.

“He’s talking about stopping the killing and stopping the carnage.”That’s because Russia, which has suffered more than 800,000 casualties among its ranks over its nearly three-year-long full-scale invasion, care little about the human sacrifices of the conflict, Kellogg said.“When you look at Putin, you can’t just say, ‘Well, stop the killing,’ because candidly, that’s not their mentality.That’s not how they do things,” he said.

“So you have to approach a different way, and the president fits into that.”One way that Trump could target Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wallet is by going after oil prices, which the president teased during remarks to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.“I’m also going to ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down the cost of oil.You got to bring it down, which frankly, I’m surprised they didn’t do before the election,” Trump told the global elites gathered at the yearly meeting.“If the price came down, the Russia-Ukraine war would end immediately.

Right now, the price is high enough that that war will continue.You’ve got to bring down the oil price.

You’re going to end that war.”Kellogg explained that the price of oil is roughly $70 per barrel, meaning huge cash flows for Moscow to continue funding its unjust war on Ukraine.Eliminating that surplus would constrain Putin, helping push him toward the negotiation table.“Russia is getting billions of dollars of...