Could American sanctions bring an end to the war in Ukraine?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
A bipartisan bill in the Senate with more than 80 cosponsors would impose new sanctions on Russia by targeting its ability to sell energy to other nations. While such sanctions are hardly a novel concept, the difference with the proposed legislation is that America would also impose a 500 percent tariff on any country that buys Russian energy. While the proposed bill would seem like a fairly straightforward path to increasing pressure on Russia, the reality is more complex. And therein lies an important reminder for each of us today.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. It's Friday, May the 30th, 2025. Welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's edition written by Denison Forum's senior editor for theology, Dr. Ryan Denison. |
| 0:19.4 | In recent days, President Trump has seemed to grow increasingly incensed with Russian President |
| 0:25.6 | Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:26.9 | In a series of posts on truth social, Trump called Putin crazy and warned that he was |
| 0:32.9 | playing with fire before Trump claimed that he was essentially the only person standing between Russia |
| 0:39.1 | and a host of, quote, really bad things. |
| 0:42.3 | In response, former Russian president, Dmitri Medvedov, who stood in as surrogate for Putin |
| 0:48.3 | during the four years the latter was technically unable to be president, responded by posting |
| 0:53.7 | on X, quote, I only know of one |
| 0:56.1 | really bad thing, World War III. I hope Trump understands this, end quote. To this point, |
| 1:02.9 | Trump has primarily attempted to coax Putin to the negotiating table and end his invasion of |
| 1:08.6 | Russia by offering a series of rewards, a place back with the G8, |
| 1:13.5 | resource deals, and lifting sanctions to name a few. As Connor and Mike had discussed on this |
| 1:19.7 | week's culture brief, it hasn't worked. The truth is that Putin currently has little reason to |
| 1:25.9 | pursue peace. He is winning the war, cares relatively little about the loss of life, |
| 1:31.3 | and stands to gain by continuing to drag the conflict out. |
| 1:35.6 | And there is little Ukraine can do, even with additional armaments, to change that reality. |
| 1:41.5 | If Putin is going to seriously entertain peace, then additional pressure |
| 1:46.2 | will have to come from Europe and the United States. Europe took a step in that direction with |
| 1:51.4 | additional sanctions last week, though few think they will be sufficient to force Russia to the table. |
| 1:57.2 | For that to happen, most agree that President Trump will need to apply pressure of his own as well. |
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