President Donald Trump has demanded US allies stop buying Russian oil before he moves on punishing Moscow, and told them to hit China with tariffs.

But Trump’s asks don’t really seem feasible and the EU is quick to point out it has already hammered the Kremlin with sanctions.

Meanwhile, diplomats fear it could be a ploy by the US leader to yet again stall taking a tough stance against Russia himself.

– Stopping oil purchases? –

In a Truth Social post over the weekend, Trump said he’d slap “major sanctions” on Moscow if all NATO countries stopped buying Russian oil.

The 27-nation EU has already banned the vast majority of imports of Russian oil in the wake of the Kremlin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine — slashing the share of oil it imports from Russia from 29 percent in early 2021 to two p

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