The Boston Globe on the implications of new US sanctions against Russia:

Like the one-sided bromance it always was, the Trump-Putin relationship is officially on the rocks – for now at least – with the US president declaring the first sanctions of his administration on Russia’s two largest oil companies.

It’s a new and important milestone in the nearly four-year-old war of aggression launched by Russia against Ukraine.

How effective those sanctions on Russia’s two major oil companies will be largely depends on US follow-through, including the possibility of secondary sanctions long threatened by President Trump against countries continuing to do business with Russia, thus funding its war machine.

The Treasury Department imposed sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil and their nearly thre

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