While Trump has not donated a single weapon to Ukraine for 9 months, and instead wants to restart trade with Putin, EU's security vice president Kaja Kallas says, the EU will now hit Putin with a 19th sanctions package and tighten the noose on Putin's shadow fleet.

Someone please tell MAGA voters that not electing clowns for leaders really works.

@randahl The fact that the EU starts a 19th sanctions package makes me wonder if the previous 18 packages maybe didn’t hit too hard?
@benjaminhick that is incorrect. The first 18 packages are the very reason the Russian economy is in tatters. Remember, we used to buy all our oil from Putin.

@randahl @benjaminhick

That we still buy any oil or gas from them shows (to me) how weak our leadership has been. Just because the US leadership is wrong doesn't make ours a particularly good one.

@randahl @benjaminhick Sure, but if we had done things correctly, we shouldn’t even have anything more to sanction at this stage. Better late than never, but it shows the weakness of the EU.

@randahl

The trade that may go unseen is beautiful Russian women.