{"id":1930,"date":"2025-07-15T03:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2025-07-15T03:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:02:36","slug":"trump-announces-new-weapons-to-ukraine-via-nato-threatens-secondary-tariffs-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=1930","title":{"rendered":"Trump Announces New Weapons to Ukraine via NATO, Threatens Secondary Tariffs Against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Welcome back to World Brief, where we\u2019re looking at the\u00a0<strong>United States<\/strong> threatening secondary tariffs against\u00a0<strong>Russia<\/strong>\u2019s trade partners, the\u00a0<strong>European Union<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0response to Trump\u2019s tariffs, and the death of <strong>Nigeria<\/strong>\u2019s former leader.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Secondary Tariffs <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/07\/14\/us\/trump-news\/92d3014f-b34b-5480-b792-3b2b36eced94?smid=url-share\">announced<\/a> that the United States would send additional weapons and military equipment to Ukraine via NATO and threatened to impose \u201cvery severe\u201d tariffs on Russia\u2019s trade partners if the Kremlin does not agree to a peace deal with Kyiv within 50 days.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Welcome back to World Brief, where we\u2019re looking at the\u00a0<strong>United States<\/strong> threatening secondary tariffs against\u00a0<strong>Russia<\/strong>\u2019s trade partners, the\u00a0<strong>European Union<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0response to Trump\u2019s tariffs, and the death of <strong>Nigeria<\/strong>\u2019s former leader.<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-unit-signup--shortcode-fallback\">\n<h2 class=\"dek-heading\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/category\/world-brief\/\">Sign up<\/a>  to receive World Brief in your inbox every weekday.            <\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<form data-shortcode-newsletter=\"world_brief\" class=\"newsletter-unit-signup newsletter-unit-signup--shortcode email-capture--step-1 newsletter-unit-signup--shortcode-world_brief\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-world_brief newsletter-shortcode-world_brief\">\n<div class=\"show-on-email-capture--signed-up hide-from-newsletter-subscriber newsletter-unit-signup--shortcode--container\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-unit newsletter-row\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-world_brief\">\n<h2 class=\"dek-heading\">Sign up to receive World Brief in your inbox every weekday.<\/h2>\n<p>\n                        <button class=\"button\">Sign Up<\/button>\n                    <\/p>\n<div class=\"grid--flex newsletter-world_brief newsletter-signup-container\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"World Brief sign up form\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"buttons\">\n<div class=\"hide-from-newsletter-subscriber privacy-policy-container\">\n<div class=\"privacy-policy-acknowledge\">\n<p><small>By submitting your email, you agree to the <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/termsofuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Use<\/a> and to receive email correspondence from us. 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Aimed at countries whose trade with Moscow finances Russia\u2019s war machine, the move could potentially target India and China, the two <a href=\"https:\/\/energyandcleanair.org\/june-2025-monthly-analysis-of-russian-fossil-fuel-exports-and-sanctions\/\">main buyers<\/a> of Russian oil.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, legislation is making its way through the U.S. Congress that would enable Trump to apply even higher tariffs on Russia\u2019s trade partners. The Sanctioning Russia Act, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/2548\">drafted<\/a> by Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham, has 80-plus co-sponsors. If passed, it would give the president the authority to levy tariffs up to 500 percent on customers of Russian crude oil. However, experts are skeptical that Trump would raise tariffs to that degree on either China or India.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which was first introduced in April and has gained steam in recent weeks, could be a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/13\/politics\/russia-sanctions-bill-trump-senators-bipartisan\">sledgehammer<\/a>\u201d available to Trump to end the war, Graham said, though Trump suggested on Monday that he may already have the power to take such action without the legislation. \u201cI\u2019m not sure we need it,\u201d Trump said of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that the U.S. president has threatened the use of secondary tariffs against Washington\u2019s adversaries. In March, the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/07\/14\/trump-trade-russia-ukraine.html\">announced<\/a> that it would impose a 25 percent tariff on countries that import Venezuelan oil, and in May, Trump declared that any country that buys petrochemicals from Iran would be barred from doing business with the United States.<\/p>\n<p>As part of his announcement on Monday, Trump also said that Washington would send U.S.-made weapons \u201cworth billions of dollars\u201d to Ukraine, which would be financed by NATO allies. Though details of which weapons will be provided remain unclear, Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/trump-send-patriot-missiles-ukraine-us-envoy-visits-kyiv-2025-07-14\/\">pledged<\/a> to send Patriot missile defense systems to Kyiv. Trump suggested that under the new arrangement, European NATO allies could immediately send Ukraine critical U.S. weapons and equipment, including Patriot missile systems, out of their own stocks and then replenish those stocks by purchasing replacements from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>During his Monday meeting with Rutte, who will help oversee the NATO effort, Trump emphasized that he was \u201cvery unhappy\u201d and \u201cdisappointed\u201d with Russia, which has continued to launch barrages of missiles and drones into Ukraine over the past few weeks. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/russia-launches-136-drones-ukraine-ahead-expected-trump\/story?id=123729140\">launched<\/a> at least four missiles and 136 drones into Ukraine on Sunday night and into Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has expressed increasing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent weeks. Putin \u201ctalks nice, and then he bombs everybody in the evening,\u201d Trump told reporters on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to increase pressure on Russia for the sake of peace and to save lives,\u201d Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1944847520858767508\">wrote<\/a> on social media, thanking NATO\u2019s Rutte. Zelensky also met with U.S. special envoy Keith Kellogg in Kyiv on Monday and expressed gratitude to Trump for his support to Ukraine in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1944716532883341774\">separate<\/a> social media post.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h3><strong>Today\u2019s Most Read<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<hr\/>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>The World This Week<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, July 15:<\/strong> Rutte continues his two-day visit to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Waltz, a former U.S. national security advisor, is set to attend his Senate confirmation hearing for the role of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, July 17: <\/strong>G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors meet in Cape Town, South Africa.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h3><strong>What We\u2019re Following<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Delaying retaliation. <\/strong>Over the weekend, Trump threatened to hit the European Union and Mexico, key U.S. trading partners, with 30 percent tariffs starting Aug. 1 unless a deal is made before then. The announcement followed a series of similar threats that Trump made last week to more than a dozen countries, including Japan, South Korea, and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the EU has decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cdez5w61g5lo\">delay<\/a> planned retaliatory tariffs against the United States that were due to go into effect on June 15. Those measures, targeting $24.5 billion worth of U.S. goods, were intended to counter Trump\u2019s initial import taxes on steel and aluminum. However, Brussels said it will hold off on the tariffs in order to try to reach a trade deal with Washington by the new Aug. 1 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have always been very clear that we prefer a negotiated solution,\u201d European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters. \u201cThis remains the case, and we will use the time that we have now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even though the EU is backing down for now, Trump\u2019s latest move has drawn strong criticism from within the 27-member bloc. Bernd Lange, the head of the European Parliament\u2019s trade committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cyvj13d9ylpo\">called<\/a> Washington\u2019s announcement a \u201cslap in the face for negotiations.\u201d Meanwhile, in a social media post, French President Emmanuel Macron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/13\/macron-calls-on-eu-to-defend-european-interests-resolutely-from-trump-tariffs\">urged<\/a> the European Commission to \u201cassert the union\u2019s determination to defend European interests resolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boeing under scrutiny. <\/strong>India\u2019s civil aviation authority on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-14\/india-orders-fuel-switch-inspection-on-boeing-jets-after-report\">ordered<\/a> an inspection of fuel switches on all Boeing 737 and 787 aircraft operating in the country. The announcement came after India\u2019s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/11\/world\/asia\/air-india-crash-report.html\">released<\/a> a preliminary assessment report on the Air India crash that killed 260 people onboard the plane and more on the ground in Ahmedabad last month.<\/p>\n<p>The report, released on Saturday, revealed that the Air India flight\u2019s fuel-supply switches were turned off immediately after the plane took off, causing the abrupt cut off of fuel to both engines of the plane and leading to the deadly crash less than a minute later. The report did not find any mechanical or maintenance issues with the aircraft or engines, though, and it remains unclear whether the fuel-supply switch was flipped manually or by accident.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the renewed scrutiny on fuel control switches, South Korea has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/south-korea-preparing-order-airlines-check-fuel-switches-boeing-jets-2025-07-14\/\">announced<\/a> that it will order all Boeing-operated aircraft in the country to examine their fuel switches. Similarly, Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/etihad-asks-pilots-to-exercise-caution-with-fuel-control-switches-on-boeing-787s-orders-their-inspection\/article69809538.ece\">directed<\/a> its pilots to \u201cexercise caution\u201d while operating the switches on Boeing 787 aircraft. Even still, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing have privately said that the fuel switch locks on Boeing aircrafts are safe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/amid-air-india-probe-us-faa-boeing-notify-fuel-switch-locks-are-safe-document-2025-07-13\/\">according<\/a> to a document seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A divisive legacy. <\/strong>Former Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/obituaries\/2025\/07\/13\/muhammadu-buhari-nigeria-dead\/\">died<\/a> on Sunday at age 82 at a hospital in London, his spokesperson announced. In a social media post, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/officialABAT\/status\/1944477052067020890\">declared<\/a> a period of national mourning and praised Buhari\u2019s \u201cdeep commitment to the unity and progress\u201d of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari, who ruled the country as a military leader from late 1983 to 1985 and later as a democratically elected president from 2015 to 2023, leaves behind a divisive legacy. Though he campaigned on rooting out government corruption, Buhari struggled to tackle rising poverty and insecurity in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo single person can be justly expected to fix all of a country\u2019s problems or even most of them,\u201d Ebenezer Obadare, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2025\/07\/14\/muhammadu-buhari-death-obituary-nigeria\/\">wrote<\/a> in <em>Foreign Policy<\/em>. \u201cBut that Buhari failed on almost every front\u2014despite the time and goodwill at his disposal\u2014makes his failure even more perplexing.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h3><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Odds and Ends<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Wimbledon has a new star. Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/sport\/live-news\/wimbledon-final-mens-25-07-13-spt\">defeated<\/a> his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/45732133\/wimbledon-2025-title-men-title-carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner-rivalry\">rival<\/a> and two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz on Sunday, securing Sinner\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6490930\/2025\/07\/13\/sinner-alcaraz-wimbledon-final-result-analysis\/\">first Wimbledon title<\/a> and making him the famed tennis tournament\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/sport\/live-news\/wimbledon-final-mens-25-07-13-spt\">men\u2019s singles winner<\/a>. After the match, Sinner thanked Alcaraz for \u201canother great fight\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMFtUC4N5pE\/\">post on Instagram<\/a> and offered his respect. \u201cThese are the battles we live for,\u201d he said in the post. \u201cUntil next time.\u201d \u2014 <em>Christina Lu <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2025\/07\/14\/trump-ukraine-russia-weapons-patriot-secondary-tariffs-nato-rutte\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to World Brief, where we\u2019re looking at the\u00a0United States threatening secondary tariffs against\u00a0Russia\u2019s trade partners, the\u00a0European Union\u2019s\u00a0response to Trump\u2019s tariffs, and the death of Nigeria\u2019s former leader. \u00a0Secondary Tariffs \u00a0 U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte at the White House on Monday, announced that the United States would send [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politcical-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}