NATO chief warns India, China over..., says 'If you live in Beijing or Delhi...'
In a stern message to India and China, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte that countries such as Brazil, China and India could be hit very hard by secondary sanctions if they continued to do business with Russia.
While meeting with senators in the US Congress, Rutte said, 'My encouragement to these three countries, particularly is, if you live now in Beijing, or in Delhi, or you are the president of Brazil, you might want to take a look into this, because this might hit you very hard.'
What Trump said?
His comments came a the day after President Donald Trump announced new weapons for Ukraine and threatened 'biting' secondary tariffs of 100% on the buyers of Russian exports unless there is a peace deal in 50 days. He said that under the agreement with Trump, the U.S. would now 'massively' supply Ukraine with weapons 'not just air defense, also missiles, also ammunition paid for by the Europeans.'
Rutte added, 'So please make the phone call to Vladimir Putin and tell him that he has to get serious about peace talks, because otherwise this will slam back on Brazil, on India and on China in a massive way.'
Asked if long-range missiles for Ukraine were under discussion, Rutte said, 'It is both defensive and offensive. So there's all kinds of weapons, but we have not discussed in detail yesterday with the president. This is really being worked through now by the Pentagon, by the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, together with the Ukrainians.'
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