La Russia si gongola per le tariffe di Trump: “Il nostro paese diventerà una grande superpotenza e Trump aiuterà con questo”

Russia sees some benefit from the tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed on almost all countries except it.

Economist Aleksei Zubets estimated in Russian media that one of the most important benefits for Russia is that Western countries will “forget” about Ukraine while focusing on the trade war started by the United States.

According to Zubets, the war in Ukraine ceased to be the center of attention last Wednesday, when Trump announced new tariffs on almost all countries.

For example, the United States imposed a 20 percent import tariff on the European Union.

“Everyone is interested in US tariffs and their consequences for Europe, Asia and the whole world. Ukraine is no longer of interest to anyone, and that’s good,” Zubets commented to Gazeta.ru .

Only Russia, Belarus, North Korea and Cuba were exempt from US tariffs, the first three of which are involved in the war of aggression in Ukraine.

The United States has already imposed several sanctions on Russia, which has restricted Russian trade with the United States.

According to Russian media reports , trade between the United States and Russia was $3.5 billion last year, the lowest figure since 1992.

The corresponding figure before Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2021 was $35 billion.

Oleg Savchenko , deputy chairman of the State Duma’s Financial Markets Committee and Duma representative, is gloating over the tariffs imposed by Trump.

He said Russia knows what awaits countries that are subject to tariffs.

“Russia has experienced all these difficulties because of sanctions. We are ready for any challenges, so we can sit with popcorn and watch how this ends,” Savchenko told Gazeta.ru.

However, Savchenko does not believe that the Russian economy will benefit in any way from avoiding tariffs.

Russian experts have different views on whether the Russian economy benefits from avoiding customs duties or not.

Russia, isolated by various sanctions, is not completely disconnected from the global economy, so Trump’s tariffs will ultimately affect it as well.

Investment analyst Aleksandr Razuyev considers Russia’s exclusion from tariffs above all as a sign of friendship.

“It is kind to both our country and personally to President Vladimir Putin .”

He has written a comment on the impact of Trump’s tariffs on Russia on the Finam.ru market website.

Razujev writes that customs duties raise the prices of all goods in the world, which also makes illegal imports to Russia more expensive.

He believes that Trump’s tariffs will also have a negative impact on the Russian economy, even though it avoided tariffs, unlike 185 other countries.

Razuyev predicts that the trade war will lead to a global recession and lower oil prices, which will be detrimental to the Russian economy.

However, he looks ahead.

“We are living in very interesting times. I believe that our country will play all its trump cards and become a great superpower. And Trump will help with that, but it will not happen until all the dead and wounded as a result of his policies are removed.”

Economist Mikhail Belyaev, in turn, estimated for the Regnum news website that US tariffs are forcing European countries to turn towards Russia.

The Chinese market is so competitive that, according to Belyaev, Europeans will not survive unless they reorient their trade to the East.

Hate when reality jumps the shark.

I mean sure but, huh, about the maths : Russia is 2/3 of Italy’s GDP with all the petrol and gaz in the world and 144m people (-the ones dead in Ukraine).

I’m all in to get surprised but this is a moonshot.

Enjoy your low oil prices.

Tank stock market, wealthy Russians buy his “gold card” citizenship, they buy up the cheap stock and/or buy out the companies that have gone bankrupt.

One day they will all have paved roads, running water and a sewer system.

Love it when russia says something i agree with. They do so much propaganda and stuff but not this time

I wish the EU would just dogpile Russia from all sides and crush that twerp once and for all. Maybe Trump’s shittery will be the impetus they need.

The second part is true anyway.

Dude, when oil prices tumble, Russia will burn brighter than the Hindenburg. And Trump is doing just that.

It’s a contest between who is more delusional: Trump and his coterie or Putin and his coterie.

Russia could have been an economic superpower. They have a crazy amount of resources, enough space with fertile soil and all forms of energy. But until today they have the GDP of Spain. Russias system is way too corrupt and blinded by greed to unfold it’s potential. Until they continue like this they will never be a superpower.

There’s never been any other reason for tariffs than ruzz payback for the sanctions…that’s it, always has been

So it’s going to be the US and Russia against the rest of the world huh? I think this hasn’t been thought through very much

Tell me again how Trump isn’t a Russian asset?

Lol average Russian doesnt understand the level of tariffs they are on at the moment… The second that war stops, country goes into chaos and economy hits rock bottom. On life support now working for war industry.

[russian markets slump after trump tariffs oil price collapse](https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/05/russian-markets-reel-from-trump-tariffs-oil-price-collapse-a88618)

***The Moscow Exchange was down 8.5% at the end of trading on Friday, with $23.7 billion in market capitalization wiped out in two days.***

My Brother in Christ, the Russian economy is smaller than that of Italy.

Russia doesn’t have the kind of economy to become a superpower even if Trump decided to literally pay them to do business with the US.

Without nukes they would be barely more relavant than Bangladesh.

POTUS =Russian agent.

Precisely. Frankly, I’m impressed with how easily Russia destroyed America.