President Donald Trump has signed an executive order putting on hold a sweeping sanctions package targeting the Russian economy, telling Congress the pause is in the national interest. The move comes amid a deepening rift with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and follows Trump’s own approval of the legislation last month.
Over here we’re choosing between heating and eating while a sanctions package gets put on ice “in the national interest”. Whose nation? Signed last month, waived this week. Bold. Decisive. Utterly predictable. In Britain we call that a U-turn; in Washington it’s statecraft. Our bills don’t get a pause. Funny, in the way a funeral is.