50 Senators from both parties line up behind a bill that would ‘punish’ Russia for not agreeing to peace deal with Ukraine

25 Republican neocons and 25 Democrat neolibs join hands to sponsor bill that would impose whopping 500 percent tariff on any country purchasing Russian oil, gas or uranium. WWIII hangs in the balance

Fully half of the U.S. Senate — 25 Republicans and 25 Democrats — joined together on Tuesday, April 1, in a rare show of bipartisanship.

What brought them together? They are eager to further poke the bear, the nation of Russia, the owner of the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.

They introduced a bill proposing astronomical sanctions on Russia if it refuses to participate in further negotiations aiming for a 30-day ceasefire in its war with Ukraine. Russian leaders say such a deal is unacceptable because it would give Ukraine time to reorganize and rearm its military right when it’s on the brink of total defeat. No sane leader of any country in Russia’s position would agree to such a deal as the one being offered by Trump and Washington.

The bill’s lead sponsors are the notorious Republican neocon warmonger Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and neoliberal Democrat warmonger Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. They say their bill would impose primary and secondary sanctions against Russia and any entities supporting “Russian aggression” in Ukraine if Moscow does not engage in talks. The bill includes a whopping 500 percent tariff on any country purchasing Russian oil, gas or uranium, The Hill reported, citing the document.

The bill is a rare example of bipartisanship in the bitterly divided U.S. Congress, and comes as President Trump has appeared to be growing increasingly impatient with what he has suggested might be foot-dragging over a wider agreement to end the war.

Nothing like a little Russia hate to bring America’s bitter political rivals together.

The two senators said in a statement:

“The sanctions against Russia require tariffs on countries who purchase Russian oil, gas, uranium and other products. They are hard hitting for a reason. The dominating view in the United States Senate is that Russia is the aggressor, and that this horrific war and Putin’s aggression must end now and be deterred in the future.”

Clearly, these senators think we are stupid, that we aren’t aware of the sordid history of the United States’ involvement in Ukraine over the last 10 years.

They think we’re ignorant of the 2014 color revolution instigated by the CIA, MI6 and U.S. State Department. They overthrew Ukraine’s duly elected government, installed a Western puppet in Kiev, and used the bought-and-paid for government of “Ukraine” to antagonize Russia. They invited Ukraine into NATO, granted it security guarantees, built up the Ukrainian army to become the largest fighting force in Europe, arming it to the teeth and using it as a staging ground for sophisticated long-range missile batteries. All of this has been taking place right on Russia’s border. Russia was supposed to sit still and stay quiet about it. The moment Russia said “no more,” and sent its troops into Ukraine, it was cast as the “aggressor,” and we still see our warmongering Western politicians using that term today in their propaganda talking points.

I wonder what would happen if Russia carried out a 10-year plan of a similar nature to militarize Mexico with Russian weapons, Russian training, Russian biolabs and endless Russian funding of Mexico’s military. I wonder if Washington would become a little “aggressive” with Mexico.

The fact is, America and NATO are already at war with Russia, using Ukrainians as their mercenaries. It’s a proxy war but no less a war. How, then, does one side in the war, America, dictate the terms of a peace deal to the attacked country, when the attacked country is actually winning the war? They do so by calling the attacked country the “aggressor?” Maybe I’m wrong but I think Putin may be too smart to fall for that one.

Until our leaders start dealing with reality instead of fake narratives created by the military-industrial-intelligence complex and the corrupt mainstream media, they can never expect to be taken seriously as honest peace brokers, not in Ukraine or any other country.

And if they don’t stop poking the bear, this isn’t going to end well for Europe or America. At some point, you back the bear far enough into a corner and all the talk about Putin the “aggressor” becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When that happens, say goodbye to London, Paris, Washington and who knows how many other places Americans and Europeans call home.

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8 thoughts on “50 Senators from both parties line up behind a bill that would ‘punish’ Russia for not agreeing to peace deal with Ukraine”

  1. Leo – Russian leaders say such a deal is unacceptable because it would give Ukraine time to reorganize and rearm its military right when it’s on the brink of total defeat.

    All in a day’s work for the uniparty on behalf of the New World Order. Klaus Sdwab sends them his love.

    Latest moves in this game of chess:

    US envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg to discuss ways to peacefully resolve the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The meeting, which lasted over four hours, took place at a presidential library on Friday.

    – Money Control, Peace Talks, April 12, 2025

    After chairing a meeting of Ukraine’s Western backers in Brussels, British Defense Secretary John Healey said that new pledges of military aid totaled over 21 billion euros ($24 billion), “a record boost in military funding for Ukraine, and we are also surging that support to the frontline fight.”

    – U.S. News, European Countries Vow Billions in Military Support for Ukraine as US Envoy Meets Putin, April 11, 2025

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  2. What gets me is how low, how very low is the education level and/or the moral level of everyone in government today. There’s no diplomacy or anyone capable of it in our state department—our officials behave like adolescent fools compared to the diplomats of other nations. Almost every member of Congress is bribed or blackmailed by some big money donor group or foreign power, so here is half of Congress proposing endless war in Ukraine. There’s no appreciation for the fact that Russia is within a few months of defeating Ukraine on the battlefield, so it can’t be the US—the backers of the losers—to force our terms. There’s no appreciation for the fact that the US no longer can produce our own armaments in any great numbers or quality, or field a truly modern army of any real size, compared to both Russia and China, the nations that these Senators are trying to war against. Nobody seems capable of facing facts.

    The military-industrial complex must be desperate for profits that it has stampeded so many senators to bellow threats against Putin when we “have no cards” to play in this at all. And this is just the Ukraine, a conflict no one in Congress voted for because they ceded their right to declare war to the executive branch.

    All but one Congressman wants war with Iran and that’s what’s coming next, whether Congress declares war on Iran or not. But almost all of them will fund it gladly, because all but one has been bought off by AIPAC to finance and arm endless, endless wars in the Middle East where we have no strategic interests. Our government serves foreign interests and multinational corporate powers—it’s never again going to be America First. So the rest of us can expect to see our states continue their slow decline into 3rd world economies—so different from how things looked 50-60 years ago—our “golden age”.

    Our bellicose president and his exceedingly bellicose cabinet inspires no confidence in me for the future. They talk like mobsters or schoolyard bullies. And too many Americans think this nasty behavior makes us strong. It only shows how stupid and bovine we became as a nation. I feel sorry for the younger generations who have no memory of how things once were and the hopes we once had, and the civilized way we once behaved and conducted business, and the higher plane on which we used to talk, compared to now. We’re in for a very rough ride ahead.

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  3. Even the New York Times has published a piece on “The Secret History of America’s Involvement in the Ukraine War,” years after parroting the same old lines that these senators are repeating. For 25 years, Putin’s biggest interaction with the West, especially Europe, has been to sell them affordable energy. There has been no invasion of the Baltics or Eastern Europe or anything else, save for his having had enough of the effort to push NATO to the Russian border.

    The Times piece is eye-opening for the political machinations that led to the current state as well as unintentionally exposing the paper’s own complicity in shaping the narrative of “Putin bad, Zelensky is Ukraine’s Washington.”

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  4. This all just wears me out. Politicians are a scourge. They need to fight in the front lines and live by their own policies. Let’s get Putin and Zelenksky in a boxing match to settle this. No more soldiers dying for their vanity and arrogance. Let them embarrass themselves trying to punch each others lights out.

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