Trump said Russia’s economy “stinks” and warned low oil prices will cripple Putin’s war effort

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President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Russia’s economy “stinks” and claimed that falling oil prices would crush Vladimir Putin’s war machine. “Putin will stop killing people if you get energy down another $10 a barrel. He’s going to have no choice because his economy stinks,” Trump said during a live interview on Squawk Box . He made it clear that he believes oil revenue is the backbone of Russia’s war in Ukraine, and if it dries up, the war ends. This is part of Trump’s long-running one-m...