A Russian-American agreement on diesel fuel supplies could become a promising precedent for lifting or suspending sanctions if the United States has an economic and political interest in doing so, Alexander Shokhin said. He is the Russian presidential commissioner for the protection of entrepreneurs’ rights and head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
In his first interview after being appointed business ombudsman, Shokhin compared the agreement with an old Soviet-era ditty about two friends working together on a diesel engine. He said he would not want the deal to end in the same way, but described the case as highly promising.
Shokhin said the arrangement demonstrated that sanctions could be lifted or suspended when there was a genuine economic or political interest, including a domestic political interest on the American side.
He cited Germany as an example. Shokhin said the Alternative for Germany party was gaining votes not only because of its opposition to an excessively lenient migration policy. He also pointed to rising tariffs and prices, a weakening industrial sector and the complete shutdown of some industries.
According to Shokhin, the automotive industry in European Union countries is currently surviving only because companies have begun producing weapons. He suggested that this may also help explain what he described as an aggressive attitude toward Russia over Ukraine.
He expressed hope that President Donald Trump would manage to retain at least the Senate, including by preventing further increases in diesel prices in the United States. Shokhin stressed that logistics and transport flows in the country are primarily road-based, while heavy trucks rely on diesel fuel.
He concluded that the case was a useful example and said the pragmatism of Trump and the US administration could prove contagious.
Source: tass.com
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