President Donald Trump is promoting his new economic strategy as the silver bullet for the Ukraine war, expressing absolute confidence that his plan is the key to a swift and successful end game. He believes a two-pronged economic assault on Russia and its supporters will achieve what months of fighting have not.
The President’s “silver bullet” solution was detailed on his social media site. It requires two main actions: a complete and total oil embargo on Russia by all NATO countries, and a collective imposition of crippling 50% to 100% tariffs on China by the same alliance.
He presented this plan not as one option among many, but as the definitive one. “If NATO does as I say, the war will end quickly, and all of those lives will be saved!” he wrote, framing his strategy as the only path to peace and the moral high ground. He dismissed other efforts as a waste of “time, energy, and money.”
This supreme confidence in an economic solution reflects Trump’s broader worldview, where financial leverage and trade are the most powerful tools in international relations. He is betting his diplomatic capital on the idea that this economic end game will succeed where all other strategies have failed.