Republican candidate Ramaswamy says will end sanctions to bring Russia back to global market

Republican candidate for the GOP 2024 presidential election, Vivek Ramaswamy, says if elected, he will end US sanctions on Moscow to bring Russia back to the global market, pledging to visit the Kremlin to negotiate terms to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

In an article published in The American Conservative on Monday, businessman Ramaswamy, 38, said that he wanted the return of Russia to the global market in an attempt to “elevate Russia as a strategic check on China’s designs in East Asia.”

He also signaled that he would significantly reduce the international involvement of the United States, saying, “We will be Uncle Sucker no more.”

Donald Trump's competitor in the next year’s presidential election further claimed that Washington “squandered” its opportunity in the wake of the Cold War to remain the world’s lone superpower, allowing Russia and China to work together to what he called threatening the US top spot.

Ramaswamy, who was born to Indian Hindu immigrant parents in Ohio, further said that, if elected, he would plan to visit Moscow in 2025 to negotiate terms in an attempt to put an end to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.

“The longer the war in Ukraine goes on, it becomes ever clearer that there is only one winner: China … I will go to Moscow in 2025. I will deliver peace in Ukraine under the only terms that should matter to us—terms that put American interests first,” he noted.

Ramaswamy also lashed out at the policy adopted by US President Joe Biden regarding his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping following the outbreak of war against the ex-Soviet republic.

“The Biden administration has foolishly tried to get Xi to dump Putin. In reality, we should get Putin to dump Xi,” Ramaswamy wrote.

Russia launched a war in Ukraine in February last year. Months after the beginning of the war, Russia added four Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson to the Russian Federation in a referendum in which the local population voted in favor of the move.

Ukraine and the West, however, have condemned the move as illegal land-grabbing.

Elsewhere in his article, Ramaswamy said that he would “accept Russian control of the occupied territories and pledge to block Ukraine’s candidacy for NATO in exchange for Russia exiting its military alliance with China.”

His foreign policy proposals have already triggered condemnation.  Fox News pundit and Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen denounced them on Monday as “criminally stupid,” and “utterly disqualifying.” 

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