Mexico to impose retaliatory tariffs on US following China and Canada as trade war heats up

The gold cards arent for Putin, they’re for all of the other Russian oligarchs that have destroyed Russia and need a new place to set up shop.

he would prefer it to stay reasonably rich

I think he'd much rather eliminate one of the top economies and make more room for the Russian economy to recover. I'd imagine the simplified version of the plan goes something like this:

1. Make the US destroy all its current trade relationships
2. In manufactured desperation, the US drops sanctions and tries to lean on Russia as a new partner
3. ?????
4. Profit