We Had the Vaccine the Whole Time- A So Called Vaccine Awaiting a So Called Pandemic?

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This article from NYIntellingencer is dated December 7 2020. The author is reporting that the vaccines for Covid were ‘designed’ by January 13/20. Months before the WHO characterized, without declaring, Covid-19 as a pandemic. Predating cases being identified in many locations. So interesting to think about.

"WHO Never Declared Covid a "Pandemic"- Uncover Your Eyes-"
That's an older piece of mine.. The internet is so heavily censored... sadly

The author of this piece is clearly promoting the rush to vaccinate everyone. Regardless of the real world situation. And the repercussions from taking this course of action, long term. All of which are unknown. The author has peppered the article with lots of fear mongering and hyperbole, exaggerated statements or claims that shouldn’t be taken literally. Including death counts that are known to have been exaggerated or intentionally misleading in order that a certain perception is implanted in the minds of the masses. I’ve omitted that spurious information to just focus on the vaccine being accessible before the pandemic

Link from 2020- below

You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13.

In Massachusetts, the Moderna vaccine design took all of one weekend.

It was completed before China had even acknowledged that the disease could be transmitted from human to human, more than a week before the first confirmed coronavirus case in the United States. By the time the first American death was announced a month later, the vaccine had already been manufactured and shipped to the National Institutes of Health for the beginning of its Phase I clinical trial.

Operation Warp Speed” meant running clinical trials simultaneously rather than sequentially, manufacturing the vaccine at the same time, and authorizing the vaccine under “emergency use” in December based only on preliminary data that doesn’t track the long-term durability of protection or even measure the vaccine’s effect on transmission

Indeed, it would have been difficult in May to find a single credentialed epidemiologist, vaccine researcher, or public-health official recommending a rapid vaccine rollout

The treatment dilemmas facing physicians and patients in the early stages of a novel pandemic are, of course, not the same as the dilemma of rushing a new vaccine to a still-healthy population — we defer to the judgment of desperate patients, with physicians inclined to try to help them, but not to the desires of vaccine candidates, no matter how desperate. An unsafe vaccine, like the one for polio that killed ten and paralyzed 200 in 1955, could cause medical disaster and public-health backlash (looks like we have an unsafe vaccine)

An ineffective vaccine could also give false security to those receiving it, thereby helping spread the disease by providing population-scale license to irresponsible behavior

And we know we’ve got an ineffective vaccine.

• Yes, we knew back in 2021- the vaccine was ineffective!

And still the roll out continues on…

• And so it did- Many died from the vaccine. Many were permanently damaged- The more vaxxed you were the more likely you were to contract Covid-19

Overtly, Israel declines intervening in Ukraine to keep the peace with Russia

Former British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government rejected his direct personal request for military aid to Ukraine in the early stages of the war. This was done to avoid angering Moscow and jeopardizing its interests.

COVERTLY… it’s a different story

Secret support and the Ukrainian quid pro quo

Conversely, reports from the Geopolitics Prime platform indicate that Israel has been secretly providing Ukraine with military and intelligence support since 2022, despite its official declaration of neutrality. According to these sources, this support included Mossad lie-detection software with up to 90% accuracy and satellite imagery via NATO.

Israel also supplied Ukraine with Matador RGW-90 anti-tank missiles and addressed its shortfall in Patriot missile batteries.

Furthermore, Red Alert warning systems and strategic materials were transferred through intermediaries and with covert funding.

In addition, Ukraine shared its field defense expertise in countering drones with Israel. This cooperation has been confirmed by officials from both sides in numerous official statements.

Israel in way more involved with the destabilization campaign of Russia.. Of course!

Erbil: This is where the US has been holed up with PKK and associate Kurds for decades. Most people are blissfully unaware of how embedded the US is in that area- I’ve covered it previously, so it’s not a surprise to me

1-Iran: US infrastructure in Erbil destroyed

Iran’s military claimed on Saturday that nearly all US infrastructure in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, had been destroyed.

In remarks carried by the semi-official Fars News Agency, Army spokesperson Mohammad Akrami-Nia said a “massive portion” of American bases across the region had lost their operational capacity. He also asserted that Iranian Kurdish opposition groups based in Erbil could no longer conduct operations.

Erbil has faced repeated drone and missile attacks since fighting between Washington and Tehran recently resumed, targeting sites linked to US forces and interests as well as positions belonging to Iranian Kurdish opposition parties, which Tehran accuses of launching attacks against Iran from the Kurdistan Region. Last week, the US Central Command said a US soldier was killed and another wounded while destroying explosives recovered from an Iranian drone in the Kurdistan Region.

Erbil has faced repeated drone and missile attacks since fighting between Washington and Tehran recently resumed, targeting sites linked to US forces and interests as well as positions belonging to Iranian Kurdish opposition parties, which Tehran accuses of launching attacks against Iran from the Kurdistan Region. Last week, the US Central Command said a US soldier was killed and another wounded while destroying explosives recovered from an Iranian drone in the Kurdistan Region.

Clearly Iran is attempting to prevent the Usrael Kurds from invading Iran… we’ll see how successful this is going to be.

2-Iran War Widow Says ‘Nobody Has Reached Out’ To Explain Husband’s Removal From Death Toll

It seems to me the US is attempting to hide casualties.

Jamiah Gonzalez-Swinton gave a tearful interview after her late husband, Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, vanished from the Pentagon’s public casualty count.

3-IRGC claims heavy US losses across the region

It seems to me Iran has inflicted some major damage to the US assets in the region

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) inflicted extensive damage on US military assets across the Middle East between July 8 and July 22, the group’s spokesman Sardar Mohebi told the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.

In air defense and radar, the IRGC listed seven command-and-control centers, six Patriot air-defense radars, and more than a dozen additional radar and early-warning systems as destroyed. In logistics, Mohebi cited fuel tanks, weapons and parts depots, and maintenance centers for fighter jets and helicopters.

He also claimed strikes on operational infrastructure, including hangars for MQ-9 Reaper drones, HIMARS rocket-launch platforms, Patriot complexes, and missile-launch sites. In the air, fighter aircraft and helicopters were hit on the ground, along with reconnaissance and combat drones, aerial-refueling aircraft, and heavy helicopters.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) has not addressed the Iranian tally. In separate statements over the last weeks, CENTCOM said its own strikes on Iranian coastal targets targeted Iranian military command centers, drone storage facilities, communication networks, coastal surveillance sites, and maritime capabilities.

Full tally: IRGC via Tasnim

• Radar and air defense:
• -7 command-and-control centers
• -3 satellite communication systems
• -6 Patriot air-defense radars
• -3 air and maritime control/monitoring radars
• -8 detection and early-warning radar systems
• -7 air missile-defense radars
• -3 EPS radar systems
• -2 EPS 117 radars
• -5 long-range radars
• -2 air-defense radars
• -1 tactical radar complex
• Support and logistics:
• -6 fighter and helicopter maintenance centers
• -3 support and logistics centers
• -12 fuel tanks
• -17 depots for weapons support and vessel/aircraft parts
• -6 missile bunkers
• Operational infrastructure:
• -6 MQ-9 drone hangars
• -1 F-15 preparation shed
• -1 drone shed containing 8 crated (brand-new) drones
• -2 command centers
• -1 aircraft-carrier refueling platform
• -1 P-8 aircraft hangar
• -4 HIMARS missile platforms
• -5 fighter hangars
• -4 Patriot air-defense complexes
• -6 missile-launch platforms
• -1 fuel pumping station
• -2 signals communications centers
• -1 intelligence data center
• -1 AI center / data-processing center base described as belonging to Amazon
• -1 depot for a “shampad” (glossed in the source as a remotely operated vessel)
• -1 fuel jetty
• -4 fighter shelters
• -6 flight and parking ramps
• Air operations:
• -11 fighter aircraft and helicopters (on the ground)
• -17 reconnaissance and operational drones (8 crated)
• -1 F-15 fighter inside a shelter
• -1 P-8 aircraft
• -1 C-17 transport aircraft
• -8 refueling (tanker) aircraft
• -4 heavy helicopters
• -6 stored missiles

4-As Trump pauses Iran strikes, Israel said to believe he’ll soon be forced to escalate

He won’t be “forced”. Notice the manipulative language used? Trump war on Iran has always been a choice. So, he’ll choose to escalate, because it’s the plan.

After first day of calm in some 2 weeks, Jerusalem sources tell Hebrew media that diplomacy is sure to fail, leaving US president no choice but to order major attack

After the United States refrained from striking Iran overnight Friday-Saturday for the first day in two weeks, Hebrew media reported Saturday that Jerusalem had been prepared for a major escalation in the war over the weekend, which never came. Despite the pause, Israeli leaders still estimate that US President Donald Trump would soon be compelled to step up military action, the reports said.

After the quiet night in Iran, there were also no reports on Saturday of attacks by Iran on its Gulf neighbors, which have been taking place daily as well.

5-Qatar calls for implementation of U.S.–Iran memorandum of understanding

Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani stressed on Saturday the importance of implementing the memorandum of understanding signed between the United States and Iran during talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty.

Not going to happen. The US can’t be trusted.

6-Houthi Spokesman Meets Saudi Delegation in Oman as Regional Tensions Escalate

MUSCAT, Oman – A senior Houthi delegation led by spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam has held talks with Saudi officials in Oman, marking a rare diplomatic contact amid rapidly escalating tensions across the Middle East.

The meeting comes just days after the Houthis declared a naval blockade targeting Saudi shipping, raising fears of a wider regional conflict linked to the ongoing U.S.-Iran war.

According to Houthi sources, the talks focused on “advancing regional security and stability.” Neither Saudi Arabia nor Oman has disclosed details of the discussions or announced any agreements.

Oman, which has long served as a key mediator between Riyadh and the Houthis, is seeking to revive diplomatic efforts as hostilities intensify in the Red Sea and around the Strait of Hormuz.

For now, the Muscat meeting is best read as a pressure valve rather than a breakthrough. No agreement has been announced, no ceasefire declared, and the blockade threat remains on the table. But the very fact of the contact a Houthi spokesman and a Saudi delegation in the same city, under Omani auspices, in the middle of an escalation suggests that back-channel diplomacy is still functioning where public posturing has hardened.

AfricaNews

Iran said Monday it has received proposals from mediators as back-and-forth attacks with the United States continue. “Proposals have been put forward and conveyed to us by the mediators. We have received them, but please excuse me from going into their details,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said at a briefing.

He said the diplomatic apparatus had been active and that ideas from some mediators had reached Tehran. Baghaei dismissed U.S. statements about being open to diplomacy. “We have seen and tested their so-called readiness before,” he said.

“When the U.S. talks about diplomacy, it actually means dictation, intimidation, threats and sanctions.” He said Iran’s response would be to defend its dignity and national sovereignty as long as Washington sought to impose its demands. When asked about reports that the U.S. might consider a ground operation to seize Khargh Island, home to the terminal through which Iran exports most of its oil, Baghaei warned of consequences.

“I think there are people in those regions (southern Iran), and their number is not small, and they are looking forward to welcoming those guys (U.S. troops),” he said. U.S. President Donald Trump has previously threatened to take the island. Baghaei also said Iran had repeatedly urged neighboring countries to stop the U.S. from using their territory and facilities for attacks.

These would be all the Kurdish, MEK proxies the US and Israel have groomed for years.

“What we are doing is self-defense,” he said. “As long as these crimes and military aggression against Iran continue, our armed forces will continue to respond.” The U.S. conducted a new round of airstrikes early Monday, hitting an area around a northwestern city believed to be home to underground missile bases, after announcing the death of another American service member.

Iran responded with attacks targeting Bahrain, home of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, and Kuwait. The latest strikes showed how the two sides have inched closer to all-out war as last month’s interim deal meant to permanently end the fighting has crumbled and shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has largely stalled. Both sides have targeted civilian infrastructure relied on by millions of people.

Bob Gray, a Chilliwack, B.C.-based certified wildfire ecologist, said the U.S. complaints sidestep the fact that wildfire smoke routinely crosses the border in both directions.

“We trade smoke back and forth across the border all the time,” said Gray, who started his career decades ago as an elite wildland firefighter in the U.S.

He pointed to 2020, when smoke from fires in the western U.S. choked Vancouver’s harbour. In 2023, a fast-moving wildfire roared across the border from Washington state into Osoyoos, B.C. and nearly wiped out several subdivisions.And blazes in Minnesota crossed the border into Ontario earlier this year.

Mr. Gray said given the extreme conditions under which the Ontario fires exploded, there was never a real prospect of putting them out.

The majority of the fires were ignited around July 12 by a lightning storm across the region. The Fire Weather Index, a numerical rating of potential fire intensity, was off the charts. Forest fuels were so dry that virtually everything would have been available to burn. Another indicator measuring the expected severity reached the top of existing scales, making it far too dangerous to put firefighters on the ground.

“You can’t fight those fires,” Mr. Gray said.

High wind speeds pushing the fires across largely flat boreal forest meant that even air assets like water bombers and helicopters would likely not have worked, Mr. Gray said.

Canadian fire crews battle wildfires using roughly the same tactics and strategies of their U.S. counterparts, Mr. Gray said.

In recent years, Canada has moved away from aggressively suppressing all wildfires, instead choosing what’s called a “modified response” in some cases where conditions indicate fires can be safely left to burn, which is also similar to the U.S.

American accusations that Canada has not done enough to reduce forest fuel loading across the country, which is leading to larger and more destructive wildfires, has some truth to it, Mr. Gray said. But the solution is much more nuanced than Mr. Trump’s argument suggests.

I’m not touching the man made climate change aspect, because climates change- THE END

The other significant factor is the “fire debt” that North Americans created across fire prone landscapes through 100 years of obsessively trying to extinguish all wildfires, letting forests grow unnaturally dense. Now when they burn, they burn hotter and more intensely.

Canadian provinces lag behind some U.S. states when it comes to the use of prescribed fire to reduce fuel loads. The state of New Jersey, which is 43 times smaller than B.C., uses prescribed burning on almost five times as much land per year as B.C. does.

We “could be doing more prescribed burning and cultural burning,” Mr. Gray said.

However, more forest thinning wouldn’t have stopped the current Ontario wildfires. Those forests are too remote to be reasonable targets for fuel thinning with no roads to access them, Mr. Gray said.

And if Canada did more prescribed burning, where possible.. Americans would complain about the smoke

In order to make fuels thinning economically viable, there needs to be a market for all the wood fibre that must be removed from Canadian forests. But Americans’ tariff policies undermine any viable market for that fibre, Mr. Gray said.

Trump’s Terrible Temper Tantrum Regarding Tariffs for Smoke are Tiresome

American’s are awfully quiet about all the smoke and environmental damage their endless war making for empire has caused so many people the world over-

What I saw yesterday during the last game of the World Cup was nothing but corruption and thuggery. Argentina’s team was the goon squad and so called refs and officials catered to their every corruption.

Spain was the far better team and thankfully they won.

That said, FIFA officials and the Argentinian team ruined this competition with their disgraceful actions. Really disgusting display of poor sportsmanship, outright cheating and more.

Oh and the "half time show" Please let that be the first and last time ever!!

Just my opinion for good reason

Defense officials have cited “controlled unclassified information” in the annual report by the Government Accountability Office to prevent public release of an annual oversight report.– American Machinist

Some problems cited by the GAO office just last month from the end of the article:

Earlier in June GAO issued “F-35 Sustainment: Actions Needed to Ensure Updated Strategy Improves Persistent Readiness Challenges,” in which it reported:

2025 :“F-35 sustainment costs have continued to increase, but the F-35 has not met performance goals and performance has trended down. Across the fleet from fiscal year 2021 through fiscal year 2025:

The mission capable rate (percentage of time the aircraft can perform one of its tasked missions) declined from 67 percent to 44 percent.
The full mission capable rate (percentage of time the aircraft can perform all of its missions) declined from 38 percent to 25 percent.”

The Pentagon is blocking release of a June Government Accountability Office report on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, indicating that the report contains “Controlled Unclassified Information.” CUI is designation used by federal officials to characterize information created or possessed by the government that requires safeguarding or limited public access.

No details about the specific CUI have been offered by the Pentagon. The unreleased, June 25 report is titled, “F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: Update on Production and Modernization Efforts.”

However, program costs difficult to establish. It was not until September 2025 that the Pentagon and Lockheed settled a $24.3-billion contract for 296 aircraft in Lots 18 and 19, with those aircraft already in production. A year earlier the two sides had negotiated a framework agreement on production costs, generally fixing the unit price at $82.4 million per aircraft.

In December 2025 the Pentagon’s own inspector general reported that the F-35 Joint Program Office has not consistently held the lead contractor Lockheed Martin accountable for poor performance in sustainment activities for the fighter aircraft. It established that the F-35 jets had achieved a readiness rate of just 50%, though the contractor was paid in full without any fees or adjustments.

Smells like a cover up to me!

March 5th of this year

June 29th of this year

Here one news article, from AA, covering the strikes

A missile and kamikaze drone attack struck Iraq’s northern city of Sulaymaniyah on Friday, triggering a fire, local media reported.

Erbil-based Rudaw TV reported that the attack involved both missiles and a kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicle. A fire broke out at one of the targeted sites, and ambulances were dispatched to the area.

Iraqi President Rejects Attacks on Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, Reaffirms Sovereignty

Sovereignty, Iraq? That’s funny

Article from National Context

Including excerpts – read entirely at link above. Thank you

At least nine Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Komala movement were killed today in an Iranian attack in Sulaimani province. The strike caps a violent stretch inside Iran’s majority Kurdish northwest, where at least nine armed incidents were documented in June, killing more than 20 Iranian Kurdish militants. Most of the significant engagements were initiated by the IRGC through ambushes and intelligence-driven operations.

The spike in incidents has coincided with a reported buildup of Iranian forces and special operations units in the same areas where the clashes occurred. On 14 July, Alhurra quoted senior Iranian Kurdish opposition figures describing an Iranian deployment along the frontier of roughly 3,000 Saberin special forces personnel, arriving in waves of approximately 1,000, alongside IRGC Ground Forces units, Aerospace Force elements, artillery, rocket launchers, armour and drones. Ali Khoshnamak, a senior figure in the Komala Revolutionary Organization of the Toilers of Kurdistan, told the channel these were trained and trusted regime forces whose scale and composition indicated preparation for possible ground warfare. The same sources described daily drone reconnaissance over the frontier and approaches to the Kurdistan Region, along with electronic warfare systems for jamming and satellite disruption.

Through March, the contours of a potential Kurdish front became public. On 6 March, Reuters reported, citing two Iranian Kurdish sources and one Israeli source, that Israel was supporting Iranian Kurdish planning to seize border areas around Oshnavieh and Piranshahr, with thousands of fighters gathering on the Iraqi side and opposition strength estimated between 5,000 and 8,000. The parties wanted air support and political guarantees before committing. They never received them. Turkey, Reuters reported in May, opposed and helped suppress the offensive proposal, fearing it would strengthen PKK-linked networks and derail Ankara’s own process with the PKK. The KRG, for its part, had no interest in becoming the staging ground for a war against its neighbour.

Hope you can see the linked images??

In short:

The global economy was spared from the worst of the biggest oil shock in 50 years because of large oil reserves, according to the International Monetary Fund.

It says lower consumption in Asia and higher oil production outside of the Gulf helped absorb further price shocks.

What’s next?

Experts say global oil prices are likely to increase as reserves dwindle.

Depleted oil reserves have left economies vulnerable to soaring fuel prices as the US-Iran conflict resumes, the IMF has warned.

Before the war began, global oil supplies were at about 2 million barrels a day above demand.

The IMF the closure of the Strait of Hormuz had not led to a “full-blown price shock” because the reserves absorbed what the market could not.

It said that by the end of May oil reserves were estimated to be about 1.2 billion barrels, which was half the level prior to the conflict.

“That cushion, however, has been spent,” the IMF said.

“If the disruption were to persist at current rates, that lower bound would be reached by early 2027.“

“Well before that point, prices would likely move sharply higher, as the market would effectively be operating without a safety net.”

Trump and Bibi look like they want to keep this one going..

More interesting reads below:

Russia warns coalition of willing forces in Ukraine would be ‘legitimate military targets’

Russia on Tuesday warned that the military contingents from the so-called “coalition of the willing” in Ukraine would be “legitimate military targets” if stationed there.

Commenting on remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron about plans for deploying forces in Ukraine at a press briefing in Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called this possible move “unacceptable.”

“In this context, we would like to once again emphasize that the deployment in Ukraine of any military contingents from the so-called coalition of the willing is unacceptable for our country,” she stressed.

Zakharova added: “This would, I repeat, de facto amount to foreign intervention and an increase in threats to Russia’s security. Such units will be regarded by us as legitimate military targets.”

The official also said that Western arms deliveries remained one of the main obstacles to a settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.

She referred to previous remarks by former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who said the conflict would have ended “within days, weeks, or a month” if Europe stopped arms supplies to Ukraine.

“If the Western Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe participating states genuinely want to end the confrontation, which is draining the resources of their own taxpayers, they simply need to stop supplying weapons to the Kyiv regime,” she said.

The spokeswoman urged Europe to “stop hiding behind talk of peace and openly admit that they want only one thing—aggression.”

Zakharova also said that Western-supplied weapons had been used against Russian civilians and warned that some of the arms had entered illicit circulation.

“Such cases have already been documented,” she said, adding that weapons had allegedly surfaced not only in Europe but also in Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.

Separately, Zakharova criticized military exercises conducted by Poland near the borders with Russia and Belarus, describing them as an attempt to “flex its muscles.”

She said the drills, held on July 13-14, reflected what she called Warsaw’s desire to strengthen its position as “the leader of Eastern Europe” and “the main bastion of NATO’s eastern flank.”

“The intensification of Poland’s military activity near the borders of Russia and Belarus once again demonstrates the complete irresponsibility of the Polish elite,” Zakharova said.

Russia and China are set to meet in Ankara

Russian Ambassador to Ankara Sergey Vershinin, will host an intriguing event on 16 July. In fact, it is a joint initiative with China’s Ambassador to Ankara Jiang Xuebin , though the venue has been set as the Russian Embassy. A conference will mark the 25th anniversary of the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation between Russia and China.

The same program is being held in capitals around the world. In Australia, for example, the venue is the Chinese Embassy in Canberra. In some countries the conferences are hosted by Russian embassies, in others by Chinese missions.

Speaking at the conference held at the Russian Embassy in Beijing, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Bin said that Russia and China regard each other as “foreign policy priorities” and “support one another on core interests.”

Ukraine has been attacking Turkish vessels in the Sea of Azov- Interesting

Lavrov: Russia expects Türkiye to send strong signal to Ukraine over attacks on Turkish vessels

Russia hopes Türkiye will send a strong signal to Ukraine following attacks on Turkish vessels in the Black Sea, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, APA’s Moscow bureau reports.
avrov described Ukraine’s attacks on civilian vessels in the Sea of Azov as terrorism.

The Russian foreign minister added that such actions could not even be described as piracy.

“Because pirates seize cargo, they do not destroy it,” Lavrov said.

He said Moscow expects Ankara to publicly assess Kyiv’s actions.

FETÖ members enjoy freedom in US after plot against Türkiye

Of course they do! At my censored blog there are many, many articles covering the US backed coup attempt on the Turkish leader.

Russia calls for immediate halt to military hostilities in Persian gulf/Strait of Hormuz

New US Sanctions Target Russian Oil Exports and Shadow Fleet

New U.S. Sanctions Bill Targets Russia’s Oil Exports and Shadow Fleet
By RFE/RL staff – Jul 15, 2026, 9:00 AM CDT

The revised bill replaces the earlier proposed 500% tariff with tariffs of up to 100% aimed primarily at the largest buyers of Russian oil and gas.
The legislation would impose broad sanctions on Russian officials, financial institutions, energy projects, oligarchs, and the shadow fleet used to evade existing sanctions.
Although the proposal enjoys strong bipartisan Senate support, it faces criticism in the House over the amount of tariff authority granted to the president.

Chinese FM rejects US unilateral sanctions targeting Russian energy buyers

Chinese Foreign Ministry (FM) spokesperson Lin Jian on Wednesday rejected a new US sanctions bill targeting countries that continue energy trade with Russia, saying China firmly opposes “illegal unilateral sanctions” that lack a basis in international law or authorization from the UN Security Council.

China will take all necessary measures to firmly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of its enterprises and citizens, Lin said, warning that applying double standards and resorting to coercion and pressure will ultimately “end up shooting oneself in the foot.”

US issues new non-proliferation sanctions against those tied with Iran and Russia

The United States has imposed new non-proliferation sanctions targeting individuals and entities in Russia and Iran, according to a post on the US Treasury Department’s website, The Times of Israel reports.