Trump's Senate forced deadline is a bust.

 SENATORS GO HOME AND TARGETS SAY NO

MORE SANCTIONS RISK ALIENATING INDIA

Senator Lindsey Graham claims he has 80 senators who want to put huge sanctions on any country that does business with Russia. The threat forced Trump to put a 50 day deadline on Putin to end the war or else. The deadline was then reduced to expire on this Friday. The sanctions would be in the form of tariffs of 100% on China, India, Brazil and others, the response has been an overwhelming rejection by all. The Senate went home without passing the bill.

Most importantly India, who has been fighting for years to position itself as a neutral and non aligned country, seems to be the major target, realizing that Brazil and China were always a no go.

The continued pressure on India, a country that has always had good relations with U.S., is soon going to be pushed further into an alliance with Russia and maybe even China. In the past few years we have witnessed an effort to cause internal problems in India by Canada making claims of assassinations of Indian dissidents in Canada, most likely orchestrated by U.S. intelligence. Recently we see actual fighting between India and Pakistan after a Pakistani terrorist attack on India. Pakistan's military is under control of the U.S. for decades and was instrumental in forcing its popular leader Imran Kahn out of power, attempting to assassinate him and he is now in prison. Khan offense was his hope of making Pakistan an neutral non-aligned country and spare his country from geopolitical intrigue.

This week, India has been airing all its complaints against the U.S. going back over 50 years. and is threatening to cancel its purchase of F-35's. If they do, will they be buying Russian or Chinese options? The outrage is India is becoming overwhelming and Trump is still promising big tariffs  on India for buying Russian oil.

India is exposing that the U.S.. has issued waivers on sanctions on U.S. importers of Russian Uranium, Palladium and fertilizer. It also points out that much Russian oil and gas still finds its way into the EU countries. Some believe it is more about the BRICS trade group than Ukraine.

So now we will see the risk of making deadlines that may be unenforceable or will cause some other escalation to save face. It is becoming apparent that the ability of the U.S. to force compliance from other countries by the use of sanctions may be coming to an end,  maybe it will be replaced with actual diplomacy.