>>513064929
I think part of it also has to do with wanting to open the US market up to Russian manufacturing, because it's a huge missing piece of his tariff plan. He desperately needs somewhere cheap (that isn't China) to fill the market since pre-tariff stockpiles are running out. It's really the only place he has left to go if he wants to import manufacturing capacity, but I also don't think he's smart enough to have figured that out.