"The Provision That Is Most Troubling For The Kremlin Is Hidden In The Procedure"
- 28.07.2026, 9:27
The pressure on Putin is so intense that he will soon have no strength left to resist.
Political analyst Michael Naki has compiled all the factors being used to pressure Russia, which allow us to draw certain conclusions.
“The sanctions are working, no matter how much the Kremlin tries to deny it, but unfortunately, they’re just working slowly. The U.S. approach is proceeding in parallel. A a bill that now bears the name Lindsey Graham. Senator Lindsey Graham, who had been working on it from the very beginning, died on July 11. May he rest in peace. “The bill authorizes the imposition of secondary tariffs of up to 100% against countries that continue to purchase Russian oil, gas, uranium, and petroleum products, and adds restrictions on LNG, the shadow fleet, and the financial sector,” Michael Naki informed his viewers. The political analyst discussed how pressure began to mount on Putin from all sides simultaneously on his YouTube channel.
“The most troublesome provision for the Kremlin is hidden in the procedure. The bill requires the U.S. president to report to Congress before lifting any restrictions on Moscow. Sanctions are no longer subject to the personal discretion of Trump or any other president and are now being handled on Capitol Hill, where Russia is viewed far more negatively than Trump did until recently. Everything the Kremlin had hoped to negotiate in private talks with the White House will now have to be negotiated with both chambers,” Naki said.
The blogger added: “Let’s shift our focus to Washington, where the most painful event for Moscow over the past year took place. On the 23rd, on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in Manila, Lavrov spoke for 35 minutes with Secretary of State Marco Rubio about nothing. After the meeting, Rubio stated that the proposals discussed at the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage had not led to a resolution and that a resolution is now possible only on the basis of new approaches.”
“Put all this together, and we arrive at July, when the pressure on the Kremlin ceased to be Western and became universal. Kazakhstan is publicly asking for a halt. India is summoning a diplomat. Azerbaijan is demanding an investigation and offering itself to Europe as a replacement. The Hungarian veto has disappeared. American diplomacy has shut down the only framework Moscow had been clinging to for a year, and European sanctions have been adopted in the toughest version since the war began. Not to mention China, where they’re already looking to see who they’ll have to work with after Putin,” the political analyst concluded.