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So - why isn't the U.S. putting pressure on Hungary and Slovakia to stop importing Russian oil? Because Orban and Fico are among Trump's biggest supporters in Europe, and their nationalistic populism is also quite well regarded within the GOP base. We will mouth platitudes about how "Europe" should reduce their oil imports from Russia (which are about 6% of Russian exports), but we won't name the two countries that are actually doing the importing. Complaining about "Europe" scores points with the GOP base, but criticizing Hungary would actually impose a bit of a cost on Trump.

1. How do you know we aren't?
2. How much would zeroing out those two really move the needle?

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