NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte today warned Brazil, China, and India to lean on Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine or face the U.S.’s secondary sanctions against themselves. Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC) made up the original BRICS, prior to South Africa joining.
While U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday did not specify the three countries, Rutte did today. He told reporters, as reported by Bloomberg: “My encouragement to these three countries particularly is if you live now in Beijing or in Delhi, or you’re the president of Brazil, you might want to take a look into this, because this might hit you very hard. So please make the phone call to Vladimir Putin and tell him that he has to get serious about peace talks, because otherwise this will slam back on Brazil, on India and on China in a massive way.”
