Bravo to Team Trump for bringing the hammer down on Russia with its most significant sanctions yet — the only way to convince Vladimir Putin that refusing to make peace is a dead end.

The sanctions, levied against Russia’s top two energy companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, show the White House is ready to start dealing out hefty punishments for Moscow’s obstinance after a call between Trump and Putin last week.

The Kremlin’s insistence, after that call, that Russia won’t drop impossible demands, left the prez no reason to go face-to-face with Mad Vlad in Budapest.

Crippling the energy sector is a strike at the heart of Putin’s war economy.

Upping the ante, the European Union immediately followed Trump’s lead with its own sanctions , including a ban on Russian liquefied natural gas imp

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