Washington's position, which Donald Trump has expressed many times recently, regarding the cessation of the import of Russian energy by NATO allies, was reiterated by J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio to Hakan Fidan, during their meeting yesterday. As stated in the relevant State Department briefing, the two US government officials "noted President Trump's call for all NATO allies to stop purchasing Russian energy in order to help end the ongoing war in Ukraine". According to available data, Turkey is the third largest importer of Russian crude oil after China and India, while it imports large quantities of Russian natural gas. The cooperation also extends to the field of nuclear energy, as the unit under construction in Akkuyu is the result of an intergovernmental Russian-Turkish agreement and is based on Russian technology. This was the second time in just two months that Washington has publicly pressured Ankara to cut off imports of...