Donald Trump on Sunday called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian diesel, saying the attacks are causing a fuel shortage.
Ukraine’s long-range strikes have been targeting Russia’s oil and gas industry for months, which Kyiv says both funds and directly fuels Moscow’s more than four-year-old invasion of its neighbor.
The Ukrainian drone campaign has caused fuel rationing across Russia, despite the country being a key oil and gas exporter. Other Ukrainian strikes targeted major Russian online retailers, bringing the war ever closer to the public.
Uhh was America buying Russian petroleum? Thought there was an embargo?
Deisel is a resource used globally. The US doesn’t have to be purchasing Russian oil for Russian supplies to impact oil prices in the US.
It’s also why the whole argument about drilling in the US to make oil cheaper falls apart. Oil from Venezuala, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Texas, Trinidad, Abu Dhabi, or Alaska all end up in the same international commodity markets.
The Orange Shitbag Russian asset can piss off. The Muscovites should leave Ukrainian territory, which includes the Crimea.
Lol the shortage is caused by starting a war with Iran
Hit Russia harder Ukraine, make sure that they remember this the next time they think of invading!
Make them give up thr nuclear weapons.
Well, actually, the diesel thing started with the Ukraine war because Russia is a massive diesel producer and the sanctions drove diesel prices up starting 3 years ago.
lol
To be fair, this graph doesn’t really counter the above comment… you’d need a graph from ~2020 (or before) to disprove their comment around prices rising 3 years ago.
Of course it doesn’t, because they’re being disengenuous; retail diesel was under $2 in 2021.
2021 was also just pulling out of the pandemic that sent oil prices negative for a while because demand destruction was so radical. I don’t think that’s a fair comparison.
Better look is here for complete data back to 1990… Diesel was pretty stable mostly through 2012 to 2020 at around $3/USD. It dropped during the pandemic, then spiked again after Russia’s invasion. It was slowly returning to an average baseline before Trump stuck his dick in it though.
So it looks stable until all of the US wars in the middle east around 2000s
Crazy how that works! It’s Republicans all the way down.
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Stop or what? You’ll pull all aid? You’ll pressure Ukraine to surrender to the Russians?
Oh wait, you’ve already done that.
Get fucked, Russian puppet Trump.
While I don’t want to be a Negative Nancy, I also don’t want the remaining forces of the West to lose touch with reality, so I feel I should point out that there are still things Trump could do to put even more pressure on Ukraine, so we shouldn’t be flippant about the threat he still poses.
Nah, fuck that. Trump shouldn’t threaten a tiny country.
To be clear, I don’t disagree with the fact that Trump needs to take a long walk off a short pier. My point is that we can’t afford to convince ourselves that Trump has already done all the damage he’s going to do.
Shouldn’t? 100%.
Wouldn’t? 0%
I feel the fuck Trump mentality to my bones. And I get that talking shit in our little corner of the internet will accomplish fuck all either way, so have at it.
But in the big picture, Tango is right, Trump has the power to make things much worse for Ukraine, and the emotional maturity of a two year old. The means don’t justify the ends, especially when those ends are Trump switching from passive fucking with Ukraine, to active.
Like most presidents, Trump’s term will end with a helicopter ride.
Except it won’t be Marine One.
Trump will be evacuated from the White House by an FSB extraction helicopter.
1st term i was hoping a sub would pick him up from Fla. and then sink. ➖
Yeah, I figure as soon as he is out of office he will vanish to somewhere without extradition.
America is super tough on tgeir criminal leaders i heard
Oh ffs. Putin could retreat from Ukraine anytime.
Yeah, I know he can’t. He’d be done for politically and possibly also physically.
US should let Seal Team 6 handle this new oil crisis like they handled Bin Laden. Just send the them to Putin’s Datscha and boom, Russia would retreat from Ukraine, Ukraine would stop hitting Russia. Problem solved.
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US should let Seal Team 6 handle this new oil crisis like they handled Bin Laden. Just send the them to Putin’s Datscha and boom, Russia would retreat from Ukraine, Ukraine would stop hitting Russia. Problem solved.
By invading countries that have nothing to do with it, taking the better part of a decade doing so before finishing the task?
This is probably not correct, and seal team six would likely have much higher risk trying to go I to Russia, and neither AL queda nor venuxela have nukes.
I’m not convinced this ends with Putin though. Yes, there’s a chance the next guy in line will want to pull out, blame Putin for all the shortcomings, and act like this shit never happened. But that’s not the Russian way. The Russian way is fuck all the poor people, let’s start a war that is surely going to help us domestically. This could still mean pulling out of Ukraine, but then invading some other more defenceless country, just to show that Russia is still powerfull and manly.
So no, I’m not convinced cutting the head off the snake is really the solution.
Halt strikes on Iran and you’ll get more supply
a few years back we were exporting oil. us doesn’t need their supply. fracking boom. strait is just driving up insurance and fees across the board. oil co’s always looking for excuse to jack up prices. 🛢️
This is too fuckin funny man. This gives me a tremendous amount of joy, and strengthens my support for the Ukrainian war effort. Keep going Volodymyr!
That sounds like he does not have the cards if he has to beg like this.
Donny boy’s hand: 2♣, 🟥, 🦤, 2+2=, Four Seasons Landscaping 📇
I’m pretty sure that’s not a winning hand.
He might have them after the mid terms, but the libs keep scalping them with the magic ones because they hate baby Jesus
Ukraine President Zelenskyy calls on President donald trump to halt strikes on Iranian diesel, saying the attacks sre causing a fuel shortage.
That’s literally the goal of the attacks…
It is great to get confirmation that it has the intended effect from putins lap dog himself though
Instead of calling on Russia to end the war which would also stop the attacks and have the benefit of stopping the fucking killing of families and shit
Strange because Russian could stop it themselves… very simply.
This. Why doesnt pedo president call pukin to halt their invasion of their neighbours
Same reason my car doesn’t tell me where it wants to go, but instead it’s the other way around
