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I wonder if Putin actually suggested it to trump

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago*

    Z, buddy, you knew what you were allying with. The US is a warmongering nation. I hate it, but that's what we are. That our country didn't jail Donald after January 6 was all the information you needed to know the risks associated with being a US proxy.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It's Trump's style

    To win, you need someone to lose

    if his allies lose, he's winning

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  • [–] 21 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

    It's so fucking sad, pathetic, and treasonous.

    Suddenly USA is aiding and abetting Russian imperial wars? And favor them over allies?

    This will end in disaster.

    Imagine, the courage and bravery of the Ukrainian people to defend their nation against unprovoked aggression with such consummate sense of duty and with such heart, only to be stabbed in the back by the very country who waged endless proxy wars against "communism" and the Red Threat for the better part of a century.

    This is a disgrace to humanity, a stain on our civilization and an affront to all those who fought and died to ensure the continued existence of civil democratic society.

    Abysmal.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    He's not wrong. What is the point of sending Ukraine weapons if you're going to pay Russia as well?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago*

    Translation: War is a hegemonic device for forced oil dependency

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  • [–] 25 points 2 days ago

    its also giving aid to the enemy

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  • [–] 78 points 3 days ago (8 children)

    Trump will go down as one of the worst leaders in world history, beside Nero.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 days ago*

    Nero was libeled by the christians after the fact. You feed a few of them to lions and they never shut up about it. But that was the custom then.

    Rome had a lot of monsters as emporers, Nero didn't even rank.

    IE caricalla, and that was before shit got really bad.

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  • [–] 60 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    I cannot think of any head of state who has a worse track record in terms of statecraft, vision, inspiration, or even pure accomplishment. Even if you flatten your moral judgment and only look to how skillfully even the evilest men in history achieved their aims, he's plainly a negative outlier. His only signal achievement is in uniting the sentiment of the entire planet against the US.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Doesn't he want to join the EU? Aren't EU nations doing the same? It seems everyone has a price when it comes to fuel and energy.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 days ago

    This is deplorable, self-inflicted issue and then let sick putin off the hook. This is bad fruit produced from bad people and policies. Healthy policies and ways to be excellent to each other, produces good people, but so many keep insisting on the bad ways/trees which produces the bad fruit.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Let's be real here, it sounds like a lot of fuel. It isn't.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (6 children)

    Trucking and farming are far larger, and more important uses of diesel in the US

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago* (1 child)

    The military uses more diesel than anyone else. Sure half of the carriers and all the subs are nuclear, but none of our plethora of frigates and corvettes and cruisers are, not to mention the tanks, jeeps, and trucks.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    2005 or 2006 numbers from wiki

    The Department of Defense uses 4,600,000,000 US gallons (1.7×1010 L) of fuel annually

    So 4'600 million per year for military. Total diesel usage of the USA is roughly 20 million barrels per day, so 840 million gallons per day, so 300'000 million gallons per year. Roughly 2 % for military. I doubt that is the largest consumer. Transportation should easily be more with millions of trucks.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    I know, I'm not literally saying that LLM's are the reason the US has to import more Diesel but it's so emblematic and aggravating example of the wasteful way in which western society (and the US in particular) uses fossil fuels I put that instead of how trains are far more efficient means of transportation, especially for logistics.

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    [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Koch oil refineries in Russia never stopped churning

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  • [–] 57 points 3 days ago (12 children)

    So call me confused… But isn’t Russia short of diesel itself? And isn’t this breaking a bunch of agreements between western countries?

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  • [–] 29 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    They are having diesel shortages and super high prices since the refineries keep getting blown up while simultaneously a lot of the middle east ones are out of commission. So not necessarily a ton for America to vacuum up and feel substantial relief but it does give fat stacks of cash to boost refinery repair efforts by pumping up demand and prices for Russian diesel

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    [–] 63 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Valid military target, then, Zelenskyy

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  • [–] 44 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Nothing would make me happier than to see US diesel purchased from Russia go to the bottom of the ocean.

    And I'm a fucking environmentalist.

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  • [–] 42 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Hit the ships carrying it. Legit targets. The orange traitor is a russian asset.

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    [–] 36 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    A complete and total throwing of Ukraine under the bus. I cannot believe the Russian interference in US politics is so nakedly obvious and still nothing being done.

    Maybe it's moot as the chaos really starts in just a few weeks. But wow.

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    [–] 29 points 3 days ago (11 children)

    It’s definitely an investment in the MIC. Our country is crooked and cooked.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 days ago* (9 children)

    I'd be angrier about this deal if I didn't suspect that Trump tweeted this without any planning and when his flunkies try to act on it they'll just get stuck asking Grok 'how do I import russian diesel" and never actually figure out how to do this.

    I don't know if this is a hot take, but I don't think Trump's administration knows how international business or oil shipping works. I legit don't think they can figure out how to buy diesel from Russia.

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