I wonder if Putin actually suggested it to trump
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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.
It's Trump's style
To win, you need someone to lose
if his allies lose, he's winning
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.
Suddenly? The US has been siding with Russia and snubbing Ukraine and its allies for a few years now.
Even from a rightwing standpoint pre 2010, this confirms Russia managed to turn the government and make them their bitch. Which means despite losing in Ukraine like the pathetic genocidal maniacs they are, Putistan won the cold war.
He's not wrong. What is the point of sending Ukraine weapons if you're going to pay Russia as well?
Ugh, fuck the US
*fuck Trump.
Trump will go down as one of the worst leaders in world history, beside Nero.
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.
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.
Pol Pot is a good contender, but even his actions didn't have this level of global impact.
He's been a really good promotor of energy independence with renewable power and sales of electric cars have never been higher.
But the rest, the dude has the mierdas touch. Everything he touches turned to shit.
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.
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.
You don't understand the US needs the Diesel to checks notes Power data centers which forces the residents evacuate due to the smoke
Trucking and farming are far larger, and more important uses of diesel in the US
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.
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.
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.
So call me confused… But isn’t Russia short of diesel itself? And isn’t this breaking a bunch of agreements between western countries?
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
Valid military target, then, Zelenskyy
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.
Right? My preference would be that Ukraine steals it for their use... but blowded up is second best
Hit the ships carrying it. Legit targets. The orange traitor is a russian asset.
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.
It’s definitely an investment in the MIC. Our country is crooked and cooked.
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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