Putin Delays Sending Less Than 2 Hours of US Diesel Consumption by 1-2 Days

[u/ArgentineBeauty]

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/87760

[u/KFC2026]

I didn't realize that the United States President could be bought for such a cheap price

[u/Tridus → u/KFC2026]

I mean, FIFA bought him with a fake award they're considering scrapping after one year because it's such a joke. And they don't have dirt on him.

[u/FlukemanFrancis → u/Tridus]

They also rent an empty apartment in Trump tower for 50k a month

Still cheap for a president like

[u/CursorX → u/FlukemanFrancis]

Just like we didn't know about this until recently, I'm sure some World Liberty Financial crypto is involved too.

DJT clearly likes to diversify when selling America, and only appears cheap.

[u/ryhaltswhiskey → u/CursorX]

That crypto is absolutely a vehicle for bribing the president. I can't prove it, I just know it's true. Pretty sure that if you bought a million dollars worth of that coin you would be able to prove it by showing Don Jr that there was a transfer from your wallet etc.

That's why crypto is great for people who like to launder money and get paid for their crimes.

[u/EDNivek → u/ryhaltswhiskey]

There could be a way to prove it maybe like Trump annouces a dinner to those who have the highest percentage of DJT coin and thus access to the president, but there's no way something like that would happen.

[u/ryhaltswhiskey → u/EDNivek]

No I mean that's the kind of thing that Congress would like totally impeach him right away over right?

[u/Worthyness → u/ryhaltswhiskey]

Subscribe to premium truths for 100k and get into the market altering before the market is altered!

[u/stephenBB81 → u/Tridus]

FIFA also rents out a VERY expensive space in Trump tower that they don't even use. All part of the grift

[u/Etheo → u/Tridus]

WTF does FIFA have to do with peace anyways? It's so hamfisted and glaringly forced, it's absolutely embarrassing.

[u/Tridus → u/Etheo]

Trump wanted a peace prize and FIFA's corrupt leader wanted Trump to not get in the way of his plan to sell the World Cup rights.

That's about it.

[u/mollila → u/Tridus]

That was it. And it's absolutely fucking ridiculously stupid thing to even imagine being part of reality, that it worked on the president of the United States of America. Who gleefully accepted the prize and posed with it with pride.

[u/Googlebright → u/mollila]

He called it the greatest honor of his life 😄

[u/BilboTBagginz → u/Tridus]

I have a family member who WAS pretty high in the FIFA ranks..don't assume they DONT have dirt on someone. Other than the current US administration, it's one of THE most corrupt organizations in existence.

[u/TiredOfDebates → u/KFC2026]

He’s got dementia, so he’s especially susceptible to being toyed with.

Watch speeches of the president over the past year. Age has gotten to the president.

For all the advancements in lifespan and relative quality of life in old age… the treatments for neurological decline and dementia aren’t great.

They work for some patients and not others. Dementia and neurological decline likely has a huge number of potential causes, and I suspect we are only scratching the surface.

[u/Life_outside_PoE → u/TiredOfDebates]

He’s got dementia, so he’s especially susceptible to being toyed with.

I'm reading American Kompromat right now and apparently even in the 80s the Russians/Soviets knew that Trump would be an ideal target due to his low intellect, greed and susceptibility to flattery. He'd seriously sell out anyone for a pat on the head and a "you're right, you know everything."

[u/KFC2026 → u/TiredOfDebates]

So MAGA elected a guy with Dementia... how does that excuse him for being the human shitstain that he is?

[u/EverythingSucksYo → u/KFC2026]

It’s kind of ironic how MAGA gave Biden shit for supposedly having dementia only for their own guy to end up way worse than Biden ever seemed. 

[u/RipDiligent4361 → u/EverythingSucksYo]

The trick is to believe with all your heart that dems would be worse. If I toe that line as hard as I can, I will never be wrong no matter how bad things get.

That is all to say...nuh-uh biden was worse!

[u/hollaback_girl → u/RipDiligent4361]

We'Re NoT a CuLt!!!

[u/JyveAFK → u/KFC2026]

A lass many, many years ago worked in a home for dementia patients and had a good a theory about this as anything.
"it strips away everything you became, back to your core. if you were a nasty person deep down but grew to cover it up and was seen as a nice person, you got nasty. if you were a nice person that life had made you mean, you got back to being nice."
This was after some people became biters. Some would just smile at everyone around them, some would want to play with a toy in their hand constantly and have a sulk if it was taken away.
And it sounds legit to me, dunno if there's any scientific stuff backing it up, but after having to deal with a patient that became a biter if not quick enough, I think she had some solid points.

Which brings us back to Trumpface. He was always like that, but he could turn up the charm to get his own way with those he wanted to get something from. But it's slipping away, and he's going to end up snarling/growling/biting people near him.

[u/Mr_ToDo → u/KFC2026]

If I were in the US I'd think the thing to be angry at isn't(solely)the president. There's a rather large number of people that are supporting and enabling him, and you can't claim that all of them have mental health issues. he makes for a conveniant smoke screen to get all those underhanded things done, with little to no pushback from the public

Consider other presidential terms. How often did you hear about new/proposed laws on the news? The systems hasn't changed, and yet we only hear about the BS that the orange one brings into the centre light

[u/ryhaltswhiskey → u/Mr_ToDo]

Yeah we remember when politics was boring and we never really wondered if the United States was going to align with Russia and North Korea

We have a lot of idiot racists in America who had their brain broken when Obama got elected. Trump appeals to them in so many ways.

[u/lombax165 → u/TiredOfDebates]

Did you see that video where he waves to a non existent crowd? Your guy already has hallucinations.

[u/Icy_Negotiation_5929 → u/lombax165]

He is all sorts of compromised. Very scary times here.

[u/MudLOA → u/Icy_Negotiation_5929]

This could all be stopped with the laws already in place. It fucking infuriating his inner circle is abusing this.

[u/Ember_42 → u/KFC2026]

It's not bought. This is what he actually wants to do (side with Putin) and the diesel is a side benefit. He has lost the cognative ability to maintain an external thought track vs an internal one, so now the "say the quiet thing" voice is the only one.

[u/slugmorgue → u/Ember_42]

Have you seen the way he's been growling at journalists lately, it's genuinely fucked up

[u/MudLOA → u/slugmorgue]

His dementia is taking over. Aggressiveness is one of the hallmark of this.

[u/WretchedBlowhard → u/MudLOA]

It's only a matter of time before he grabs the nearest sharpie to try and gouge a reporter's eyes out. Dementia wards get real physical, real fast. Beds all have wrist and ankle cuffs for good reason.

[u/bobbadouche → u/Ember_42]

Coincidently Ukraine has new weapons coming online this winter and Putin is underwater. So we throttle Starlink to let Russian drones through and give Putin a bunch of money to buy equipment for the winter. We're directly aiding Russia through the winter.

[u/Username_Reported → u/KFC2026]

Tell him hes the greatest, bigliest, president.

That's it.

[u/gorgfan → u/KFC2026]

he just wants to say: "look I did everything I could to cheapen prices" and they hope that nobody who votes for him looks really into the actual numbers. which is a fair bet.

[u/ArgentineBeauty]

May Ukraine's drones find that oil tanker before it ever leaves port.

[u/Luniticus → u/ArgentineBeauty]

What port? Winter is coming and Russia has no warm water ports left.

[u/RobMillsyMills → u/Luniticus]

They use ice breakers to clear the ice for vessels during the winter. And Murmansk is ice free year round due to the gulf stream.

[u/iforgotmyidagain → u/RobMillsyMills]

Drone the ice breakers

[u/johnnyhammerstixx → u/RobMillsyMills]

Hmmm. 

A place where there is only one, small channel through the ice?

You might say its a bottleneck that would be devastating if targeted... all winter?

[u/DerpsAndRags → u/johnnyhammerstixx]

Wait, it's not like one nation can mess with a bigger nation just by holding one little strait of water, right? (big, fat, 'murican /s right there).

Russia and US just buying time to prepare the shareholders for the next insider deal.

EDIT: Spelling

[u/psioniclizard → u/Luniticus]

They should just ship it straight from Iran.

[u/amayako353 → u/ArgentineBeauty]

ukraine wont attack the tanker but the tanker will blow up none the less and it will be ukraines fault, calling it now

[u/Rush_Banana → u/ArgentineBeauty]

The port would be on the pacific ocean, so that would be a long drone trip.

[u/dingle_don → u/Rush_Banana]

Challenge accepted

[u/Odd-Chemistry777]

Of all the things the US has done this second term, the way they turned on Ukraine will never be forgotten.

[u/stunts002 → u/Odd-Chemistry777]

The full blown attack and childish name calling of Zelensky was such a stark and sad low point.

Europe fought for 2 decades for Americas interests after 911, but the moment the danger is on Europe's doorstep America decided to side with the aggressor.

[u/No-Cheek7925 → u/stunts002]

Yanks can’t be trusted. We should have realised this sooner.

[u/DesertPunkPirate → u/No-Cheek7925]

Duh, we let y’all eat shit for years in two World Wars before we showed up. We left the French hang out to dry in Vietnam and swooped in to pick up the pieces, we took the Philippines as a concession from Spain etc. American history has many such examples. It’s not our problem until it’s our problem.

The US has literally ALWAYS done this. Is there an actual example of the US sticking up for a European nation with TROOPS outside of the World Wars? (Actually asking passer-bys)

[u/Rheabae → u/DesertPunkPirate]

War in kosovo?

[u/DesertPunkPirate → u/Rheabae]

Good pull!

[u/Circle-of-friends → u/Odd-Chemistry777]

This will be trumps legacy. Over the everyday corruption, the rapes, the child abuse, the total abuse of power. He will long be known as the man who took the most powerful empire on earth and sold it for 2 hours of oil.

[u/sweetplantveal → u/Odd-Chemistry777]

I'm still yelling at my Democrat reps and buying Ukrainian at any opportunity. I don't have much political power, but Trump turned on them, very out of step with the public.

[u/Otherwise-4PM]

You sold yourselves cheap, Americans.

[u/Illustrious_Twist662 → u/Otherwise-4PM]

Yeah we did, fucking hell man this sucks. Sorry to all Ukrainians for this orange cockholster

[u/Scary-Remote-3837 → u/Illustrious_Twist662]

Sorry to the whole fucking world.

[u/wheatgivesmeshits → u/Scary-Remote-3837]

We're a bunch of bitches. I fucking hate my countrymen who saw that first term and thought we needed more of that. We are collectively the dumbest mother fuckers.

[u/Ezpz_commentz → u/wheatgivesmeshits]

The dude literally attempted a coup and not only did you guys give him fuck all for consequences, you actually rewarded him by reelecting him, a literal insurrectionist!

I know using the generalized "you" may seem offensive, but for fuck's sake he had enough supporters and enough apathetic non-voting fuckers to get reelected and be allowed to do anything and everything he wants with the country.

[u/DiveCat → u/Ezpz_commentz]

He finished his coup on a November 5, 2024.

[u/davidor1 → u/DiveCat]

Not really, but he purged the administration with DOGE, the army with the Hormuz war, civilian suppression with ICE and flock. When he actually start the coup after midterm or 2028 he should have more than decent chance of success. Americans gave him too much time.

[u/themaskedcanuck → u/davidor1]

No, no, no. The midterms are going save to everything. Blue tsunami.Then the Democrats will impeach Trump and everything will go back to how it was before 2016. All will be forgiven and we will join hands around the world in thanks.

Edit: /s

[u/bravolimawhiskey → u/Ezpz_commentz]

Bit by bit of that is repeating in Brazil and it's incredibly frustrating. The favorite candidate for President is the son of Jair Bolsonaro, our very own inssurrectionist dick holster. Feels like half the country has gone fully insane and for the other, sane half of us, it's maddening. Believe me, there is no apathy here. For every million people not wanting to go back to the middle ages under a fascist's idiot and corrupt son, there are a million other people that want EXACTLY that. All in the name of "family, traditional values, God, the fear of communism and trans people invading restrooms".

[u/ryhaltswhiskey → u/bravolimawhiskey]

Is that election still being decided?

Edit: Yes, it is, the next round of voting is on the 25th

[u/spunkkyy → u/Ezpz_commentz]

Americans go on about the importance of their ammendments, and the need for guns to rise up against the government. And yet they do nothing.

[u/DominoDickDaddy → u/spunkkyy]

Probably because the vast majority of the people you speak of are the ones who voted for him.

[u/jugularhealer16 → u/Ezpz_commentz]

I know using the generalized 'you" may seem offensive, but for fuck's sake he had enough supporters and enough apathetic non-voting fuckers to get reelected and be allowed to do anything and everything he wants with the country.

The offensive language is deserved, carry on.

A Canadian

[u/poppin-n-sailin → u/wheatgivesmeshits]

Some of them are victims of propaganda . Pretty much all of them are. Americans really fail to recognize how powerful the propaganda machine is in their country. Your right wing billionaires control nearly ALL the social media and media platforms uses by your people and people around the world. They control what you see, how you see it, and all that. the sooner you realize this the better. I get you wanna blame your countryman. Nothing unites American more than their hatred for Americans. But we live in an age where controlling people is easier than ever for the people at the top. 

[u/-Stackdaddy- → u/poppin-n-sailin]

We are all victims of propaganda, it gets blasted at everyone 24/7. Not everyone falls for it though. It's almost as if the people who fall for it have preconceived notions already. I don't fall for the whole 'immigrants are evil and coming over to our country to steal and rape' line of propaganda, because I'm not a racist, for example.

[u/el_diego → u/-Stackdaddy-]

Education, especially lack of it, makes a huge difference.

[u/KrootLoops → u/poppin-n-sailin]

There's a super old joke about this:

"I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.

"Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them."

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused... There's no propaganda in America."

[u/KaQuu → u/poppin-n-sailin]

Aren't those adults you talking about? It's your responsibility to check yourself in case of falling for propaganda, it doesn't make a great excuse...

[u/SlowCrates → u/KaQuu]

Eh but once you're in it you think you're the free-thinker, that's the problem. Everyone else is just stupid. You're right, everyone else is wrong. How do you expect people who are trapped in the mindset to get themselves out?

People are a little dumber, generally, than people generally believe.

[u/0bsessions324 → u/poppin-n-sailin]

This comment is the entire concept of getting halfway to a conclusion I'm a nutshell.

You started off strong: yes, a huge chunk of Americans are subjected to insane amounts of propaganda. Conservatives run the two largest locals news conglomerates, Nexstar and Sinclair, and the most wide reaching social media platforms (Meta, Twitter, TikTok) are conservative propaganda farms.

Where I would contend you miss is by acting like a failure to realize this is a uniquely American trait. You're about the first non-American I have ever seen even acknowledge that propaganda machine (much less understand how pervasive it is nor how long a lot of it has been in place). Additionally, I take issue with "your" social media when one of the most nefarious operations is owned by a dude from South Africa and one of the largest contributors to this propaganda machine is from Germany.

Further to the point of this not being a uniquely American problem is the fact that white nationalism is growing in most developed nations. Italy is run by a proto-fascist, Germany is giving up ground to fascists, Canada was a hair's breadth away from coming along (and were largely saved from that by external factors), France is all but certain to take a hard right turn next year based on current trajectory, and the UK is moving swiftly right thanks to their own white nationalism. A huge part of that shift has been thanks to the propaganda machine run by the aforementioned South African.

This is a global problem, largely tied to an out of control billionaire class (which is also a global issue) rather than any specific nation, America just happens to have a large footprint because the bulk of the world economy hinges on whatever is going on in the US at any given time.

[u/PepitoPalote → u/Illustrious_Twist662]

I know it is said a lot, but it’s not just him, it’s the entire party, the tech bros and everyone else that has supported this.

[u/fenikz13 → u/Otherwise-4PM]

You’d be shocked at how little most US politicians sell out for. Sinema a supposed Democrat from Arizona changed parties for 20k

[u/flif → u/fenikz13]

Sometimes I think the amounts are so low that it is not about the money.

It is more like they now can think: "I'm important enough to bribe".

I think feeling important is the main driver for a lot of career politicians.

[u/pedrakhan → u/Otherwise-4PM]

we dont know what trump personally gets from this deal.

he doesnt care though whatever happens to the rest of amerika and the budget or politics

[u/Ah2k15 → u/Otherwise-4PM]

It’s a small price to pay to own the libs 🙄

[u/King_Chochacho → u/Otherwise-4PM]

So wild to watch a global superpower just get manhandled by a country that is so otherwise mismanaged it's a borderline failed state. They just beat us with Facebook and a few key bribes. Seems like the UK too.

[u/Bee_boi → u/Otherwise-4PM]

Yeah this shit sucks dude the country is off the rails. Elections coming up next month, hopefully we can start to reverse course (unless they rig it, which the president has alluded to)

[u/Ancient-Bat1755 → u/Otherwise-4PM]

Mmm rust filled diesel

[u/Shot_Heron_2782]

Putin Delays sending Iranian Diesel to Donald until the US Tax Payer funded Payment clears in his bank account.

[u/ACompletelyLostCause → u/Shot_Heron_2782]

The fuel is just a token, it's the dropping of sanctions to get the fuel which is the real payment.

[u/neonnaps → u/ACompletelyLostCause]

Not just dropping them. Making them impotent for the next two years. If the US can ignore them for nothing, why would anyone else take the pain themselves?

[u/Icy-Antelope-6519 → u/Shot_Heron_2782]

Not about money, just to show who is in control….and Trump is not….

[u/boilerdam → u/Shot_Heron_2782]

Wait… hold on. Now Putin controls the oil from a country that Orange Man invaded for oil? What kind of reverse Uno trickery is this?

[u/Shot_Heron_2782 → u/boilerdam]

Iranian Oil is shipped to Russia for Refining, then Russia, now sanction free, sells it on to Donny Diesel.

The real Uno Card is US Tax Payers are funding weapons that shoot at US Military Targets!

[u/MrZakius]

United States sold it's honour and pride for few drops of diesel.

[u/luxxeexxul → u/MrZakius]

WHICH THEY COULD HAVE GOTTEN FROM CANADA

[u/pikachu191 → u/luxxeexxul]

That would be admitting... that the US actually needs something from Canada..... If only there weren't tariffs and 51st state comments....

[u/TSED → u/pikachu191]

It's not an "admitting" thing. The US has been very upfront and explicit about their goal with Canada. From their own mouths, they are attempting to force Canada to capitulate via economic pressure.

The "we don't need anything from Canada" bluster is just for the mindless rubes. This is a genuine trade war with the goal of annexation from the aggressor.

[u/Skin4theWin → u/luxxeexxul]

But the plan is to never actually get it

[u/GGuts → u/Skin4theWin]

The plan was to lose it

[u/Alpinab9 → u/luxxeexxul]

Both Canada and the US are net exporters of diesel. Neither country needs any diesel. The deal is a stunt that will have no affect on the price of diesel. Putin has no diesel to sell. Any that it does has been imported from Iran and others.

[u/clongane94 → u/Alpinab9]

My brother works for a refinery in WA and has told me the vast majority of the diesel they refine is exported because it's more profitable.

[u/Kay_tnx_bai → u/luxxeexxul]

Much cheaper too

[u/vroart → u/MrZakius]

10 years ago hilary called out trump as a puppet for Putin.

[u/Rav3n--- → u/vroart]

And his immediate response was SO. Telling. Immediately got super defensive and tried to reflect.

[u/vroart → u/Rav3n---]

It really goes to show you we don’t have a lot skilled people who can capture the world’s attention. And a known liar was able to “vibe” the most intelligent people in the world, compared to the secretary of the state!

[u/SoftlyAugust → u/MrZakius]

Clearly the deal is symbolic.

[u/povlhp → u/SoftlyAugust]

Sure. The US is a diesel net exporter.

[u/dalgeek]

Lol, what a deal:

The shipment amounts to approximately 13 percent of the initial 300,000 metric tons (about 330,700 US tons) that President Donald Trump said Russia would release immediately under the agreement.

[...]

Ukraine’s presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said the announced 40,000-metric-ton diesel cargo would cover less than two hours of American diesel consumption.

He estimated that the voyage would take approximately three weeks, during which the US would export around 100 times as much diesel of its own.

[u/North_Citron_9211 → u/dalgeek]

It's was never about the fuel, it was about the message 

[u/zoobrix → u/North_Citron_9211]

Exactly, Trump just likes announcing things, the actual impact doesn't matter. It's like him crowing about the Greenland deal, which was basically identical to what the US already had.

And the sad thing is for a lot of idiots out there it works, they read his moronic truth social posts or hear about it on Fox and think Trump actually did something useful.

[u/TyruntasaurusRecht → u/North_Citron_9211]

That America is compromised.

[u/miggidymiggidy → u/dalgeek]

You know it's the shitiest quality too. Probably some dirty, old, unusable, ass diesel that Russia was trying to figure out how to get rid of.

[u/ItsAllOnUHF]

And all it cost us was all our allies.

[u/Slave35 → u/ItsAllOnUHF]

Which took decades of mutual diplomacy and synergistic aid to establish. So much time and effort and power, just completely thrown away, gone.

[u/Away_Cable_958]

because its not real, its theatre to help blame Ukraine for the fuel prices in the US and not the disastrous and incredibly costly war in Iran. Which has also blown US resources to defend Ukraine.

[u/northernCRICKET → u/Away_Cable_958]

The real sick joke is the US denying long range missiles to Ukraine for years, and then wasting their entire stockpile blowing up Iranian schools. Those missiles could have done real good in Ukrainian hands but the US would rather torpedo global trade than help defend democracy

[u/SoftlyAugust → u/northernCRICKET]

This is what frustrates me. Like I'm not even necessarily opposed to having a large or strong military but at least use it for the right things. I wish F-35s had been flying over Russia four years ago.

[u/RedDemio- → u/northernCRICKET]

Fuckkkkkk this comment slaps

[u/finniruse → u/Away_Cable_958]

This is not being talked about enough.

Trump is literally a gameshow host where the goal is to put on a show and draw attention.

That's why it never seems like he does anything. What project is he working on? What policy?

It's just a game of being as loud as possible from day to day to shock and awe the world.

Iran what? Iran who?

[u/EquivalentSnap → u/Away_Cable_958]

You’re right. He’s doing that and buying Russian oil to act like he’s doing something before the mid terms because he doesn’t want peace deal with Iran and take the fall

Once the mid terms are over he’ll ramp up strikes on Iran again because they’re sending another aircraft carrier to the region

[u/PaulaDeen21]

The US bent the knee to this war mongering grifter, how embarrassing.

The rest of the world see’s what they are so clearly now.

[u/BugelKulture → u/PaulaDeen21]

I doubt Americans even know what their country is doing… They are a hopelessly brainwashed populace.

[u/Trespeon → u/BugelKulture]

I wish I could be as oblivious as most of my countryman. Everyday I see crazier and more worrisome news and I think how nothing is being done. Then I realize 30% of the US wants this for some reason(cult) and another 30% is apathetic or doesn’t know better.

The other 30% is probably just trying to make it to their next paycheck for the most part.

I’m 2 years away from my degree and then my wife and I are looking at leaving the country. As much freedom as we have here, surely there is better places to live.

[u/spikederailed → u/BugelKulture]

It really doesn't help the media moguls are so heavily Trump aligned, and it's getting worse. It doesn't feel far away from state sponsored media.

[u/Tazgrent → u/spikederailed]

The guy you're replying to is implying that Americans are like that by nature, not that the media has been completely overtaken, he's a nationalist and not actually making a real observation.

[u/Mynock33]

Really excited for when the next Democrat in office can't fix this shit in their first 100 days and the Right loses their fucking minds and starts Project 2030 so we can ride this roller-coaster of greed, hate, and incompetence all over again.

[u/snow-vs-starbuck → u/Mynock33]

The signs in my area about how "Republicans will make things affordable again!" drive me insane. Anyone who still believes that bullshit shouldn't be allowed to vote. Fuck their feelings.

[u/lathspellll → u/Mynock33]

Yep. It will never end and it will never get better. The country is broken, politically and culturally.

[u/HAL_666]

The art of the deal?

[u/Concurrency_Bugs → u/HAL_666]

Yeah, Trump just gave leverage to Russia in exchange for nothing.

[u/EverythingSucksYo → u/Concurrency_Bugs]

That’s his forte 

[u/NedRyerson_Insurance → u/HAL_666]

For people who want to study art but keep getting rejected by the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

[u/RugerRedhawk]

We are paying our enemies?

[u/cienfuegos2607 → u/RugerRedhawk]

Didn't see the news? Your country enemies are Iran, China, Ukraine, Brazil, Canada, western Europe, South Korea, Venezuela and Cuba.

Your allies: Argentina, north Korea, Russia and ofc your master Israel

[u/Doughtnutz → u/RugerRedhawk]

Russia was never Trump's enemy, Russia is his boss.

[u/2funny2furious]

So, the US is buying diesel from Russia. Russia is then using that money to support Iran. So, the US is supporting Iran in their war against the US.

[u/Lohmatiy82 → u/2funny2furious]

That reminds of Louisiana purchase scheme... US purchased Louisiana from France and partially paid for it with a loan from a n English bank (don't recall the name). France then used this money to fund an army and invade England... So England funded an invasion on itself, sorta.

History, indeed, goes in circles :)

[u/paulsoleo]

Let’s call this what it is: Trump is desperate because the midterms are coming up, and he is not hiding the fact that he is trying to help Russia win the war as soon as he can.

Not that he was ever good at hiding his crimes in the first place, but he’s running out of time and he knows that.

The world doesn’t think America cares, but I can assure you even the painfully stupid ones see how expensive everything has gotten in just a year. There will always be irredeemable slugs who justify anything, but it’s a dwindling group.

This is a totally different Trump from the first term—no quotable moments, no outrageous takes, just pure, relentless, quiet destruction from within. Direct cost-of-living hikes on the lower class under the guise of tariffs, inflating the price of oil through yet another pointless war, etc.

He’s old and weak and he’s about to get neutered.

[u/loco_canadian → u/paulsoleo]

That's the thing though, midterms happen and then what? We're just supposed to believe that from now on things are different?

Trump isn't the problem. It's a larger than acceptable percentage of the population that resulted in Trump. We have no faith that this won't be a repeating cycle, and the world is accepting that fact and moving on without you.

Election cycles aren't going to change the feeling the world has towards America. True change is needed and we're not sure you're all ready to tear it all down and start over, rather than slap a bandaid on the problem and risk it happening every four to eight years.

[u/Groovychick1978 → u/loco_canadian]

That's because this election isn't the end, it's the fucking beginning. And Americans really need to get their heads wrapped around that.

We do not win if we take over the house and senate in November. It just means we get to line up at the starting blocks. This is not the end of the race, this just assures that we get a spot in the fight. 

We have to immediately begin to dismantle everything he has done to us in the last 10 years. It's going to take twice as long, minimum. We are in for the long haul, it's the only way. 

We have to abolish ICE We have to abolish DHS. Immigration enforcement will go back to INS, where it belongs. 

We have to dismantle the flock system in America.

We have to reform our Supreme Court.

We have to purge, prosecute, and execute some of the officials responsible for the treason.

We have a dozen impeachments that we have to move through, outside of prosecutions.

We set our country back 50 years, and it is going to take all of us to dig ourselves out.

Edit: omg, I am a fucking disgrace...

AND PROSECUTE THE EPSTEIN FILES. EVERY FUCKING ONE OF THEM

[u/UShouldntSayThat → u/Groovychick1978]

>And Americans really need to get their heads wrapped around that.... We do not win

We? You're making it sound like its "Americans" vs the Trump administration, and that's not the case. For every one of you that wants to push back against Trump there is someone else that would sell their children to support him. This is what half of you want.

[u/BoardNotBored → u/loco_canadian]

Nope, just like the Japanese, Germans and Italians after world war 2, America has decades of reconstruction and rehabilitation ahead of it IF the voters decide to make the change necessary.

[u/zoapcfr → u/paulsoleo]

The world doesn’t think America cares, but I can assure you even the painfully stupid ones see how expensive everything has gotten in just a year. There will always be irredeemable slugs who justify anything, but it’s a dwindling group.

To be honest, it's little consolation that Americans are only beginning to care now it's actually directly affecting them. So they don't give a shit if they fuck over the rest of the world as long as they're personally okay? That's the exact attitude that leads to people like Trump getting elected in the first place, and shows that the problems won't end with Trump.

[u/Aedeus]

Everyone with a functional frontal lobe could see they were going to pocket the cash and deliver next to nothing.

After this they'll blame Ukraine for their inability to deliver.

[u/Dacoww → u/Aedeus]

Trump doesn’t care. He got his sweetener and some oil company (who also likely bribed Trump) is likely getting diesel at cost and will just pocket the markup rather than drop prices.

[u/Pineappleman60]

And not a peep from Trump, since in his feeble, cowardly mind anything might make Putin walk away and stop giving him attention these really productive "peace" talks

[u/OnlyMeFFS]

WOW..... Those diesel prices are gonna plummet in America to an all time low and Trump will be lauded in the streets by everyone..... Oh wait.

[u/Recovering_slob → u/OnlyMeFFS]

why are we so dependent on a finite resource.

I think black dinosaur juice is metal as fuck too, but we’re basically forced to use it now because all our infrastructure is reliant on it now.

Could have pivoted a thousand times but we always do the stupidest option when available to us, it’s the American way at this point.

[u/Creative-Painter3911]

Just trying to understand the headline. So we were told he was going to send a small drop of what we were lied to about, and as expected, instead of even sending that he delayed it?

[u/Nekowulf → u/Creative-Painter3911]

"The diesel is in the mail, donald."

[u/Tacocats_wrath → u/Nekowulf]

Its a good thing you paid up front Donald

[u/MesMeMe → u/Creative-Painter3911]

Putin is gonna sink his own tanker and blame Ukraine.

[u/troveofcatastrophe]

You know, I’m seriously starting to think there really is a pee tape.

[u/MrMikeJJ → u/troveofcatastrophe]

People always assumed P-Tape was pee. Pedo tape seems more likely.

[u/PositionBeneficial12 → u/troveofcatastrophe]

Just now?

[u/Max-Phallus]

Title gore.

If I understood it correctly, wouldn't this be clearer?

"Putin Delays First Diesel Tanker Under Trump Deal, and It’s Just 13% of What Trump Promised"

[u/kyuronite]

what the fuck does this title even mean

[u/einimea → u/kyuronite]

Trump agreed to purchase Russian diesel, which accounts for less than two hours of US consumption. However, Russia is unable to deliver it as scheduled, causing a delay of 1–2 days

[u/Sirsillybutt → u/einimea]

You already know both Trump and Putin are going to pin this delay on Ukraine

[u/420dankmemes1337 → u/Sirsillybutt]

It's actually true, Russia is allegedly really low on refined diesel right now.

Which is to say, Ukraine should keep doing what they're doing, but Russia is low.

[u/bubblegum-rose → u/420dankmemes1337]

Man, I wonder if there’s a petro-exporting country friendly to Russia that may have supplied them with the diesel that they filled the tanker with.

Say, a nation in the Middle East that’s currently arming itself to the teeth to kill as many Americans that try to invade it as possible. A nation that will probably take the money they got from selling diesel to Russia and use it to build Shaheds that will vaporize any poor kid forced to try and hold Kharg Island.

real headscratcher, that one is…

[u/DumpsterFire11 → u/kyuronite]

Without reading the article or knowing the full details, I read it as the amount of Diesel that Trump's deal with Russia equates to less than 2 hours of diesel use in the country. However, the shipment of said deal has been delayed by 1-2 days.

I think the inclusion of measuring the amount of diesel in terms of time just emphasizes how ridiculous, stupid, and traitorous this deal is. It's not a significant amount for basically turning a big middle finger to this country's allies.

[u/halmyradov → u/DumpsterFire11]

This is correct

[u/herbieLmao → u/kyuronite]

Less then 2 hours worth of us diesel consumption has to be delayed by a few days on tussias side because they don’t fucking have anything

[u/shanksisevil]

get ready to hit the boat Ukraine!

[u/CryMeaRiver2Crawl]

What a truly glorious deal for Trump! Selling out Ukraine for 2 hours of diesel. If that’s not The Art of The Deal in full swing, I don’t know what is. /s

[u/America_Is_Fucked_]

They forgot to remove the Iranian labels from the barrels.

[u/Many_Psychology_3336]

God it'd be hilarious if this just drags on and Trump never gets his thimble of oil anyway.

[u/MysteriousQuote4665]

Already Putin is testing how far he can go with American negotiators and how much he can disrespect them. Russian diplomacy at work, yet again.

[u/Realistic-Brief-7178]

Man, fuck this shithead and the assholes that voted for him. They have put the final nail in the American empires coffin. I figured that it would collapse in my lifetime, but MAGA speed ran this shit into the dirt.

[u/SnivyEyes]

Republicans ran on low prices and no new wars. The exact opposite has happened among some of the worst shit imaginable. Hope ya all are happy electing criminals to office. They suck at everything except for crime.

[u/Effective_Ad621]

Gt Fked Donnie dumbo

[u/jxj24 → u/Effective_Ad621]

Donnie Dorko

[u/enp_redd]

well... You can’t get blood from a stone.

[u/Neobullseye1 → u/enp_redd]

I mean, technically that one depends on how you use the stone...

[u/kendragon]

In Putin's defence, he has to buy it from Iran first, THEN sell it on to the US at a nice markup.

[u/Moistkeano]

Putin is loving this. They now have a US president too dumb to know that he's not the one pulling strings.

He'll have a good laugh at being called a humanitarian later.

[u/PythonsLair]

USA fell off. Begging for fuel from Russia and India

[u/ProductGuy48]

The Republican party in its entirety is now complicit to high treason.

[u/Artistic_You_7140]

Donald truly is a mastermind.

/s (just in case)

[u/No-Usual-6600]

US will never see the diesel. It's a money laundering scheme at the highest level of both governments.

[u/Skynuts]

The EU should seize the diesel and sell it to the US at a higher price.

[u/ACompletelyLostCause]

They'll be lucky to get that much, and it might just end up diluted with a much lower grade fuel anyway.

[u/Rellim03]

Watch Zelensky target this tanker too

[u/steinrrr]

Every American should be in the streets right now. Doing nothing is being complicit

[u/cp_shopper → u/steinrrr]

It turns out that Americans were full of shit when they claimed they would fight to the death for democracy.

[u/I_call_Shennanigans_ → u/cp_shopper]

And also all those pathetic oaths they do arent worth shit.

[u/Sie_sprechen_mit_Mir → u/cp_shopper]

Didn't you hear?

The U.S. were never a democracy but a republic.

^/s

[u/oh5canada5eh → u/Sie_sprechen_mit_Mir]

You just know the idiots that spew that retort genuinely think that is the difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties. Democratic = Democrats so it must be bad.

[u/4862skrrt2684 → u/cp_shopper]

They value their hate for trans people more than their love for democracy

[u/MrSquat]

Wait, the whole deal was for 15 hours of diesel? How much time was spent hammering this out...

[u/QVRedit → u/MrSquat]

It’s NOT really about how long it will last - though people have focused on that.

It’s about the Price Difference that TRUMP can sell it for - as it’s Putin’s Payment to Trump, for Trump’s ‘services rendered’ - about crippling Ukraine.

Since Trump works for Putin for Cash…
He calls that ‘Good Business’

While others call it TREASON…

[u/MatthewBlack6]

Two days, two weeks, you're not getting anything.

You got sold out. Get out and vote.

[u/hamilkwarg]

It’s like when he took all those photos with Kim Jong Un. Just legitimizing bullshit. Like for a few days of diesel you show it’s ok to buy Russian oil. Lose all moral authority (like we had any left). Sanctions? What sanctions?

[u/garthy_604]

So is Trump going to reintroduce sanctions on Russia now then or is he not going to bother hiding who his boss is

[u/Fragrant-Concert2848]

THIS IS A DIRECT CASE OF TREASON BY TRUMP IN AIDING RUSSIA, HES A TRAITOR, AND NEEDED GONE LONG BEFORE NOW

[u/Malt129]

What the fuck is this title. It's literally gibberish

[u/vessel_for_the_soul]

Title gore 

[u/maginster]

He just humiliates krasnov now, first they back Iran, now they're not gonna hand over what amounts to drops of oil on time xD

[u/p-at--t-er--n]

The Art of the Diesel.

[u/Turdsley]

All this winning is just too much to handle.

[u/NUMBerONEisFIRST]

But I bet trump already paid him

[u/Narrow-Low-3137]

What is this title? 

[u/GetRekt9420]

So the deal was for the most minuscule amount of diesel, literally 2 hours worth for the united states total, and he's holding it over trumps head like a chew toy. Bark bitch

[u/dextrousfuckery]

He's just fucking showing off how much of a worthless PUSSY Trump is that he can do whatever the fuck he wants.

Hit another refinery, Ukraine.

[u/im_super_excited]

If we wanted to help the diesel prices with Russian oil, and not help fund Russia further... we would have negotiated a steep discount.

It prevents Russia from profiting on it and have an outweighed impact on market prices.

But instead we have a president that's too much of a coward to do that because he likes to rape children.

[u/buff_butler]

the tanker takes 20 days to cross the ocean, it won't make a difference for the election