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.

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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.

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      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.

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          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.

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          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.

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    Ukraine President Zelenskyy calls on President donald trump to halt strikes on Iranian diesel, saying the attacks sre causing a fuel shortage.

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      It is great to get confirmation that it has the intended effect from putins lap dog himself though

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        Same reason my car doesn’t tell me where it wants to go, but instead it’s the other way around

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    saying the attacks are causing a fuel shortage

    that’s about all the motivation the need to go on

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    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!

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      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.

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          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.

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            Of course it doesn’t, because they’re being disengenuous; retail diesel was under $2 in 2021.

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              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.

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    This was the funniest bit :

    The global shortage “isn’t done by the ​Middle East, ⁠this is done by what’s happening with Russia and Ukraine,” Trump added.

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      Lol this is all Zelensky’s fault! If only they would let Russia win. What a pathetic pos trump is

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      It could be that Trump is afraid that he will be usurped as the greatest destroyer of diesel supplies. No one chokes fuel like Demented Don!

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        He and the rest of US oligarchy are making money hand over fist. Not like Trump actually gives a shit. He’s playing his voters, his opponents, us all. I shouldn’t be here driving this bullshit engagement but I’m bored, it’s all part of his grift.

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    Oh now he’s suddenly concerned lmao.

    Funny, he didn’t seem concerned when fucking the Hormuz Strait and then lifting oil sanctions for Putin to sell off oil at a premium.

    Hope Ukraine doubles their strike rate.

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      No, now he suddenly sees somebody else to blame for diesel suddenly shooting up above $6 a gallon

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      Funny, he didn’t seem concerned when fucking the Hormuz Strait and then lifting oil sanctions for Putin to sell off oil at a premium.

      That’s because increasing the price of oil so Russia could sell at a premium was a nice side effect of attacking Iran, if not part of the main reasons in the first place. It wouldn’t surprise me if documents declassified decades down the line reveal that was a primary reason for attacking Iran alongside doing whatever Israel wants.

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    Trump calls on US to halt strikes on Iranian oil, saying attacks are causing a shortage.

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      Unfortunately he could have a colouring book with crayons and still not be in any element he’s qualified for.

      Oh this is the guy slightly half of actual participating voters in that country voted for too. Though I do think there’s a good chance not all totals were valid, every fucking swing state? Even their God Reagan didn’t get that blowout, but whatever their system that they decided to fuck over the world with. Good luck on any deals once the orange turd has been flushed.

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        The conservative movement has spent decades cultivating plyable idiots for the purpose of enriching the few in charge. I sometimes wonder if they were caught off guard by how deeply stupid their base is.

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    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