• hansolo@lemmy.today
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    Inaccurate headline.

    Trump said that stuff. No one else has confirmed it. He says a lot of stuff that ends up wrong or a lie. Statistically, believing him is the only way to mess this up.

    • Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      There’s literally Russian tanker entering USA waters. In order to get there now, the ship must have left the port weeks ago so the decision was made even earlier.

      The story went in a same way when USA decided to buy belorussian fertilizer. Ship went ahead when the white house was in deep denial only to revert course a day or so before she hit the USA waters.

  • wuffah@lemmy.world
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    The President of the United States of America gives material aid to America’s enemies.

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      Hmm, that sure sounds like treason to me. Back in my day the understanding was being treasonous could get you the death penalty.

    • Miller@lemmy.world
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      There is no United States of America, no America’s enemies, no America’s allies either. There is only Trump and amorphous, vain, mercenary and oblivious Trumpism sitting in a world of non-Trump fodder commodities.

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        Nah, Americans are responsible for their government. Just like Germans were responsible for Hitler. Americans could take to the streets and shut down the country.

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    Not enough diesel to matter to our prices, but a boon for Russia. Will probably use the money to help kill Americans too. Isn’t there a sanction law on buying Russian fuel?

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      I have a more practical question: how is it supposed that diesel to be delivered if the refineries have been under pressure and the available fuel is not enough to fully supply the domestic needs?

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        Its simple! russia sells crude oil to India, India refines it and sells the diesel to russia, South Korea also sells some random shipments of diesel to russia, russia then sells it to the US!

        Or something? I dunno. I’m confused about everything these days.

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    What diesel? They lost half their refining capacity in the last year and don’t even have enough diesel for their own usage.

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      They’re planning on it never coming, then blaming it on the Dems after they win a bunch of seats in the midterms because of how abysmal everything is going under Trump.

      Safe Republican areas already saw increases in primary turnout and swings of up to 40 points. Even with the fuckery they know theyre going to lose and are planning on trying to pin the blame wherever they can.

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        Europe has been planning for this for a while now. It’s going to suck but once it’s clear the midterms are compromised, Trump can and will throw Ukraine fully under the bus, no more pretense.

        It adds up to me…it’s why Putin hasn’t given up (he knows his opportunity is coming), why Trump is not acting like the midterms matter at all, why Europe has been moving to a war footing (Russia has no momentum, so there’s obviously an inflection point coming).

        Is it really that hard to believe? I’ve been sure of this for well over a year (midterms being ignored/illegitimate, MAGA taking full power afterward). I really, really hope I’m wrong and will admit my ignorance if I am, but I just don’t see any other logical outcome that doesn’t involve something like a friendly coup or other black swan event

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    The timing is unbelievable.

    Jokes. Its totally believable. That fat piece of shit doesn’t do anything for anyone but himself. This is all to manipulate votes.

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      It’s more to help Putin with a big dump of cash. Russia is running out of more than diesel.

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      America needs cheap oil because Trump fucked with Iran.

      Iran shoots everything going through the straight. Trump buys diesel from Russia. Russia spends money to buy weapons in Iran. Iran spends these money to produce weapons. Iran keeps shooting everything going through straight.

      … fucking winning eh?