On top of that, Trump moans again about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
Trump to Buy Russian Diesel
Truth Social: I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel. Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Oct 09, 2026, 12:46 PM
Trump Settled Eight Wars
Truth Social: I settled 8 WARS, am close to ending or settling 2 more, got all of the Israeli hostages back, including the final 28, both living and dead, had hundreds of hostages, from countries all over the World, released and sent back home, won a war in Venezuela, and captured the violent dictator who so viciously ran that country, and stopped the number one state sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran, from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon — AND MUCH MORE! Yet, with all of that I, or the United States of America, did not get the Noble Peace Prize. WOW!
Oct 10, 2026, 6:04 AM
Eight Wars Named
Truth Social: This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:
Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and HamasAdditionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea. Add China and Taiwan, and numerous other hot spots, which have not been involved in Wars, only because of President Donald J. Trump, and the United States of America. I am responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe. Additionally, I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars. On top of it all, I have created a soon to be very prosperous Arctic. Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nations—they were of no help. The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t. This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel “Peace” Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization! President DONALD J. TRUMP
The Hypocrisy Department
Trump Says It Should ‘Get a New President’
The New York Times reports Rebuking Ukraine Over Oil Strikes, Trump Says It Should ‘Get a New President’
Hours after President Trump said the United States would buy Russian diesel, the Kremlin said there would be no immediate resumption of discussions to end the war.
President Trump on Saturday accused Ukraine of causing a “world problem” with Russian refinery attacks and said it should “get a new president,” further undermining Kyiv a day after saying he would open U.S. markets to Russian diesel.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Saturday, he said the United States had told Ukraine, “you can do whatever you want to Russia. Don’t hit the refineries because that’s a world problem that’s caused.”
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, he said, “wants to make problems for the world.” He added, “I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president.”
Over four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, Ukraine has pursued a strategy of mid- and long-range strikes that have battered Russian supply lines and oil infrastructure. The attacks have helped Ukraine stall Russian advances and even claw back some territory, but Mr. Trump on Saturday linked them to high fuel prices, which spiked this year after the United States and Israel attacked Iran.
“He wants to make problems for the world,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Zelensky. “He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers with diesel fuel because Russia supplies a large portion of the diesel fuel throughout the world.”
“We will think about when these negotiations might be resumed,” Yuri Ushakov, President Vladimir V. Putin’s foreign policy adviser, said in a statement Friday night.
Does Trump Have a Plan?
Translated from Finnish
Trump’s Russia policy is constantly being searched for some grand strategic plan. I think we should finally dare to say out loud that there might not necessarily be one.
I’ve been pondering all day long about the recent diesel deal between Trump and Putin. To me, it reveals a much larger problem in how we interpret the United States’ current foreign policy. Take a moment to consider the bigger picture of events. Trump has reduced the United States’ own commitment to arming Ukraine. After that, he started a war against Iran, which has driven up energy prices. Now he’s trying to ease the fuel price pressure by striking a deal with precisely that Russia whose war economy the West has been trying to weaken for years.
Can anyone seriously claim that all of this would have been part of some grand and meticulously considered plan? A far more credible explanation is that Trump makes decisions one at a time, pursues quick political wins, and then has to solve the problems he’s created himself. And yet we’ve been following Steve Witkoff’s and Jared Kushner’s negotiations with Russia for months as if there were a coherent plan behind them for ending the Ukraine war and arranging European security.
Why do we keep trying to find more consistency in Trump’s actions than his decisions actually show?ington must be kept in good shape even during the Trump era, but the task of the rest of public discourse is not to constantly invent new, benevolent explanations for his actions. We must assess actions, not imagined intentions. This leads to very practical conclusions for Finland. Our own defense must withstand a situation where U.S. aid is delayed or falls short of expectations. We need enough weapons, ammunition, and air defense, as well as European capacity to produce them. At the same time, cooperation with Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Britain, Poland, and the Baltic states must be deepened. Northern European defense must function even when political support from Washington wavers. Support for Ukraine must also not depend on Trump’s decisions. Europe must be able to supply weapons, fund Ukraine’s defense, and maintain economic pressure on Russia on its own. We must accept that Trump is willing to compromise on European security to secure a political win for himself. Therefore, Finland’s security cannot be built on the assumption that there is ultimately some ingenious plan behind Trump’s decisions that will turn out to Europe’s advantage.
Some Republicans Reject Trump’s Move to Import Diesel Fuel From Russia
The New York Time reports Some Republicans Reject Trump’s Move to Import Diesel Fuel From Russia
President Trump’s announcement of a deal with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to import Russian diesel has drawn criticism from some Republicans running in the most competitive midterm races, as the party grasps for ways to contain soaring energy prices.
The president announced the arrangement, which undercuts U.S. sanctions on Moscow, under pressure to rein in the surging price of diesel. The product’s cost has climbed because of the war with Iran, which has clogged a vital oil-shipping corridor, and high energy prices have become a severe campaign liability for Republican candidates in the midterms.
But the campaigns of two Republicans running in pivotal Senate races — former Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan and Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska — expressed disapproval of the deal with Russia. And other Republicans running in competitive Senate and House races had little to say about the agreement, which Mr. Trump trumpeted Friday on social media as a “very big and important” deal, claiming it would swiftly bring down energy costs.
“It’s a grave error by the president,” said Representative Don Bacon, a Nebraska Republican from a battleground district who is not running for re-election. “People realize that the sanctions on Russia are appropriate when Russia’s invading a country and bombing cities at night.”
Mr. Bacon predicted the deal would have little effect on soaring diesel prices but would offer a victory for one of America’s adversaries. And the congressman said that the agreement would not help Republican candidates. “It looks desperate,” he said.
It looks desperate because it is desperate.
Lindsey Graham Sanctions Bill
Trump claimed he could stop the war in Ukraine on day one. Where is that idea?
This decision to buy Russian diesel will not do anything to lower prices here. But it will give Russia hard currency to prolong the war.
Three weeks ago Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia Sanctions Bill to put an economic stranglehold on Putin.
Now Trump announces we’re importing diesel from Russia.
He has no plan, no consistency, no morality, or any coherent thought process at any time.
If Trump wants to settle wars, he should be pressuring both sides, not just one.
Instead, it’s one spontaneous decision after another, on everything, often contradictory, interspersed by bragging how great he is at everything.
The American public is sick of this, and the Midterm Election will be the proof.
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Due to Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers, Yandex, Russia’s answer to google, had a 93% loss of function on Sunday. This powers all sorts of digital doings in Russia, in everyday life, alongside things like bots on our social media.
This, from Pyotr Kurzin;’s Global Gambit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNG29yf1bJQ
Yep, Russia closed neither its nor the Ulraine’s skies, since the latter fly into Russia at will and deny the former’s aircraft flying over.
This is a serious strike against maga influence bots
“Let’s get it on”
Meanwhile, The Saudis got hit hard as the region continues to fall into chaos.
This of course resulted in oil going three dollars higher as Trump fails at every level.
At what point will the Rapeublicans have the overwhelming pressure put on them to get this B grade actor out of office?
And of course, Trump is buddying up with his “how to be a dictator” mentor Putin and defying his own administrations sanctions on Russia.
Who does Trump work for?
Trump works for Israel.
Enough of the asinine Russiagate conspiracy theory. Trump could push The Button today and conspiracy theorists would insist that Biden/HRC/Harris would have pushed it sooner and better and besides that’s just what Putin wants.
Trump cultists would assure us that nuclear war was all part of a master plan.
When the Republicans take a big hit in the November elections.
FROM CATO INSTITUTE. ONE OF ONLY 2 MAJOR THINK TANKS THAT ARE ANTI AMERIKAN IMPERIALISM……WAR. Neither the domestic opposition nor Washington and its European Union allies behaved in that fashion. Instead, Western leaders made it clear that they supported the efforts of demonstrators to force Yanukovych to reverse course and approve the EU agreement or, if he would not do so, to remove the president before his term expired. Sen. John McCain (R‑AZ), the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, went to Kiev to show solidarity with the Euromaidan activists. McCain dined with opposition leaders, including members of the ultra right-wing Svoboda Party, and later appeared on stage in Maidan Square during a mass rally. He stood shoulder to shoulder with Svoboda leader Oleg Tyagnibok.
But McCain’s actions were a model of diplomatic restraint compared to the conduct of Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs. As Ukraine’s political crisis deepened, Nuland and her subordinates became more brazen in favoring the anti-Yanukovych demonstrators. Nuland noted in a speech to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation on December 13, 2013, that she had traveled to Ukraine three times in the weeks following the start of the demonstrations. Visiting the Maidan on December 5, she handed out cookies to demonstrators and expressed support for their cause.
The extent of the Obama administration’s meddling in Ukraine’s politics was breathtaking. Russian intelligence intercepted and leaked to the international media a Nuland telephone call in which she and U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffey Pyatt discussed in detail their preferences for specific personnel in a post-Yanukovych government. The U.S‑favored candidates included Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the man who became prime minister once Yanukovych was ousted from power. During the telephone call, Nuland stated enthusiastically that “Yats is the guy” who would do the best job.
Nuland and Pyatt were engaged in such planning at a time when Yanukovych was still Ukraine’s lawful president. It was startling to have diplomatic representatives of a foreign country—and a country that routinely touts the need to respect democratic processes and the sovereignty of other nations—to be scheming about removing an elected government and replacing it with officials meriting U.S. approval.
Washington’s conduct not only constituted meddling, it bordered on micromanagement. At one point, Pyatt mentioned the complex dynamic among the three principal opposition leaders, Yatsenyuk, Oleh Tyahnybok, and Vitali Klitschko. Both Pyatt and Nuland wanted to keep Tyahnybok and Klitschko out of an interim government. In the former case, they worried about his extremist ties; in the latter, they seemed to want him to wait and make a bid for office on a longer-term basis. Nuland stated that “I don’t think Klitsch should go into the government. I don’t think it’s necessary.” She added that what Yatseniuk needed “is Klitsch and Tyanhybok on the outside.”
As I keep saying Trump has loads of blood on his hands in this war. If he had put pressure on Russia with as much vigour as he seems to hate Zelinsky we could well have had a cease fire ages ago.
That does not mean giving loads of weapons which would likely just escalate the conflict, but it definitely does mean do not invite a war criminal to the G20.
He seems to think of it as a game while thousands of young soldiers are dying on both sides. This war has a run rate of about 130k military deaths per year whereas Vietnam was about 70k. While America was directly responsible for the latter I see the US increasingly responsible for the former with Trump’s encouragement.
Wasn’t the previous administration “putting pressure” on Russia? So far every sanctions package since 2014 seems to have fallen short of its stated purpose while producing side-effects that can be profitably exploited (e.g. shadow fleets and “alternative logistics”). Perhaps the goal is less important than the process.
Same for “war criminals”. In 1946 they were hung shortly after being convicted. Blabbering too much about “war criminals” devalues the whole notion. Few years down the road, no one will care.
Agree half hearted sanction are often a complete waste of time. However it is possible to put a lot more pressure on and effectively cut off a country. We didn’t really go very far at all due to worries about European energy supplies – perosnally I think that Europe should have been prepared to take more of a hit.
Also agree the term “war criminals” and “terrorist” are widley used and the terms become meaningless. However in this case it was the ICC which issued a warrant and the trgigger was about essentially kidnapping children.
I don’t think the ICC would have issed a warrant for simply invading a country. This was about very specific behaviour.
From my perspective he should pile the pressure on the corrupt Nazi bastards in Kiev….and cut all aid to Ukraine. Let the bloodthirsty Brits pay for it. Lie of the day from Burnham…..Russia interfered with Brexit election…..is that why they had two?
Ahh good, I see that the Yandex data centre is back up and running.
Just because someone is not a foaming at the mouth neocon does mean they work for Russia.
So what pressure do you have in mind? Be specific and concrete.
Trump once again ignoring the law
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/6968
Only fools ever took Trump seriously. There never was any method to his madness – only an endless stream of BS to cover up the fact that he always was an incompetent con man. Now that the demential is kicking in even his usual BS is incoherent.
Wasn’t calling Trump’s moves four dimensional the original admission by MAGA that Trump had no clue what he was doing?
It was a modern substitute for claiming Trump was a magic wizard or divine figure, but in any event one who should receive the tail-wagging fealty a dog gives an abusive master.
What a whiney prick Trump is….these wars cited for the most part are not wars, but border skirmishes. A weak man with a weak mind….
Not only are tanker insurance rates VERY costly ($1 mil+ a DAY), but as the tankers get taken out the global tanker fleet gets ever more precarious.
F’ Trump’s bald-faced lie about there being a Russian/Ukraine ceasefire. Caligula 2.0 doesn’t know an honest word EVER.
https://twitter.com/i/status/2108970497686020544
Correct. The world is literally running short of tankers to transfer oil and refined products because: 1. many have been damaged since February, 2. high insurance costs have made some tankers uneconomical to run, 3. sanctions have forced some tankers to idle, 4. Strikes on Russian export facilities have idled many Russian tankers which were waiting at those facilities
One nation in Asia just paid $36/gallon just to move a tanker full from the ME to SE Asia.
The curious lack of pro Russia trolls here in a Russia related thread may be related to today’s Ukrainian strike on a Yandex data center. I read reports elsewhere that pro Russia English language posts have fallen precipitously on other websites today. https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1x35fx8/ua_pov_bots_hello_is_anybody_in_here/
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-ukraine-intensifies-bombing-of-yandex-data-centers-in-response-to-moscows-strikes-on-kyiv-data-centers
Interesting, I saw a YT post by Denys Davydov with all the Russians crying about how nothing could be done in Russia due to the Yandex outage.
Living near data centers has serious risks! But the Ukrainians get the targeting information and weapons from the US, so Putin is making deals to sell diesel to his enemy’s enabler?
WTF?
Enough of the asinine conspiracy theories.
Not a theory, observed
Trump more and more epitomizes the Dunn-Kruger effect: Some people are so dumb they will never be able to figure out that they are dumb. But Dunn-Kruger seems to have a MAGA corollary: Some people are so dumb that they will never be able to figure out that Trump is dumb as a rock.
I was in Ukraine quite a bit before the war, back then everyone I met told me that Zelensky was a disaster because he was the most corrupt President that Ukraine had ever had, which if you understand how corrupt Ukraine is is quite a brag. The guy ran on an anti-corruption peace-at-any-cost platform, and delivered the opposite. “Servant of the People”. Quite Trump like when you think about it.
So like Trump but with a brain and when did he attack russia again?
Zelenskii was elected, over vociferous American objections (the American ambassador openly campaigned for his opponent), on a platform of peace and reconciliation with Russia, including fulfilling Ukraine’s obligations under Minsk-2 (which it never did, and which Poroshenko, Hollande and Merkel all stated was a sham from the outset).
As soon as he was elected, the American ambassador summoned the little twerp and he immediately changed his tune.
I lived much of my adult life in Ukraine.
Trump does not care about being a good or bad president. He cares about retaining power.
Imo we are entering a time where the very wealthy and corporations control vastly more than they used to. The key is they keep everyone else squabbling about this and that. While putin can call musk trump can call putin etc etc. Wealthy can get on a g4 fly anywhere and not go through customs. Etc.
From what mr global says looks like the war is continuing on without Trump and media coverage.
Trump cares about his narcissistic supply. Meaning are people paying him attention or not. I think he started Iran because we were coming into a quiet period earlier on this year, no one was paying him attention and he thought he could topple Iran quickly, another Venezuela. He’s going to wait until after the mid terms to have another go at Iran because that’s what suits him personally, that’s when the rallies stop and he’d otherwise be starved of attention.
corporate america loves this. the weaker the government, the more power they have. end stage capitalism demands a state that is subservient to the corporations, not the people.
The republic must represent corporations, not people. This is litteral.
But technically, because corporations are considered human beings by American law, I guess the republic is still a representation by the people.
My brain hurts.
” … Trump moans again about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Such insecurity and desperation. Trump lives in a Potemkin, emperor-with-no-clothes universe. He is most manipulated by people flattering him, even if cynically. Or just forking over funny money. What he trades away for that is astonishing.
Nah it’s not insecurity, it’s his competitor instinct. Obama got a nobel prize (for dubious reasons) and so Trump wants one too. Trump wants to eclipse and humiliate Obama, he is scarily obsessed with him, as his public comments clearly show.
Don’t forget he will blame the Fed for interest rates (absurd as that is), and personalize it to Kevin Warsh.
Am I missing something? Why would blaming the Fed for interest rates be absurd exactly?
Because the bond market is jacking up interest rates on long-duration bonds all by itself, and the Fed is behind the curve and ineffective.
ICC , International Criminal Court is preparing to charge for –
Would love it if this is happening, but I can’t find any info on it
Source?
Stop kidding yourself. The ICC will do no such thing.
Increasingly, it looks like Trump‘s left hand/brain doesn’t know what the right hand/brain is doing. If this ends up as a 25th amendment problem, it will be America that will have “to get a new president.”
“If Trump wants to settle wars, he should be pressuring both sides, not just one.”
Looks like Trump heard you. Trump claims the Ukies and the Russkies have agreed to an energy ceasefire. Maybe this could lead to a further cooling off. Doubtful but at least a step in the right direction.
Trump claims Ukraine and Russia have agreed to energy ceasefire
“Trump claims” sorry I quit reading there
People mostly don’t know Ukraine transited and even imported Russian gas and oil for several years into the war until 2025, paying and receiving payment from Gazprom. War is just for the little people, no one cares about them or their lives.
Seeing’s believing where this asinine prick is concerned. Zelensky is an obstacle to peace….send the CIA killers in to assassinate him.
Every three days the Ukrainians blow up a Russian refinery. Putin has asked Russian business owners like Don Jr., Jared, and Witkoff to defend their properties.
Appears the taco is sucking up once again to his mentor, putin.
derp
When I immediately considered your point: “One deal at a Time” producing “bragging rights” in so many words – – something occurred to me.
My father-in-law was in a building business himself (Commercial). IT WAS ONE DEAL at a time, in effect, esp. if it was a $90 Million deal (which I helped him on with my background in Contract Law – – I was on the “closing part” of these deals – – and I think that Trump being in business thinks in those linear terms.
I DUNNO, just speaking out loudly here.
We would all be infinitely poorer if we confined ourselves to fragmented, singular contracts, without developing relationships and such related things as good faith dealings, and good reputation.
Of all people, genuine business people understand that.
Trump is right, but doing this for election results too. He can halt our intelligence to Ukraine including our CIA, but he won’t. Trump speaks with a forked tongue and Putin knows it.
The esteemed geopolitical commentator (see him on You Tube) John Mersheimer correctly stated that Trump’s bombing of Iran is one of the biggest catastrophe’s of American foreign policy. Unbelievable. This moron runs on less wars, but bends the knee to Israel and does their bidding. Epstein??? The control that the Jewish Zionist lobby has on America needs to end. They are creating all kinds of problems between American and nations in the Middle East. We had no problems with the Middle East until the creation of Israel and the genocide of the Palestinian people. Even JFK discussed this and I’m willing to 100 bucks they had some role in the killing of our President. Also, they attacked the USS LIberty and the state of Israel should have been wiped off the map for killing AMERICAN soldiers. They are a criminal entity!
I think it’s a positive that Trump said Zelensky needs to go. He’s a dictator and has prevented any elections from taking place. He will most likely flee to Israel (Zelensky is Jewish and Israel is good at protecting their own from all kinds of crime like pedophilia, spying, financial scams, etc) so good chance he goes there.
Trump is not right. Lee Harvey Oswald, all on his own, decided to shoot the President. Zelensky is not a dictator.
Bullshit. The Ukrainian Nazi’s are going down. You Banderists are going to get terminated.
BULLSCHITT.
Ah, the Russian propaganda bots have joined the party!
“Whoever doesn’t agree with me is a bot”
Yes, Zelenskii is a dictator.
BULLSCHMITT.
Wow, that’s profound. I lived much of my life in Ukraine. My friends there fear the secret police.
And with good reason.
Trup soeaks with forked tongue, but the Russian leadership keeps falling for it, over and over.
The Russian leadership hasn’t yet had a true (high-cost) field test of Trump “agreements.” Since Congress just passed a pro-Ukraine package, they prefer Trump.
What is a “pro-Ukraine package”?
What about Putin and the killing of Navalny and other political opponents? Is that not dictatorship?
Navalny, the guy who never got even 2% of the votes, or about 10x less than the Communist Party? The guy whom the Kremlin poisoned with the most potent poison ever in his underwear, yet survived, thanks to the Kremlin flying him to Germany for treatment? If the Kremlin was trying to kill Navalny, that was quite a hesitant hit!
I would recommend to read Philips Obrien’s substack this week, where he lays bare just how much Trump is outing himself as a Russian asset with this ‘deal’ – where in the past he tried to pay lip-service to helping Ukraine, he now has no qualms about condemning them for this war: surely there must be enough opposition to this in the US to raise some resistance? Any moral outrage?
I don’t think of Trump so much as a Russian asset, as a completely selfish impulsive ass-hat.
You gotta think Russia/Putin has something on Trump in order to entice Trump to be up Putin’s ass on every major issue. When it comes to Russia Trump would not say shit if he had a mouthful.
People do not think critically at all. Did Putin want Trump to attack Iran (a strategic trading partner with long ties to Russia)? Did Trump stop the war day 1 he retook office? We’re at day 629 and we’re still backing Ukraine with intelligence and weapons (sold/funneled through EU/NATO). Heck, the CIA worked with Zelensky to launch a drone attack on Putin’s Valdai residence while he was on a phone call with Trump. And what about Anchorage? The war has continued every day since, with no concessions from either side.
Ha Ha.
LOL
Prices of diesel are not the fault of Donnie’s pompous Persian prance.
No. It’s all Zelensky’s fault !!
And Vlad is playing along, testing whether the moron controls his own government enough to just manage the sale of a jerry can of diesel.
Any chance of getting Ukrainians to off the Z-coke-man increases the chances of sane people in Kiev that would prefer co-operation to suicide while in thrall to the Banderite death cult.
Color me skeptical, but where is Russia getting this diesel from? I’m sure they need alot for their war effort, and Ukraine has been destroying /damaging Russian refineries and other oil to fuel infrastructure for quite sometime now.
My understanding is that in the wholesale market diesel can be sold in barrels or metric tons. Trump used “tons” so ill assume he means metric tons. One metric ton of diesel is about 310.8 gallons of diesel?
300,000 tons x 310.8 = 93.4 million gallons
500,000 tons x 310.8 = 255.4 million gallons
1,000,000 tons x 310.8 = 310.8 million gallons.
US produces 218 million gallons of diesel per day.
US consumes between 151 and 155 million gallons per day.
Due to the war, Russia currently exports about 6 to 8 million gallons of diesel per day.
Something ain’t mathing in Trump’s claim, but we all know he’s a compulsive liar so there’s that.
The expression…Bullshit Baffles Brains….describes most of what comes out of the Donald. Don’t get your Brain Baffled by taking Donald at his word. Russia,China and Iran already know completely what they are dealing with.
remember folks. what the ancient greeks and romans, taught everyone. democracy/republics work. donald trump and epstein folks blue and red team……..are perfect reflections of the majority of amerikans. simple yet ugly truths.
No. Russia is not short cash, and Putin is not out of money.
Russia outproduces the whole of NATO by a factor of 4 (according to Mark Rutte) in weapons and ordinance. It is not buying them, like the Europeans. This is a continuation of the mistake the geniuses made who thought they could crush Russia and reduce the ruble to rubble with the sanctions from hell. Events show the analysis was flawed — perhaps they do not understand economics?
The war will end when the former Ukraine capitulates.
The war will end in some kind of negotiated settlement after both sides run out of motivation (or a new US admin decides to really put their boot on Russia’s neck). The front line is static and will probably stay that way, drone-based defense against infantry (mechanized or not) is too easy to do right now, so even a badly outnumbered defender can make progress impossible. We’re seeing this in real time as front line movement stagnates.
Russian troops are 10 miles from Kramatorsk and Sloviansk and citizens in both cities are evacuating now. Yes it will take months to play out, but the writing is on the wall.
Wrong. After 4.5 years of war, Russia is unable to take 100% of the illegally annexed oblasts.
Here’s a map.
https://understandingwar.org/map/russian-forces-have-not-managed-to-seize-the-remaining-territory-in-the-four-illegally-annexed-oblasts-after-four-years-of-war-february-24-2026/
I saw a photo the other day of a Ukrainian man being handcuffed by Ukrainian army “recruiters” in order to be stuffed into a white van, armed, and sent to die for the Zelensky/Mindich/Tsukerman cabal. Two fat fighting-aged men wearing pigtails and black hats were standing there calmly watching, exempt from the draft.
Ukraine’s going to run out of men like the ones they’re drafting and when they do, the fat men with pigtails and black hats aren’t going to volunteer for combat, nor will they be conscripted.
Nope. Ukraine still hasn’t expanded their draft to include younger men. The age range is 25 to 60.
Yes, draft dodgers and deserters are arrested. That’s a standard wartime practice.
How do you know?
Russia does capitulations, if you read your history.
Negotiation has been tried for decades and end in hoaxes and trix
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Ukraine is running out of fodder, they’ve used up pensioners, drug addicts, the mentally retarded, the sick … and now they’re working on putting women into the trenches.
Russia hold all the cards.
Yes, the Uno cards! Just like Trump! So many Uno cards!
All Russia has are nuclear weapons and they will never use them. If Russia held all the cards the war would have ended years ago. Russia is having its ass handed to it by a country that it should have been able to beat easily. Russian soldiers do not have their heart and soul committed to this war and that is the main reason they are losing and likely will lose. The Russian people will eventually get rid of Putin as they don’t like losers. However, he will probably be replaced by another war criminal equally corrupt.
Putin still has overwhelming public support. The criticism directed toward him is why he has held back the military (which he has, but this is changing as Russia goes for the knockout blow)
nixon was asked about what he thought of the USSR crumbled in 1991, christmas eve. he said they would most likely get a Czar eventually. only took 8 years.
You seem to have forgotten about Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, Vietnam, etc. Russia has not been at this 20 years only to return the Nazi Banderite gang to power. Russia has nothing? But they are churning out interceptors and missiles at a 2-3 orders of magnitude greater than the US can, which has exhausted its ordinance in a few weeks against Iran.
Russian soldiers are a good deal more committed than the tens of thousands of kidnapped gang-pressed unfit for service males off the streets of Ukraine.
Obviously you are a Russian asset. Even if you are producing your own weapons they still cost money. paying Russian soldiers to fight is a huge sinkhole for cash. Nothing is produced and money goes out the window. If Russia is not short of money why are they telling oil companies that they have to protect their own infrastructure.
Everything costs money.
The US is Tr$40 in the hole, essentially they have run out.
How much do you think it costs to keep American soldiers.
Talk about huge sinkholes.
Nothing produced? Then how can they be outproducing all of NATO + America from Tallinn to San Diego?
Am I a Russian assett?
How much am I worth?
Any ideas on monetizing myself?
It will end when Putin is out of power and some sort of face saving compromise for the russians is reached. I think that will happen before the Russian overcome ukrainian resistance. At the pace they achieved in the last 5 years, it will be a few centuries before they occupy Ukraine fully. And at the current casualty rate there will be no Russian left for that.
Obviously you have no clue about HISTORY and how big Russia is. They don’t want to completely take over Ukraine. This is a ZUSI (Zionist United States of IsntReal) NATO war. They want NATO and the Neo-Nazi’s Ukraine govt OUT. Russia is also sending a message to the f***wits in the EU if they want war it will end real quick.
If Putin is out, someone less moderate & cautious will take over.
Putin is thinking a lot about how to save face — for America & NATO.
He is trying to keep this war from turning into a bigger conflagration.
It will not take centuries, Kyiv is running out of men and needs to kidnap and press gang unsuitable meat from the street. “To the last Ukrainian” the West keeps saying.
Russia has bogged down. They failed to establish air superiority.
Armor has turned ineffective in the face of drones.
Russia had to retreat from Kherson.
https://understandingwar.org/map/russian-forces-have-not-managed-to-seize-the-remaining-territory-in-the-four-illegally-annexed-oblasts-after-four-years-of-war-february-24-2026/
You are right in all counts and Russian voices rose asking for heads to roll in the Kremlin, yet not for the reasons you think, but for not being ruthless enough against the Ukrainian NATO proxy.
And of course it’s just another drop in the bucket of why you don’t ally with America. We do not have your back, we don’t even have your side half the time, and that’s assuming we didn’t forget we were friends to begin with.
Commitments? What, me worry?
Exactly. You listening Taiwan? Philippines?
Taiwan will have to plan its defense on its own. It should allow its citizens to be armed.
Canada
“To be an enemy of the United States is dangerous….to be a friend is fatal”
(attributed to Henry Kissinger)
Ukraine could not prosecute any kind of war without the CIA, US satellites, etc. When CIA chief Radcliffe told them to cease attacks during his Moscow visit, they did.
No emissions from Trump’s orifice signify anything other than the stench.
The Finnish guy is a blithering idiot. Has he never heard of the Kissinger quote about enemies and allies of the US?!
Ukraine just took out data centers that were used by russia to run bots. Let’s see who’s still around. MAGA morons, identify yourselves now if you want to be considered human.
“If Trump wants to settle wars, he should be pressuring both sides, not just one.” Not in this case. Ukraine is a U.S./NATO proxy, and yet we still pretend they have sovereignty when they have none when it comes to resources/intel to fight Russia. Trump cannot pressure Russia to end the war. Russia will end the war when the “root causes” which Putin has referred to are addressed, or when Ukraine poses no further threat to Russian security (including Crimea and the Donbas which will be entirely Russian).
You are being down-voted by people here who have NO idea why Putin is doing what he is doing.
So which is it? Ukraine has no resources to fight Russia, or is it still a threat to Russian security?
The doublethink is breathtaking
Obviously Ukraine has some resources to fight Russia:
* The weapons sent by U.S./EU/NATO
* The men and women who are press ganged and sent to the front lines w little training, in a futile attempt to hold the Donbas defensive line
Material support is already becoming much more difficult with the Black Sea blockade (water transport is much more effective than trains – which BTW have also been recently targeted by Russia). Zelensky understands what it means when the flow of weapons, intel, and money to keep the gov’t afloat stops. That’s why I say they are not sovereign.
whirlaway is also correct re: NATO use of Ukraine as a weapon. The whole idea was to weaken the Russian military and economy and provoke a political crisis. And if Ukraine were ever to be part of NATO, they could install weapon systems there to threaten Moscow directly.
Ukraine has managed to blitz Moscow with homemade drones powered by lawn mower engines.
No NATO needed
How do you think that those drones avoided radars and air defense in real time along hundreds of km inside Russian territory?
A few weeks ago, there was a report that Trump offered to sell arms to China.
Think that report was true.
If they get a new president, can we have the old one?
Ouch.
The sooner Zelensky gets booted the better. Then he can retire to his Miami mansion with his billions.
Trump papers over his own Iran failure by this. Just piling it all up.
Meanwhile Trump mulls US-Saudi intervention. The whole house of cards can crumble into more costly conflict on all sides.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/saudi-airport-attack-trump-us-join-fight-houthis-rcna602744
Any reminder that Lindsay Graham is dead is a good thing.
Mitch is close enough to the doorway that they still talk.
What they did to Mitch by dragging him out in public is elder abuse. Republicans don’t care about abusing minors, elders or their children.
The pubs let Kay Granger, a Texas US House rep, serve her last 6 months from a memory care facility.
i used to see ole strom around charleston. he was 100 and the us senator of the great state of SC.
Purchase of diesel from Russia isn’t a random flip-flop as the media reports. It accomplishes several things:
1.) Domestically it reduces trucking costs in the US, and helps Republicans in this election.
2.) It scares Europe into ramping up military spending faster and gets the US out of the European theater to free up military equipment for the middle east and China. Conservative parties are now polling better in Europe, so Europe can sustain a stalemate between Ukraine and Russia on its own.
3.) Diesel that goes to the West does not go to China for manufacturing in general, and by extension to its military. The US is attempting to separate Russia and China a little bit. Things are heating up in the Pacific Rim.
Europe cannot sustain anything for long, perhaps even within their own borders as the energy/economic crisis deepens. We could see leaders being overthrown soon, if not through elections, by force. BTW, Ukraine is hardly a stalemate – the country is on the verge of collapse and Russia is making preparations for taking Kiev.
The U.S. will not be able to separate Russia and China one whit. They will only deepen cooperation from here, fully understanding that we are a common enemy.
Russia has been making preparations to take Kiev for a decade. They had to retreat from Kherson and Kharkiv.
Now they just had to retreat from Lyman.
It’s a stalemate, and Ukraine hasn’t even begun to conscript 18-to-24 year olds.
Diesel from Russia is unlikely to make it to American pumps before the election
No? It’s only 2 days off the East coast.
But that’s not the point, which is perceptions management.
You think Russian diesel can get to US markets in 2 days?
Enough said.
And voter perceptions here are driven by what they pay at the pump now – not what they hope may happen in the far away future if/when Russia releases 3M tons of diesel months/years from now
A shipment of Russian diesel to the United States typically takes 20–35 days by sea under normal conditions.
Multiple grounded sources confirm that the tanker Minerva Zen departed St. Petersburg on September 22 carrying ~280,000 barrels of diesel and gasoil. It has already crossed the Atlantic and is now 48–72 hours from the U.S. East Coast.
Interesting that the shipment left on September 22 and the “deal” was announced now.
And how much of an impact will 280,000 barrels from Russia have?
Current distillate inventories in the US sit at 107 million barrels, which is 8.6% below average. A shipment of 280,000 barrels represents 0.26% of inventory.
The US is currently exporting 1.5 -1.7 million barrels per day. So 280k barrels of import from Russia is equivalent to 4 or 5 HOURS of US exports.
This deal is essentially meaningless, and cannot possibly impact diesel prices in the US. But that doesn’t matter to Trump, who will say and do anything to promote himself while screwing over others.
Good to see you back Dave, thanks for the clarification on Russian diesel. Sounds like more Trump propaganda to keep the markets pumped up.
Would love to get your take on oil flows in the Middle East these days, certainly a lot going on in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, and the East-West pipeline between them!
Thanks. We have been busy travelling a lot lately. Though I pop in for a read occasionally.
Regarding the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, oil flows are still below pre-war levels though there seems to be more vessels getting through in the last two months. Rumours are that Iran is being paid substantial fees to allow some vessels through. And that some of the tankers from other countries may be carrying Iranian oil. Hard to know what is real.
Regardless, as long as SPRs and other oil inventories keep being drawn down globally, it implies that a shortage of oil still persists.
Of course, the bigger problem at the moment is the loss of refinery output in Russia and the Persian Gulf. Add in refinery restrictions in China and the world is drawing down fuel inventories, particularly diesel.
Trump is saying what he can to try to bring diesel prices down (red dye diesel, Russian diesel, possible diesel export restrictions), but there isn’t anything he can do that will solve the global refinery problem unless he stops both wars.
Diesel prices will remain under upward pressure till the wars end or the global economy collapses.
Thanks Papa, great to have you back. The knowledge you share of the oil market is greatly appreciated!
Thanks radar.
Really appreciate your sharing your knowledge on this subject, thanks again!
Thanks Papa Dave always appreciate your comments. Kind of remind me of what my dad,would have said if he was still here!!
Thanks Patty.
Exactly. Trump is shifting blame to Zelensky for diesel scarcity and he is proving to the voter [so he thinks] that he will reverse Z-man’s deleterious influence on the global diesel market to protect American truckers & farmers by admitting a ship with “cheap” Russian diesel. It’s all incantation.
Yes. Trump always looks for someone to blame for his own mistakes. Which is why he is incapable of learning from his many mistakes. He doesn’t think he makes any. The fault lies elsewhere.
Two more years of stupidity still ahead.
Recent update on the Minerva Zen. Apparently it is not carrying diesel at all, as first reported. It is carrying Urea, used for fertilizer.
I think Trump really believes he is deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize. It is hard to imagine a more delusional leader.
He also believes he’s intelligent.
What does that say about the American people, who made him their leader?!
Don’t accuse all of us here. I DO NOT VOTE. Voting here is ALWAYS a choice between a turd and a piece of shit.
And, Biden was a DEAD-BRAINED TURD and TRUMP is a Nincompoop-Brained Piece of shit.
Blinken was evil.
Almost half of the voters picked Harris. What does that say about MAGA, Republicans and disillusioned others? What does it say about American media? What does that say about the intelligence of Americans? Can any human, anywhere, be worse than anyone still supporting trump and his regime?
#dunningkruger
This part of his Truth Social post is hilarious
Didn’t Obozo receive his and he help start TWO wars. The Ukraine and Syrian war. The Nobel “Peace Prize is a real joke.
obama got his for nothing. just winning the potus. obama also got our CIA involved in helping to flip ukraine election in 2014. kind of the start of the war.
I got thumbs down for telling the tooth. The world needs real leaders not con men. The last 28 years have been total disaster.
Trump has started more wars than he has ended. Iran seems to be at war with the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, UAE, Kuwait, and Oman That is seven wars he has started. Then you have the invasion of Venezuela and the threats to sovereignty of Canada, Greenland, and Panama. Plus he continues to support Putin who is a war criminal. The only prize he might qualify for is war monger of the year.
I agree. He’s a wackadoodle like Biden.
This is really a great post Mish!
The Finnish comment that Trump is unreliable and can’t be counted on as an ally is certainly an understatement
If Trump wanted a new president in Ukraine, he need only call the CIA director.
Similarly, “Ukraine” supplies nothing other than cover and warm live bodies. Russia is being played for fools again.
Putin understands the game. Russia has the leverage, and Putin has authorized new levels of escalation, even bringing back “General Armageddon”. They are taking out the bridges, the gas stations, all the remaining energy infrastructure, and have a total blockade in force in the Black Sea. This winter is going to be brutal for Ukraine, and we’ll start to see major territorial moves as the remaining Donbas defenses collapse.
Putin may have General Armageddon but Trump has Major Disaster
If you can’t conquer territory without completely destroying it, and you end up with smoking rubble and no people, what’s the point? I mean, both countries already have shrinking populations and are basically dirt poor.
Basically zero Ukrainians will stick around to find out how they’re treated by Russia, supposing there’s some actual front line movement at some point (and the trend is toward stasis).
Nobody wins here, no matter who “wins”. It’s been a giant waste of millions of lives and probably many trillions of dollars of infrastructure and productivity.
There are more refugees from Ukraine in Russia than in any other country.
I lived much of my adult life in Ukraine. Lots.of Ukrainians support Russia, but fear the secret police.
I’ve met several Ukrainian refugees. None of them support Russia.
In Amsterdam’s red light district?
Both are right, that’s why there’s been a civil war in the Ukraine since 2012 and why Russia took one side in 2022.
I call bullshit, but kudos on gaslighting at such a high level.
I’m a math teacher, and personally know at least a dozen refugees whose kids I teach. They would prefer death to living under Russian authority.
If there was meaningful support for Russia, they would have successfully overrun the whole country in the 3-4 days they thought they would, right? How did that work out?
I don’t think you get how much people don’t like having schools and hospitals and apartment buildings randomly bombed.
According to UNHCR, as of mid-2024, over 1,223,000 Ukrainian refugees moved to Russia. Fewer than a quarter of a million moved to the USA. Do the math.
Not sure where you lived there. As you know Ukraine is a diverse country, making it hard to generalize. Many places in the East and South are predominantly Russian speaking, including cities like Odessa, and Kharkiv (the country’s second-largest city). Life in Lviv is very different.
Most people I have talked to just want the war to end ASAP.
The problem is the West wants to continue using Ukrainians as a battling ram, but many there are too stupid to get this through their heads. Their cemeteries are packed and they’ve lost millions too through exodus. I see nothing good gonna happen there unless Russia takes it over and sifts out the Nazi’s. Then, there will be peace. Problem is Russia doesn’t really want to control. the whole country. Poland and Romania have their eyes on Western Ukraine because they have their groups of people in those areas like the Russians did in eastern areas of Ukraine. It’s possible that Ukraine may cease to exist as a country and be gobbled up by Eastern European countries and Russia. Ukrainians need to wake up! Give Zelensky the Mussolini treatment and all the vermin that are like him.
my good old pal from odessa hates ukraine with a passion. he’s a jew and a pharmacist in brooklyn. he said they were nazis. his words. look at the map of speakers of russian……..will tell you a great deal. what a stupid war and stupid country.
Of course, as a jew from Odessa hates the Ukraine. All pogroms in the Russian Empire took place in Western Ukraine, until the greatest one in Odessa.
No people in the land you conquer is a wet dream for the conquerer. It means no uprisings from conquered populations and makes it easy to settle your own population there to exploit the resources.
That isn’t Putin’s fault. If the Ukrainians hadn’t chosen to systematically mistreat their Russian-speaking population, none of this would have started. No doubt the Ukrainians were encouraged in their vicious course of action by American businessmen who were trying to increase their own control of the whole Russian sphere of influence.
The Ukraine does need a new president, preferably one who is Ukrainian rather than Jewish. I suppose to Zelensky, dead Russians and dead Ukrainians are both positives.
That is straight Russian propaganda that you posted.
Victoria Nuland is on sabbatical.
People criticize trump as being too “transactional.” But that is too kind. He is just a con man.
I don’t need to get into the wisdom of the Ukraine conflict, to see this.
The USA has certainly thrown people under the bus. It is typical for us politically to grow disenchanted with a movement (Southern Reconstruction, 1919 Versailles treaty and League of Nations, Vietnam, Iraq), and turn away, leaving others to pick up pieces. But this guy cynically wallows in it every day, in every way, with our name on it. It is as much his brand, as is his name.
There is no person, deal, promise or principle Trump won’t discard in the blink of an eye, for his personal convenience. This is the model of the person who should be rejected by all. It is pathological. .
We are going to need monster truck tires on that bus!