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Friday's deal between Trump and Putin wasn't only about diesel. It was also about Kyiv.
Hours after Zelensky accused Washington of using Ukraine's negotiators as a "smokescreen" for a backroom deal with Moscow, Axios reported that Trump decided to let Russia sell diesel after Zelensky ignored half a dozen US requests to stop attacking Russian oil refineries. The alleged source was a US official with direct knowledge, who did not hold back:
"Zelensky is misreading the room. By continuing to hit refineries, he is eroding the good will that he has built with Trump over the last six months."
In other words, the sanctions waiver was as much a message to Kyiv as a gift to Moscow. So how did we get to this latest geopolitical twist, what is Trump actually ggetting for lifting sanctions (spoiler: less than nine days of fuel), and why is the deal is on a collision course with the one Ukrainian policy Kyiv says it won't give up. Thus Zelensky is about to learn there is a price for trying to twist Trump's arm.
It now looks as though both Putin and Trump have had enough of The Poisonous Pixie With The Piano Playing Plonker and his insane antics. Putin revealed his patience had run out last week when he announced Russia will weaponise winter against Kiev by knocking out its energy infrastructure and now Trump has turned on the Ukrainian leader over his constant provocations of Russia.
Reports from inside Ukraine suggest a mood swing among citizens as fraud scandals in government and unpopular policies like military conscription fail to move the country closer to a peace deal.
As he was boarding Air Force One on the way to Tennessee this morning, President Trump made his feelings clear over how he feels about Ukrainian President Zelensky.
President Trump stated that "it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president", criticizing Zelensky for bombing Russian oil refineries and accusing him of failing to end the war.
"You know what I suggest? I suggest they get a new leader who could make a deal because he could've made many deals and for some reason he never does... I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new President," Trump is quoted as saying.
One day after announcing plans to buy more than a million tonnes of diesel from Russia, Trump said the Ukrainian strikes were driving up global fuel prices and creating “problems for the world”.
“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. And we told them ‘Do whatever you want, but don’t hit the diesel fuel, because this is a big problem, a big shortage’.”
“And what does he do? He goes and hits the diesel fuel.”
So WTF is going on with the crazy Ukronazis? Do they really want peace or do they just want the rest of the world to keep providing cash, weapons and ammunition so that they can commit national suicide by keeping on killing Russians?
Well as this blog has reported many times Zelensky and his corrupt cronyarchy have sabotaged every peace initiative in the past four years, which speaks for itself ...
comment by cynic, lifted from Moon of Alabama
From the point of view of us spectators we look at this war in terms of territory won / lost, whose weapons are superior and who can cause the most impressive damage to the other side. To many in the third world, Russia is our champion and we want them to put west and NATO in it’s place.
From the POV of the Russian leadership they are facing a foe with 7 times the population and 20 times the economic might. The Russians may have a geographic advantage and a nuclear arsenal to fall back on but from the Russians perspective have only just recovered from a century of civil war, communist tyranny, 2 world wars, a cold war and a decade long economic depression. In just the last world war they lost 27 million souls and a country that was absolutely devastated.I’m sure the Russians will fight WW3 if they have to and they may not win but they’ll make sure no one else does either
I suspect they are tired of fighting wars, mourning losses and rebuilding their country. It costs nothing to talk. If they can cleave away the USA from supporting a NATO war with Russia by offering them partnerships on energy deals to the EU or by selling them assets stranded by sanctions good for them. Talk doesn’t cost lives and stranded assets don’t benefit the investor so if they can get rid of them and raise capital regardless of what we/they think of the buyer … good for them … they can wash their hands of it and get on to other business.
So chunk by chunk, the assets of Russia would fall into the insatiable claws of mainly US-based predators most of the worst of which happen to belong to the same cult as their mafia Oligarch equivalents in Russia and Ukraine. NATO is the US-empire. Keep buying it off till there’s no more left to sell? And what then?
This logic is very akin to that of the neoliberal capitalist ideology. As if the world is nothing more than a lousy set of corrupt “businesses” and absolutely everything in it (Oligarchs of course excepted) is no more than a disposable object branded with for-sale price tag.Praise be to the shit-filled economist-priestly class of monopoly-capitalism and the Masters their fantasy drivel serves!
“Talk” certainly does cost lives. For instance, plenty in Donbas from eight years of EU lies and US connivance in support of the Kiev regime and its blatantly Nazi, Oligarch-created militias.
And now Putin — a tool of the dual-passport Chabad mafia Oligarchs based in Russia, who was tasked as successor to YI suspect they are tired of fighting wars, mourning losses and rebuilding their country. It costs nothing to talk. If they can cleave away the USA from supporting a NATO war with Russia by offering them partnerships on energy deals to the EU or by selling them assets stranded by sanctions good for them. Talk doesn’t cost lives and stranded assets don’t benefit the investor so if they can get rid of them and raise capital regardless of what we/they think of the buyer … good for them … they can wash their hands of it and get on to other business. ***
So chunk by chunk, the assets of Russia would fall into the insatiable claws of mainly US-based predators ….. most of the worst of which happen to belong to the same cult as their mafia Oligarch equivalents in Russia and Ukraine. NATO is the US-empire. Keep buying it off till there’s no more left to sell? And what then?
Your logic is very akin to that of the neoliberal capitalist ideology. As if the world is nothing more than a lousy set of corrupt “businesses” and absolutely everything in it (Oligarchs of course excepted) is no more than a disposable object branded with for-sale price tag.Praise be to the shit-filled economist-priestly class of monopoly-capitalism and the Masters their fantasy drivel serves!
And don’t forget that every one of the aforementioned toxic cult imagines itself to be a greater or lesser Oligarch, having been divinely promised 2,800 slaves … these slaves being the ordinary-(allegedly sub)human survivors of the final conflicts via which the Oligarchy intends to make its own status permanent.
“Talk” certainly does cost lives. For instance, plenty in Donbas from eight years of EU lies and US connivance in support of the Kiev regime and its blatantly Nazi, Oligarch-created militias.
And now Putin — a tool of the dual-passport Chabad mafia Oligarchs based in Russia, who was tasked as successor to Yeltsin to preserve the wealth of these Oligarchs facing competition from bigger US/NATO based Oligarchs expanding too much into their patch — is happy to sell-out Russian assets to US-based interests via his own Chabad mafia minder, to the benefit of the US Chabad mafia (including the Trump/Kushner clan) … and even effectively supply fuel to the NATO military forces that are killing real Russians in Russia, thereby weakening heavily sanctioned Russia’s position while stabbing Iran and anti-Zionist Yemen in the back.
Of course the Oligarchs will profit from that, just as from earlier transfers of warfare-related titanium etc.
How many more “it’s ever so clever” excuses are going to be made for the antics of the Putin regime?
Interesting how it all involves, on both supposedly opposing sides, one particularly megalomanic cult.
Which makes no secret of wanting most of Ukraine for itself, as the new (Israel Mk.2) Khazaria.
Yet so many analysts of the situation deliberately ignore such very real vectors of influence at the top.
Why?eltsin to preserve the wealth of these Oligarchs facing competition from bigger US/NATO based Oligarchs expanding too much into their patch — is happy to sell-out Russian assets to US-based interests via his own Chabad mafia minder, to the benefit of the US Chabad mafia (including the Trump/Kushner clan) … and even effectively supply fuel to the NATO military forces that are killing real Russians in Russia, thereby weakening heavily sanctioned Russia’s position while stabbing Iran and anti-Zionist Yemen in the back.
Of course the Oligarchs will profit from that, just as from earlier transfers of warfare-related titanium etc. How many more “it’s ever so clever” excuses are going to be made for the antics of the Putin regime?
Interesting how it all involves, on both supposedly opposing sides, one particularly megalomanic cult.
Which makes no secret of wanting most of Ukraine for itself, as the new (Israel Mk.2) Khazaria.
Yet so many analysts of the situation deliberately ignore such very real vectors of influence at the top.
Why?
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Though Macron's recent posturing as a reincarnated Napoleon by calling on his fellow European leaders to send troops to fight alongside the Ukrainian military may have been nothing more than an ill - advised attempt to deflect attention from online conspiracy theories that his wife Brigitte is, or was at some time in the past, a man, the ploy, if that is what it was, has backfired.
Total Defeat Of Ukraine By Russia Is Only A Matter Of Time
Financial Times columnist and founder member of the Vobblyvoddymyr Zelensky piano playing penis fan club, Gideon Rachman has a talent for stating the obvious which he displays in a recent article on the state of play in the Ukrainian conflict 'Ukraine and its backers need a credible path to victory - archived. As the Financial Times is behind a paywall with no monthly allocation of free articles, below is a sommary of the most importyant section:
Is The West About To Abandon Ukraine?
n a fresh interview with Germany's national television service ARD on Saturday (2 December,) NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned viewers to prepare for for more "bad news" from Ukraine. Asked for his opinion on whether the situation will worsen for Ukrainian as winter sets in, after the much hyped summer counteroffensive turned into a catastrophic failure he responded, "Wars develop in phases.
The War In Ukraine Is Entering A Significant Phase - SitRep
With all the other troubles in the world its easy to overlook the news from Ukraine which suggests that conflict is entering a a crucial phase as the western allies find it inceasingly difficult to keep up with Kiev's demands for cash, weapons and ammo. Big Serge has a rather long situation report on Substack and it will not make happy reading for the Zelensky fan club in the west:
Game Over For Zelensky - NATO andEU Officials Urge Ukraine To Seek Peace
As this blog predicted early last month, following the catastrophic failure of Ukraine's 'counter offensive' to push Russian troops out of their country, American and European leaders who have previously been solidly behind the doomed Ukrainian war with its powerful neighbour, are rapidly going cool on their pledges of unlimited support for puppet - president Zelensky and his far - right masters.
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Ukraine Too Corrupt To Join The EU Says Former EU Leader Juncker
Former EU Commission President and world class oenophile Jean-Claude Juncker, stated this week in unusually blunt terms that are perhaps a sign of the times, that Ukraine is not ready to join the EU due to its being "corrupt at all levels of society," the former European Commission president, said in unusually blunt language during an interview with Germany’s Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper this week.
There Is Only One Way Ukraine Can End The War
As Ukraine's much hyped counterattack has failed to achieved the and momentum that hoped for by American and NATO leaders including President Volodymyr Zelensky who admitted it was "slower than desired", and a range of soldiers interviewed by BBC and Sky News television reporters t on different parts of the long (probably too long given the depletion of Ukrainian military manpower,) frontline have blamed minefields laid by Russian troops for that delay. Well as is often said, in any wartruth is the first casualty.
Who Blew Up The Nordstream Pipeline
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Has Putin Has Pushed Europe Into Economic Depression, Hyperrinflation and Currency Collapse?
Though it was entirely predictable and indeed had been expected for some time, the news over the weekend that the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which feeds gas from Russia to northern Europe via The Baltic route had been shut down completely by The Kremlin in retaliation for the continued financial and military support given by NATO and EU member states to Ukraine in the conflict with Russia. The European Commission, governing body of the EU, immediately put the community on something close to a war footing, ...
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Is Russia Selling Its Oil To The World Through An Obscure Egyptian Port?
As this blog predicted when NATO and EU member states shot themselves in the foot by reacting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine with sanctions that prevented Russia from selling oil, gas and vital raw materials to the countries that needed them most, the NATO and EU member states, the Russians have had no problems finding alternative customers for their gas and oil and no problem getting oil into the world's commodity markets through the back door.
Jingoistic Western Triumphalism Will Not End The War In Ukraine Or Cripple Putin, But It Is Crippling Western Nations
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European Union Is Again Close To A Meltdown As Eurozone Economy Collapses
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Russian Long Range Missile Test Fuels Nuclear War Fears As NATO Pushed Ukraine To Escalate Conflict
Russia tested its latest intercontinental ballistic missile yeserday, the Satan II has a range of 10,000 miles and can devastate an area of 250,000 square kilometers according to military experts. Bizarrely commentators in mainsteam and online news services portrayed this as a sign of weakness by Russia, though the same people cheered when Joe (Dementiaman) Biden threratened a nuclear response if Russia crossed his 'red lines' in Ukraine ...
We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis
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Boris and Biden Can't Blame Ukraine War For Energy Crisis
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Even If The War In Ukraine Ends, Sanctions Will Stay - So How Bad Will The Food Crisis Get?
Western leaders, desperate to show their own countries they were taking a firm stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, were quick to impose economic sanctions ... so quick in fact that they acted before they had though things through. While freezing Russia out of the global finance system they have exacerbated the wests energy crisis, while Russia's retaliatory ban on raw materials (fertiliser) exports will create extra problems on top of those we already had ...
Europe's Depleted Gas Storage Might Not Get Refilled Ahead Of Next Winter
While mainstream news reporting of the conflict in Ukraine continues to pump out a torrent of anri - Russia, pro - war propaganda the catastropic effects of this war that could so easily have been avoided are not mentioned. Well why would warmongering governments admit they have inflicted an energy crisis, food shortages and soaring living costs on their people for no good reason ...
EU Vows To Retaliate if Nord Stream Gas Pipeline Blasts Were Sabotage - But against whom, the USA?
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