Depending on fossil fuels has its pecularities.

Isn't this like 2.3 million barrels? And the us uses 2.9 million barrels per day? My math might be off though

They make it sound like Russia is handing over the fuel. The "weak" have been holding off buying shit from Russia because it was a way of fucking Russia's economy. Trump just buckled.

de-escalating with another nuclear armed power is good. We shouldn't trust them, but we can't fight them because that means nuclear Armageddon

Yeah Foreign Policy geniuses couldn't believe anyone would be as stupid as Trump.

Why does no one ever ask Putin to de-escalate?

If your maths is off I don’t think it’s off by much - those figures look roughly correct. Drop in the ocean.

It's cool to turn your back on your allies.

That's what I thought too, 300.000 tons might sound like a lot but the US (not even including the global markets part of the post) use A LOT of fuel. It's quite literally a drop in the bucket

Yeah. Now Trump owes Putin yet another favor, for bailing his ass out of yet another hole he dug for himself.

Such "strength". Such "leadership". Lol!

There's a typo in your username, ThatGuyNamedIvan.

Good to know you don't care about dying in a nuclear war

So he pussied out on the sanctions for one day of fuel. Gret taktik, smert much!

These posters starting to look like north korean stuff.

You have to link sources when posting about politicians or famous people. I'll provide a link to a good source, but please remember to do that next time you post.

Zelenskyy furious as Trump announces deal to buy Russian diesel

No it doesn't, we've had sanctions on them for quite awhile now and there was no Armageddon. I think you're russian, tbh.

The US rejected Iran's recent 7-day offer to reopen hormouz aka provide cheap diesel to the world again on top of returning to peace, now add that to this news along with the recent military build up around Iran means the US and Israel are %100 going back to war with Iran again soon.

By the way, those sanctions only hurt the value of the US dollar.

Before the sanctions biden put on them, businesses based in russia could do international transactions in american dollars, which helped the US dollar have more value, because people needed to have some american dollars to do international transactions. Now international transactions between civilians in russia and another country are done in russian rubles.

Biden made russia stronger with the sanctions he signed off on. But I doubt he even knew what was going on around him most of the time, he had pretty severe dementia

Edit: And I'm not russian, I'm Swiss, if you must know

So, where was the Armageddon you spoke of?

They're all so unoriginal. Eagle this, god that, and always wearing Oakleys with a shitty goatee. Zero personality, just an empty shell full of fear and propaganda.

Oh and let's please appreciate that this isn't his first "highly succesful call with Vladimir Putin" (sheesh, he even added the first name in full. Truly a fan) by a long shot.

Drop in the ocean.

Damn that sounds cynical wrt USA's fossil fuel usage.

Foreign Policy geniuses

In the USA? Who's that?

Buckled for nothing and it won't even work because the sanctions were passed by Congress and even Roberts isn't that much of a partisan hack, yet.

The reason no one buys your bullshit is that you say things you think are convincing but forget that they're convincing to you because you're a simpleton.

furious

I dispute that. Way too clickbaity, but that's just the way of headlines these days.

The interview this is based on uses the word "exasperated" which I find much more fitting.

Trump won't repay favours, so that particular aspect isn't much of an issue.

thankfully it hasn't happened, but the the possibly is always there. Mutually assured destruction

You can lead a horse to water...

I fucked up with a war and two thousand other things so I begged my handler to give me fuel so I can stay in power and serve him longer

Trump

Lmao what even is this argument? We should let Russia invade other countries, abduct children, murder and rape the people and commit genocide, because they have nukes? We don't care about what happens to the people in Ukraine, as long as we are cozy and safe far away from the front lines? And what if we'd let Putin steamroll Ukraine, where does it end? When he takes the Balkans? When he takes Poland?

Specifically to prevent an all out war all the countries have gone out of their way to prevent open warfare. We provide money, weapons, food and other aid to Ukraine. We provide specialists to assist them with management and infrastructure. But we don't send in our troop, we don't attack Russia or even help fight in Ukraine. Economic sanctions are applied and yes these sanctions hurt everyone, it's a big pain in the ass. The idea is to provide a way of applying pressure without resorting to war. As long as they hurt Russia, it's worth it.

Saying stuff like the sanctions are making Russia stronger is total nonsense, the sanctions are hurting them a lot. Russia was heavily reliant on selling their oil and gas, now that they can hardly do that anymore, their economy is in big trouble. And sure it strengthens the bond between Russia and China, but that's not the boon for Russia some people make it out to be. China knows Russia is hard stuck and has been milking them hard, buying oil at a very low price and selling stuff for higher prices. And China also wants to keep the rest of their trading partners happy, so there are limits to what they will do.

If we stand together we can contain the fighting in Ukraine, where Russia was the agressor and prevent escalation both in size and scale. I doubt very much Russia will resort to nukes, as that will unleash the rest of the world against them. We might all lose, but they will lose themselves and it's their choice to prevent that from happening. We will be able to beat back Russia and hopefully allow them to reform and come back into the fold.

Slava Ukraini!

But they aren't posting about a politician or famous person. They are posting about this cuck Gunther.

The USA has no allies. Non. Zero. Even Israel and Russia are not their allies, they just are taking advantage of them.

Propaganda at its finest.

His words sound furious, whether he described himself in that way exactly or not

Yeah, it’s a bit of an exaggeration… but it’s still less than one three hundred and sixty fifth of the annual usage by the population of the country. And we’re not even bringing petrol / gasoline into the equation - as I understand it.

These numbers start to put fossil fuel usage into perspective.

The people in the embassies.

Are dick balls like ball dicks? If not, what is the difference?

American level intelligence is actually far below that. And it is steadily dropping year by year. Change my mind

I've said it many times: Cuckold nation.

And even worse, the propaganda gets inserted into spaces where it shouldn’t be under the guise of “hurr durr look how outrageous this is?!”

Don’t repost propaganda. It’s propaganda because it is insidious, it works, and people think they are above it.

It's a train actually, I don't want to think about it, but Putin is the head car or whatever. Prez is receiving but giving it to the next in line.

I am all for people having the freedom to do what they want with consensual adults, but these guys keep cumming on us commoners, and we don't like that, well, most of us don't, maga loves it.

Asking the real questions here. I am curious as well.

Terms of the deal are public?

I save a Mr Global video and I think he said that 300k tons in October was like 18 minutes of fuel based on usage. And the 500k tons in November was 30 minutes.

So very much nothing at all. Which is why it was reported in tons and not barrels.

Sure. He said he magically got something hugely valuable with no cost, and no one else has publicly confirmed that's true. So the entire deal is actually public: it's a bunch of made up BS that no one will corroborate as real. It's that imaginary wall Mexico was paying for all over again.

Hey, look at me. I'm publicly stating that the nation of Italy has agreed to sell me the heel of the boot. The whole place, we're gong's slice it right of, and float it to Texas and open a vineyard there. And maybe a monster truck theme park.

Don't make any of that true just because someone said it.

Will it lower gas prices? No. Will the dumpkin and his cronies get richer? Yes.

Will a lot of idiots THINK gas is cheaper, and vote Republican? Also yes.

The purpose of this rule is because when I first took over as mod, there were some dubious things being stated in these memes as facts. I got sick of fact checking everything. The spirit of the rule is to make sure that you have back up for anything politicians or famous people say, unless you mark it as satire.

I would like all of these maga propagandists to be prosecuted also.