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.

  • AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world
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    Oh ffs. Putin could retreat from Ukraine anytime.

    Yeah, I know he can’t. He’d be done for politically and possibly also physically.

    US should let Seal Team 6 handle this new oil crisis like they handled Bin Laden. Just send the them to Putin’s Datscha and boom, Russia would retreat from Ukraine, Ukraine would stop hitting Russia. Problem solved.

    1 man

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      US should let Seal Team 6 handle this new oil crisis like they handled Bin Laden. Just send the them to Putin’s Datscha and boom, Russia would retreat from Ukraine, Ukraine would stop hitting Russia. Problem solved.

      By invading countries that have nothing to do with it, taking the better part of a decade doing so before finishing the task?

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      This is probably not correct, and seal team six would likely have much higher risk trying to go I to Russia, and neither AL queda nor venuxela have nukes.

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    The Orange Shitbag Russian asset can piss off. The Muscovites should leave Ukrainian territory, which includes the Crimea.

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    He should tell US military apparatus to stop assisting Ukraine with targeting. It’s all US controlled satellites that permit all Ukrainian terror strikes.

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      Russia can end the war they started today by conceding the loss, give territory back to Ukraine, and let Putin accidentally fall out of a window.

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        Always depressing to see so many supporting your demonic fiction. That debate aside, point is Trump doesn’t need to ask Zelensky for anything. He just needs to stop US military/GPS support operations. So this is yet another distraction from the 100 other distractions focusing away from failures. But also, that Trump supports his oligarch donors profits from high oil/diesel prices.

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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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    saying the attacks are causing a fuel shortage

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

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

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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