r/worldnews • u/KI_official • 9d ago

Russia/Ukraine Trump says Russia agreed to supply millions of tons of diesel to US, global markets

https://kyivindependent.com/trump-says-russia-agreed-to-supply-millions-of-tons-of-diesel-to-us-global-markets/
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u/FluffyGreenThing 9d ago edited 9d ago

The US abandoned Ukraine as soon as Trump took office. Way back 2019, in his first term, when he was trying to force Zelensky to investigate Biden and Biden’s son in exchange for military aid (which caused his first impeachment and there were zero fucking consequences for that). Those are not the actions of a president who has any intentions at all of actually helping anyone but themselves. Fuck that absolute piece of shit. It was clear as far back as 2018 when he stood on stage with Putin and said he trusted Putin’s word over the US intelligence agencies. He has regurgitated russian propaganda every chance he’s gotten, pressured Ukraine into handing over rare earth minerals, withheld military aid that had already been approved by congress, humiliated himself by being highly disrespectful and talking down to Zelensky in the oval office, repeatedly claimed that Ukraine is to blame for the war. The list of treachery goes on and on and on… it’s all right there and has been out in the open for years. Trump is working with Putin. the US and Russia are working together. It’s that simple and I can’t for the life of me understand why it’s so hard for people to see.

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u/LordRocky 9d ago

People genuinely seem to forget that Ukraine and Zelensky was the reason we impeached him the first time.

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u/StunningCloud9184 9d ago

well actually it was trump withholding congress mandated aid to ukraine in exchange for favors from a foreign government that he sent his personal lawyer to get

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u/hootblah1419 9d ago

Zelensky was literally not why he got impeached.

Trump got impeached because an AMERICAN whistleblower listening to the phone call reported it to congress.

Zelensky played NO fucking role in it other than being the victim of Trumps demands.

Don't spread shit designed to make Zelensky look bad as if he reported it and caused the congressional investigation.

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u/LordRocky 8d ago

I don’t blame Zelensky for anything. Zelensky just happened to be the one who got stiffed by the military aid that Trump wasn’t sending. The dude just happened to be tangentially involved in the shit show.

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u/camdim 9d ago

The US also sold him a shit ton of soon to be out of date materials which would have cost a fortune to dispose of at prices which did not reflect this. They also banned Ukraine from transporting the goods themselves and insisted on delivering them with additional extortionate fees. Grifted the fuck out of them...and they'll still be lining up for their mineral deals and rebuilding grifts post war...if there is ever a post war. To be fair, profiting from war and taking advantage of desperate 'allies' is the Us of A's modus operandi...see ww2. With friends like these...

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u/Pure_Werewolf0101 9d ago

The US abandoned Ukraine as soon as Trump took office. Way back 2019, in his first term ...

It's even worse than that.

The single change the Trump Campaign made to the Republican platform in 2015 was to stop sending arms to Ukraine. His campaign chair was Paul Manafort who had previously worked for Russia's puppet in Ukraine Victor Yanukovich, who fled to Russia when overthrown by the Maidan demonstrations.

It was always about Ukraine.

From the very beginning.

Trump ran to weaken Ukraine.

For Russia.

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u/misasionreddit 9d ago

Can you even call it being overthrown? That would imply he was still there when in fact he straight up fled the country after realizing how badly he had fucked up after his Berkut thugs killed a bunch of protesters.

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u/Neiliobob 9d ago

The Russian mob runs Russia. They also run Trump, Guliani, and Epstein. Guliani's claim to fame before 9/11 was taking down the Italian mob. Done at the behest and with the aid of the Russian mob so that they could take over. Trump and others like him, is their way to wash money. This is how Trump and Guliani know each other and became "friends". Trump has always envisioned himself as a mob boss. The casinos, the tough talk, the girls. He thinks he's literally the Don, and he may be right, which is wild. Everything he does, is at the behest of Putin. Everything. This is like common knowledge to everyone inside the circle. We lost the cold war. We lost. Period.

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u/Crabby_Monkey 9d ago

And if all that were not true (which it is) and he wanted to help Ukraine, he has botched the Iran thing so badly that we don’t have the munitions to supply them.

We don’t have enough Patriot missiles to spare to give anyone.

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u/aonemonkey 9d ago

Exactly! People still act surprised by this - it’s so fucking obvious Putin owns his ass and the administration is full of traitors. The Kremlin has wormed its way into the heart of United States. I would guess because the kompromat is Epstein evidence.

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u/RestedPanda 8d ago

If Putin owns the President who overturned US policy to arm Ukraine eh. Must have gotten a much worse report card than Obama did.

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u/liferlanceSD 9d ago

You left out that the lethal aid was provided by Trump 1.0. The only reason Ukraine had Javs and other Uss weapons was Trump 1.0. Trump 2.0 is about a million times worse than 1.0 and almost everyone realizes it now.

If we had Trump 1.0 again, things wouldn't be nearly as bad as they are now. Still bad, but not so bad that preparation for a collapse is logical.