🚨 BREAKING: Trump says Putin has agreed to supply millions of tons of diesel fuel, promising record-fast price drops for Americans and global markets. full story : https://realnarrativenews.com/read/s72qeqsad/
Putin will clarify that the diesel he was referring to is actually in Ukraine but rightfully belongs to him, and he needs US assistance to liberate it.
Russia, in the middle of a nationwide fuel shortage, with ~50% of their refining capability destroyed by Ukraine, is in a position to export massive amounts of diesel?
Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my butt.
Shwing
My thoughts exactly. Perhaps a side benefit of blaming Ukraine for high prices to deflect blame away from Israel’s genocidal ambitions in the ME.
I dunno, Trump’s a true idiot, most of what he does makes no sense.
Tons is a bizarre way to represent diesel fuel. Also, don’t we have embargos on Russia? Also, there’s absolutely no way that that’s enough fuel to meaningfully change prices.
You know, I was curious about this and ran the numbers. You’re absolutely correct.
The initial 3 shipments he’s talking about are 1.8mil tons, assuming short tons which is the US value, that’s equivalent to 518.5 million gallons of diesel fuel. According to eia.gov, the US consumed approximately 123 million gallons of diesel per day in 2025.
So, he’s literally talking about enough diesel to get us by for about a week. Not sure it will have much effect, if it’s even going to happen.
is all the diesel coming with the imaginary potash from Belarus?
Trump says a lot of things. Wondering if it’s true, and how he plans on profiting from the trade. You know he doesn’t do anything out of kindness or helping Americans, so how is he making money here? Maybe shorting the price?
He benefits because it shores up control of Congress. He’s worried about the midterms because of how disastrous the gas price climb has been for Republican support. I know they’re desperate to shore up their flagging numbers because I got a cold call the other day from a bot trying to convince me that Iran was a massive danger to the US and that if we hadn’t invaded now it would have lead to a massive attack in the future and strongly implied that would have involved Iran nuking the US. It was blatant propaganda couched as a public opinion survey but their bias wasn’t even subtle.
They’re in full blown panic because not even Republican voters are supporting this war at this point. Trump needs gas prices to come down ASAP before they bleed even more votes.
I wouldn’t doubt it’s a way for Putin to make Trump pressure Ukraine to stop making an embarrassment out of Russia’s black sea fleet. “That’s US diesel now, stop hitting it or we’ll pull even more support”.
Seeing as how he also says the US has “total control of the strait of Hormuz”, I’m thinking this is just the brain worms tweeting.
