Trump tells Zelensky to stop striking Russian diesel infrastructure

https://kyivindependent.com/trump-tells-zelensky-to-stop-striking-russian-diesel-infrastructure/

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saltesc@lemmy.world · 164 pts · 3d (7 replies)

"Mr. Zelensky has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia," Trump said. "Let him go after targets, but not diesel fuel, because he's causing a shortage of diesel."

Fucking idiot.

Malica@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 3d

🤣

anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3d

No, just controlling the narrative. He didn’t come up with that himself.

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 2d

ā€œMr. Putin has to do one thing. He has to withdraw from Ukraine….ā€

lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 2d

"Stop doing shit that actually hurts the enemy invading your country"

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

He is a very self-aware, stable genius.

lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

Really. As if creating a shortage of diesel were an unintended consequence of attacking diesel infrastructure.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

The idiot causing the diesel shortage blames someone else for the diesel shortage. Typical trump.

kukukese@lemmy.world · 127 pts · 3d (7 replies)

My question = Has Trump ever told Putin to stop striking civilian infrastructure in Ukraine?

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 3d

Has Donald ever said, ā€œthank youā€?

username_1@discuss.tchncs.de · 36 pts · 3d (3 replies)

Trump is stupid but not stupid enough to ask Putin anything. Trump knows perfectly well that he still has some level of leverage on Ukraine while none on Russia.

CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3d

You mispelled Putin's kompromat on Trump. ;)

Though at this stage the value of any kompromat is dubious at best. I don't think a 4k Dolby Atmos recording of Trump raping a bus load of preschoolers would have any impact on public opinion.

usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 3d (1 reply)

As if lack of leverage ever stopped him from saying stupid shit

village604@adultswim.fan · 6 pts · 3d

Like everything he's said about Iran

cochise@comuna.social.br · 4 pts · 3d

Ulrainer makes oil? Then no.
Trump only worri are oil prices. He even unsanctioned Iranian oil at start of war.

boydster@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3d
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 105 pts · 3d (2 replies)

If Trump tells you to stop doing something, then you’re doing something right.

WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com · 34 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Trump might actually be onto something with this one. If only there was someone who started a conflict this year that has disrupted crude supply whom it could have been given too earlier.

CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3d

Always projection.

AfterlifeAdventures@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 3d (1 reply)

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 2d

"Staff are quickly tiring of cleaning up all of his 'released statements' wherever he goes. 'The smell is...terrible. Unlike anything you've ever experienced.' said one personal aide on the condition of anonymity."

skozzii@lemmy.ca · 51 pts · 3d (5 replies)

But Trump said America doesn't need anyone else's oil, and the they harvest and produce more than anyone else, so they won't be affected by any of this.

Does this mean he lied to me?

mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 3d (1 reply)

The US is actually a net hydrocarbon exporter. The catch is that most of it is either natural gas or low quality oil. We're set for tar, plastic feedstock, and LNG, but you can't run those in cars

Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2d

Tell that to Brazil.

monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3d (1 reply)

He’ll just update the map and call it America, there don’t need anyone. America doesn’t need anyone!

Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 3d

This is democracy manifest

mechoman444@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 3d

Did trump lie to you?

Naaaa don't think so.

mcv@lemmy.zip · 46 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Ukraine was forced to attack Russian refineries by Trump's war on Iran. That war sent fuel prices skyrocketing, and thereby also Russia's oil revenue, which Putin uses to fund the war. In order to hinder Russia's ability to wage war, Ukraine had no option but to start blowing up Russian refineries. At least that way Russia doesn't profit from Trump's inflated oil prices.

And with Russian strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure, it's impossible to argue it's not a legitimate target. If Trump doesn't like it, he has to provide an alternative. Complaining about the consequences of his actions isn't going to fix anything.

GardenGeek@europe.pub · 4 pts · 3d

Zynism:

I'd almost bet we see Trump threatening Ukraine with the US entering the war on Russias side in the next months...

Kirp123@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 3d (8 replies)

Does the US even provide anything to Ukraine anymore? Because I thought that at this point Ukraine is just fighting with weapons/gear they get from European countries and stuff they built for themselves. What leverage does he have on Ukraine? Can he stop providing them ammo? Lol no, the US apparently doesn't have enough for themselves. There's also the simple fact that European countries can just get stuff from the US and pass it on to Ukraine, and they're being more and more willingly to do it since Russia is starting to attack them.

Trump and everyone around him are such morons it's painful. If they wanted to have leverage over Ukraine they should have kept supplying them so they could hold those supplies over their heads in cases like these. Now it's just words nobody cares about.

What is he gonna do otherwise? Invade Ukraine? Support Russia militarily?

Man this kind of incompetence would be quite funny if there weren't so many people dying.

Mihies@programming.dev · 6 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Sadly at least AFAIK weapons, Starlink (paid by Europe) and intel.

DeLancre@piefed.social · 5 pts · 3d
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plyth@feddit.org · 5 pts · 3d (5 replies)

At the same time, Europe continued to rely heavily on weapons from the United States for its military aid

https://www.kielinstitut.de/research/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

These are the findings of the latest update of the Ukraine Support Tracker, which covers aid allocations through June 2026.

Update August 13, 2026

Kirp123@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3d (4 replies)

Yea I know we rely on US equipment but what I'm saying is that we can order ammo for that equipment and pass it on. A lot of countries have passed on the equipment too. Trump could stop sale to the Europeans but that would cause a lot of headaches as there are already contracts in place for it and we are one of the larger markets.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3d (3 replies)

Are you under the impression that Trump gives a fuck about Europe? The headaches are only going to be an issue if they're bigger than his domestic headaches with maintaining power. Contracts with Europe are only interesting for people with power to negotiate or cancel them. šŸ˜„

Radical_Socialist_t00t@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 3d (2 replies)

Trump knows he's either dying soon or going to jail, he doesn't care about anything except his image which he's too dumb to realize every country in the world sees right thro.

plyth@feddit.org · 1 pts · 2d (1 reply)
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d

Yeah, they do, except for imbeciles and collaborators.

Arancello@aussie.zone · 27 pts · 3d (1 reply)

Ukraine President Zelenskyy calls on President donald trump to halt strikes on Iranian diesel, saying the attacks are causing a fuel shortage

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 2d

trump needs the distractions to continue, so no it wont, hes hoping it would still help russia's petro dollars too.

GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 3d

I want to Zelenskyy to destroy all of Russia’s oil refineries and oil production facilities and oil infrastructure even harder

Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 22 pts · 2d

Zelensky listened to the US early on and left the petro alone. Big mistake as it may have ended the war by now if Russia didn’t have the petro dollars.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 2d

Zelenskyy should also bomb some Russian troll farms and futher damage MAGA's midterm chances.

CaptDust@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 3d

Far as I can tell theres no incentive for them to abide by this. Keep pushing, Ukraine - this strategy is working.

newton@feddit.online · 12 pts · 2d

Say please

CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2d

Zelenskyy: Drones go brrrr

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3d (1 reply)

JFC, priorities, I guess.

Tiny d donnie might want to tell Putin to stop killing people in Ukraine and put an end to this war?

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 2d

"Vladimiiir staaaahp [shits pants] I'm not happy waaaah 😭" was about all he could muster, apparently.

echo@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 3d

Fuck Trump

AfterlifeAdventures@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3d (4 replies)

kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3d (3 replies)

communist trump? if only...

AfterlifeAdventures@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2d (2 replies)

He is just like putin a cunt, bloody nazi communist cunt

kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2d (1 reply)

nazi communist?

remind me again, who fought eachother in ww2. seems like i have forgotten

AfterlifeAdventures@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2d

Oh I get it, so do you but their fear mongering has gotten to the base of the usa, only way to fix it is use it like they do, other than violence. So before anyone has to get violent against each other lets big brain these fuckin nazis. You remember whom the nazis tried to wipe off earth? They are now doin the same thing and everyone's given them weapons to do so. So look to my deeper meanings and understand why I choose the words I say. I don't wanna have to fight, but I will when I'm needed too and able right now time isn't right

Routhinator@startrek.website · 7 pts · 3d

Trump should stop breathing

Bwaz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d

"Oh, yeah, sure, sir".

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3d

For a nation that prides itself on its somewhat dubious war fighting capabilities, they sure managed to pick an absolute dunce at warfare to be their commander in chief.

lithiumground@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d (2 replies)

Business man trump's religion is 'money' and 'power'

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Trump's religion is the worship of Trump.

He's been singlularly ineffective at gaining wealth except by theft, and he is too stupid to wield power effectively.

lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

I think he has wielded power very effectively. You just misunderstood his objective: he never wanted to govern. He only ever wanted to enrich himself, his family, and his cronies.

DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d

Generally speaking, it's usually not wise to do what a rapist tells you to do. It doesn't stop their rapist tendencies.

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

"SORRY WAT?? [blast]

VE KAN'T HEAR YOUR LEETLE WHYNINGK [explosion]

OVER TEH SOUND OF ALL TZESE ROOZZIAN

[booms intensify]

DIESSEL REFINERIEES

(shockwave whoosh) EXPLHODDING. Hang on...

(Background) "MOAR FIRE, SERGEI, HEET EM AGGEN!"

(Cheering in background: "Slava Ukrani!!")

ANYWAY. BISSY BISSY. CALLK BACK LATUR."

[Skype_hangup.wav]

officerdwn@feddit.org · 3 pts · 2d

Can Somebody with a nice ukrainian accent do this bit please?

aesthelete@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

But I thought Russia had "all of the cards" or whatever.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 2d

dont you mean, PUTIN told, lavrov to tell trump to stop attacking russia.