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Diesel from Russia to the United States is not an economic move but purely a symbolic step. The fact of an agreement to supply it is merely an opportunity for Trump to explain why he will protect Russia from our deep strikes.
The deep essence of the deal is that Russia will pay Trump for the United States to protect it from Ukraine — by the few means the U.S. has left. This entails refusing to provide intelligence, gradually limiting Ukrainians’ access to Starlink, and so on. Igor Lutsenko writes about this.
The real goal of Trump the peacemaker
Quite possibly, Russian payments will be routed to the Trump family through channels such as cryptocurrencies or businesses connected to them, and will be significantly larger than even the price of that diesel.
In fact, from the very beginning, I think that was the idea behind 'Trump the peacemaker.' We had already heard earlier about possible deals to restore Nord Stream and operations involving Lukoil’s assets. And so it slowly began.
A revolt against reason
But what is striking is the cheapness with which Trump sold his country’s interests and dealt another blow to the United States’ image as a rational state. This deal looks like a revolt by Trumpists against any reason and a rejection of any conscience as factors in international politics.
Russian bloody diesel in no way helps Trump fix the high gasoline prices he created with his war against Iran. Even if he manages to haul those 300 thousand tons to the U.S., that is less than the daily consumption of that large country. By American standards the profit here — whatever petty Trumpian millions — will be minimal.
The cost of this MONTHLY shipment is less than half a billion dollars. In the scale of American shadow flows this is pocket change; at one time much more passed through USAID in two days.
Any Ukrainian corruption can only be envied by Americans.
Ordinary Americans can only be pitied now. On top of everything, they are now funding the war against themselves, because in Russia they hate the U.S. There they understand and openly say that they are fighting the 'collective West,' which now even pays them.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Без розвідданих та Starlink: за скільки Трамп продав Україну?". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: Channel 24.
