🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺 Putin sells Trump diesel he doesn’t have. Americans pay even more at the pump while US money flows to russia as it bombs Ukraine. Now Putin wants Trump to deliver Ukraine on a platter & carve up Europe. The diesel was just the appetizer 👇 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻-𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. Trump waived sanctions so Putin can sell diesel he does not have. The cash funds missiles on Ukrainian cities and the hybrid campaign already running across Europe. Americans still pay near-record prices. In Putin’s hometown the pumps are dry. The leaders get the photograph and the money. Everything else is already being built around that single, trivial transaction. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸. 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘂𝗽 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱. 9 October: 300,000 tons “immediately,” then 500,000, then a million, plus three million more “depending on the refineries.” Waiver until April 2027. The market shrugged. U.S. diesel still sits at roughly $6.28–6.32 a gallon. The United States is a major exporter. The first 40,000-ton tanker left Primorsk for a mid-November arrival — after the midterms. Three ships, Novak says. Tiny barrels. Maximum optics. No relief for the trucker or the farmer. 𝗣𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗹 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿. Rosbalt reports diesel at just 62% of stations in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. Dry pumps, rationing, queues whenever fuel arrives. Independent stations are suffering most. Ukrainian strikes have cut Russian diesel production by roughly 30%, yet Moscow keeps exporting it. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗹 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆𝗺𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. On 26 October, senior Democrats and Republican Thom Tillis demanded that major U.S. banks and ports preserve all records of Russian diesel deals. Their warning: possible sanctions violations, criminal liability and money financing Putin's war. An investigation is being prepared for after the midterms if control of the chamber flips. The first tanker hasn't even docked. 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁. Putin intends to use the Ukraine talks to force NATO back to its 1997 borders — withdrawal of troops and weapons from Poland, the Baltic states, Finland and Estonia. That is why Ushakov insists Europe must sit at the table. Western diplomats see the demand clearly and reject it. Peskov stated yesterday that Russia will not stop military operations during the “peace” talks; the armed forces continue massive strikes. Local humanitarian pauses (Oleshky, Melania Trump’s initiative) are offered as theatre. Kaja Kallas, same day in Paris: little hope for imminent peace. Russia continues attacks on Kyiv and is sinking civilian ships in the Black Sea. The EU’s task, she said, is to help Ukraine withstand and raise the cost for Moscow. New sanctions this month; more coming. The diesel opening, the fertilizer talk, the Novatek channel in Alaska — all of it is designed to drag Moscow out of isolation while Europe absorbs the hybrid pressure and the political bill. After nationalising over 800 European companies worth 7.6 trillion rubles, Putin now promises “favourable conditions” for those who stay. He even claims Europe has plenty of friends of Russia who were “forced to leave.” 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗸𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝘁. 𝗛𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘁 𝗞𝘆𝗶𝘃. “You are a humanist also, sir, and I salute that.” Putin then expressed regret about the losses. Hours later Russian forces launched a massive ballistic missile attack on Kyiv. Why stop killing when Washington applauds your humanity? A few words of sorrow cost nothing. The bombing continues. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗹. 𝗣𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲. The diesel is the appetizer. The real meal is a New Yalta in which three men decide Ukraine’s fate in a room where Ukraine is not invited, and NATO is invited only to be dismantled. Trump gets the photograph and the illusion of mastery. Putin gets cash, sanctions relief, time, and a chance to rewrite the European security order. Ukraine pays in blood. Europe is expected to pretend the price is acceptable. 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗹. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆 — 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗞𝘆𝗶𝘃 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝘀𝗼. Sources close to Zelensky dropped it today: the suspension of strikes on Russian refineries is only a pause. The United States and others asked for it. Kyiv is waiting for answers. It will not last. While Moscow sells scraps of diesel it does not have, Ukrainian strikes continue on the real targets. In the last days: the Energiya plant in Yelets — Russia’s sole producer of power batteries for glide bombs, Iskander-M missiles and cruise missiles — was hit and burned. The main microchip workshop at Proton-Electrotex in Oryol, which feeds components for ballistic and cruise missiles, was destroyed. Radars, command posts and other air-defence nodes in Belgorod Oblast were struck. Russia is already dry on diesel. Its air defence, stretched thin and failing to intercept, is dropping its own munitions across Belgorod. The city is being hammered by both Ukrainian drones and the debris of Moscow’s own systems. Putin keeps losing allies and still demands that Europe surrender Kyiv so he can roll NATO back to the 1997 borders. Peskov has already confirmed that the “peace” process will not pause the killing. Every serious assessment of the war, from historians to Western intelligence agencies, says the same thing: a settlement that leaves Russia intact is only a pause that lets it rebuild for the larger war it is already preparing in Europe. Trump is arranging the division of spheres of influence with Putin and Xi. The diesel is only the down-payment. The rest — the New Yalta, the pressure on NATO’s 1997 borders, the continued killing — is already under way. Trump’s America has now crossed a line that earlier administrations, for all their other failures, treated as non-negotiable. Calling the organizer of the largest land war in Europe since 1945 a humanitarian is not a slip. It is a public announcement that the American side has decided the moral accounting no longer applies. The release of one elderly American teacher is treated as sufficient counterweight to the systematic targeting of Ukrainian civilians, the abduction of children, and the deliberate destruction of energy infrastructure ahead of winter. The comparison is not between two acts of mercy. It is between a hostage release and an ongoing campaign of extermination. Treating them as equivalent is the definition of the stain. For Putin the genocide of Ukraine stopped being a policy years ago. It became the fixed idea that holds the entire construction together. Half Trump’s term was spent exposing him. The rest may be spent trying to stop him. Washington will debate the depth of his stupidity while Putin continues slaughtering Ukrainians.