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[–] 264 points 1 week ago (19 children)

Remember to donate to Ukraine so they can do it again!

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago (12 children)

    Alternatively, you could blockade the tanker about to offload 300,000 tons of Russian diesel in Wilmington NC

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    That deal was all about lifting sanctions on Russia and trying to open back usual trade relations with them.

    The amount of diesel agreed is laughable, I think it is few hours of US consumption. It won't change prices at all. I think there might have been a private deal that benefits trump directly.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I'd actually put good money on this not happening. Russia isn't really geared up to deliver oil like that they're all about the pipelines.

    Also whatever tankers they do send will have to get past if fleet of pissed off European fleets. Remember countries like Estonia went through some relatively severe economic hardship in order to sanction Russia, and then the United States comes along and does a deal with Russia to save themselves from a war that they started. Perhaps maintaining good relations with the United States is no longer worth it? I could totally see an oil tanker getting bordered.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Germany elected Nazis all because the center liberal parties pinned their policies to an unpopular war and sanctions that destroyed their economy.

    The only people who have benefited since the 2014 coup have been American corporations and American billionaires.

    Piracy is all they have now.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (6 children)

    I'm praying USA picks a fight with Ukraine...it will lose so badly actually, that it will finally collapse.

    EDIT: USA will lose, not Ukraine.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago*

    I have a recent newborn and I keep thinking that when he's like 15 or so and starting to learn about world politics he's not going to believe me that the United States was want to major world player. He is going to think I am lying to him. It would be like your parents trying to tell you that Africa was once a United country and had the largest military on the planet. Looking at it now it wouldn't be believable.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    America is the only thing keeping Ukraine's junta afloat. 🙄

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yeah Yanukovych was the last legit leader until the CIA poisoned him with dioxin... No wait...

    What the actual fuck are you talking about?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    My very blue reps support genocide. They're pro Israel and pro Ukraine. I'm starting to see a pattern.

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