The Wall Street Journal had reported that Ukraine had given in to pressure from the White House to stop bombing Russian energy infrastructure.

Ukrainian officials, however, told the Kyiv Independent newspaper that they never agreed to a demand from Jared Kushner, the US president’s son-in-law, to pause refinery strikes for 30 days. The raids on Russia restarted on Friday, Kremlin officials said, complaining that Kyiv was now “simply ignoring” US wishes.

Trump has blamed the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the rise in global fuel prices, and last month lifted US sanctions on Russian diesel.

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[–] 104 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Nothing new here I don't think. Ukraine has always said they are open to an energy ceasefire. If the orange fuckwit wants it to happen he'll have to get Putin's dick out of his mouth for long enough to beg him to agree to it.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 week ago* (10 children)

    Ukraine is doing math here. If they stop, trump may be seen as peace maker and wins votes. Trump is a putin ally basically at this point. If they go on they weaken their enemy AND may shift elections to a more moderate candidate in the US by elevated gas prices.

    Of course this could go tits up if they lose international support. Destruction of northstream might have helped anti ukraine parties rise in germany. But regarding infrastructure inside russia i think they can only win.

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

    Lol at the idea of Germany giving up on Ukraine, they will deserve the Russian invasion at that point if they do

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    Unfortunately Germans tend to get very dense when it gets to some political stuff. 🌝

    Some simply don’t get what is so controversial about building Nordstream in the first place and how it undermines their independence (and I don’t just mean energy independence).

    They have Gerhard Schröder as a clearest example of someone given a share in Russian gas sales, but Nordstream is just “two countries doing business, is buying energy from France also undermining our independence?”.

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

    At this point?

    At what point wasn't he?

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

    I hate to give him some small credit, but they have sent weapons and intelligence even during this term, even if it has been up and down.

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    Yes, they have sent intelligence and yes, they have sent weapons even if they haven't paid for them themselves. The USA was doing much more before, but it could be much worse with them restricting access to their military industrial complex.

    So lets be real about what they still do and allow, Ukraine would be in more trouble without access to e.g. new Patriot missiles. But without forgetting about the USA being unreliable, untrustworthy and treacherous to point of it not supporting its own allies.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    He said weapons and intelligence

    Your source is talking about humanitarian aid

    The Trump administration stopped humanitarian aid, but is still supplying weapons and intelligence most of the time

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  • [–] 63 points 1 week ago

    Fuck Trump. Honestly, best advice is to do the opposite of what Trump says.

    Heck, if Trump said the sky was blue, I'd have to double check it actually was.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I'm sorry, there was some kind of agreement?

    All i've seen is a senile old pedophile yelling stuff.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 week ago (20 children)

    Trump will go into history as the president who sat on his hands while he had the chance to permanently neuter a decades old ideological enemy.

    Among other pants-on-head moronic moronic bullshit of course.

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  • [+] -32 points 1 week ago* (16 children)

    Russia is not an ideological threat to America in any way shape or form.

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

    Tankies are traitors within. Regressive spambots and election manipulation overwhelmingly come from Putin's influence. Russia absolutely is an ideological threat.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

    What's the ideological threat? What ideology does Russia have that threatens the ideology of America? America's ideology is neo-liberal imperialist capitalism. How does Russian's imperialist agenda threaten america's neo-liberal imperialist capitalism? To me, America and Russia are a lot more ideologically aligned than America and Europe.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    WTF are you trying to argue?

    Russia's geo-political strategy requires weakening rival nations. That's how we got Trump and Brexit. To claim that is not a threat is absurd and intellectually devoid

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  • [–] -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    "Empire weakens rival nations as a tactic, more at 11"

    Trump was a wet dream for neoliberals until he started a war with Iran what are you talking about? Neolibs love Russia. Neolibs love Brexit. Neolibs in America, the ideology of America, are not at all threatened by Russia. They are threatened by losing money and capital. Cozying up to Russia against Europe is completely okay with neoliberals. A european war is good for american neolibs. A weak Europe is good for American neolibs, and neoliberalism is the ideology of America since Reagan. American ideology, Neoliberalism, is under no threat by Russia. The amount of fear Russia instills is extremely valuable to America's ideology.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The USA has a civilized tradition side by side to the uncivilized one, which got the upper hand in the last 10 years. Russia only has the uncivilized one.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    The neoliberal order in America has existed since Reagan. Nothing happened in the past 10 years that changed anything about American ideology except the Iran War. Every other war and foreign intervention has been for the Neoliberal order. Including everything about the Ukraine war.

    "Civilization" is a nationalist term. Only nationalistic ideology talks in civilized and uncivilized. Don't bring up nationalism to me.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 week ago*

    With such a one dimensional "USA is as bad as Russia" worldview you are probably a bot. I am responding for the sake of any human reading this thread.

    The USA has done bad shit for sure, but it did things from time to time that are not easy to interpret as motivated by empire building. For example the intervention to the Yugoslav civil war to stop more genocide to take place. One can argue this was a show of power too, but they got no direct imperial benefit from it, so I believe the intent was more civilized than not. I definitely would have preferred the USA pushing back Russia to behind their borders from Ukraine instead of the 4 years of suffering. Putin would have sucked it up.

    On the note of "civilization being nationalistic" you are getting it totally wrong. You are mistaking it for culture. Civilization is a behavior, people and organisations can behave civil almost anywhere in the world. Culture is a collection of encouraged and discouraged behaviors, civil behavior being one of them. Some cultures support civilized behavior, others don't. Russian culture does not. USA has this cultural split, one side of which supports civilization the other doesn't.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (1 child)

    That's right. They are a geo-political threat.

    EDIT: Actually I'm going to contradict myself. Russia actively tries to prop dicators in the US. They are an ideological threat. Not because that threat was also active internally that you can't consider them a threat.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    they fund most if not all right wing governments and white supremecist groups in the west, + they are mostly behind anti-immigration stance that most countries have now. le penne, probably ADF, maybe canadians far right, the GOP.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago

    Slava Ukraini!

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  • [–] 20 points 1 week ago

    Good hunting, Slava Ukraini

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    They'll stop in 2030 as soon as they get the Patriots the US has sold them.

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    Fuck ‘em up, boys

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago

    And HOW!

    Slava Ukraini!!

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

    Terrible journalist slop. Putting the blatant lies in the article, not refuting it with the facts that the fuel price increase is a direct consequence from the usa starting a war with Iran.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Weeeell they are reporting on the he said she said but without stating truthfulness. Technically accurate, practically useless for whoever doesn't have any context

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  • [–] -2 points 1 week ago

    There was literally no blatant lies... Where is the lie in this:

    Trump has blamed the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the rise in global fuel prices, and last month lifted US sanctions on Russian diesel.

    Trump did say that. This article isn't about fuel prices, so why expand on it.

    If you want an article about fuel prices, try one of these:


    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/trump-high-gas-prices-midterms-cycle

    Energy prices across the board are higher because of the US war on Iran, which closed the strait of Hormuz, through which much of the world’s crude oil flows.


    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/30/iran-war-energy-crisis-winter

    The war didn’t create America’s energy affordability crisis. But it is making a bad situation much worse.


    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/26/european-gas-prices-four-year-high-winter-supply-fears-middle-east

    The jump in gas prices comes as fears grow that there could be further supply disruptions in the Middle East, amid reports the US and Israel have drawn up plans for renewed strikes against Iran after the US midterm elections.


    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/23/oil-five-month-high-fears-us-renews-strikes-iran

    The jump came after Tehran said it would attack oil facilities, undersea cables, datacentres and AI facilities in the Gulf region if a new US-Israeli offensive was launched against Iran.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The War That Solved Climate Change

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I don't think you should be discounting the Iran war like that. Unless you're combining them both with whatever other conflicts that are bound to come up into a WW2.5 if not a full blown WW3.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    Imperialist and expansionist Russia and U.S.

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    Good. Any defiance aimed at that fascist is a net positive for the planet.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    If they could arrange for Jared Kushner to take a one way tour to a Russian refinery, they could eliminate a pretty big share of global corruption.

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