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Circular finance. Learning from the Ai ceos
You know whats even stupider? The amount of diesel Trump bought from Russia is enough to last about 1-2 days...
Putin will not supply even this. He most probably won't supply anything. He has a fuel shortage crisis in Russia and he has to feed the military too. At least 50 % of his refining capacity is down and will stay down for months to come.
Don’t worry, Trump will just pay in advance since he loves spending money that’s not from his own pocket. See every company he’s run into the ground, the donations you can make to him and the presidential trips to his properties where he makes White House staff and secret service pay…
Its the trash diesel that Russians started producing due to shortages. But its been damaging vehicles so they wanted to dump the rest on a stupid country dumb enough to buy it.
Just like that Argentinian beef.
What’s next importing asbestos from Russia to lower the cost of building materials? Fun fact: Russian still exports asbestos building materials
Yeah, I wonder how much Americans will have to pay for repairing their vehicles after this crap gets into their tanks.
Even stupider is keeping tariffs on Canadian oil, NG, and diesel while trying to lower prices.
Was it about the oil or was it about the message?
days? try hours
The art of the deal.
The only impressive thing with this con man is his ability and willingness to abuse a system that allows people who have the $ to sue others into oblivion.
The man couldn't even run a freaking casino. In most if not all other developed nations, he would have never made it to becoming a billionaire; he benefited from a system that truly rewards the privileged, no matter how bad they are at their business.
Regarding the war, you'd think that after failures like Vietnam, Iraq 2.0, and Afghanistan, some officials in positions of power would have at least learned something. I guess not enough to stop this ape from starting a mess with Iran. He refused to listen to those who might have warned him that this wouldn't be like Venezuela, where you drop 3 bombs and it's over in 2 hours. You don't need to be an expert to see that Iran would be a trap, but perhaps that's the plan all along because some people are definitely profiting from this shit show.
I don't understand how MAGA supporters cope with their terrible decision. The guy is trolling them non stop. He promised tariff refund checks, they're still waiting (or forgot). You know who didn't have to wait long for their $600 million check? A mega corporation like Amazon, that posts billions in net profit yearly, lmfao. What happened to "end the war in Ukraine as president elect", "cheaper groceries on day 1", or " Kamala will start wars, I will be the president of peace"?
This admin of imbeciles can't even be bothered to properly interview candidates for the position of press secretary, as if "I passed the bar exam in China" would fly. The irony of MAGAts calling Biden's picks DEI hires when you look at all the unqualified idiots in Trump's admin! I am so tired of this circus. And most democrats in office should be ashamed for their lack of spine and commitment, when you have 85 year old Bernie always at the front line, what the heck are most others doing?
The man couldn't even run a freaking casino.
To be fair, he wasn't trying to. He was using casinos to get rid of some of his personal debt, among other things. Trump personally made a bunch of money, and when they went bankrupt he made sure the losses were suffered by other people, not him.
From his perspective the casino scam was a complete success.
There was also a report that Russian is buying the oil from Iran.
The diesel, yes.
This really isnt about economics. Its not like Russia makes that much more on selling it to USA than India anyway. Trump wants to make noice for the midterms. Pretend to care about diesel price etc, while Putin is superhappy watching all the Europeans running around screaming about the deal, asking for distanceing between Europe and the USA, driving a vedge between the two. The actual economic aspect in this is very limited, and it was never about it
We all know that USA started "the war" by attacking Iran.
We also know that Russia by not selling oil to USA or Europe didn't take the prices to the levels which are today.
We also know that American oil companies (which are huge sponsors of Trump) are making huge profits from the USA attack on Iran and they have all the reasons to keep this going as much as they can.
Nothing is stupid, everything is going as they are planned by big oil and gun manufacturing CEO's.
The oil companies promised a billion dollars to Trump’s campaign, but high oil prices mean long-term demand destruction in their business — which is kinda really fucking stupid on their part.
Every freight company that goes out of business and parks their trucks because of high diesel prices is what demand destruction looks like.
Every person worldwide who gets fed up with high gasoline or diesel prices and buys a ore efficient vehicle, especially an EV, that will be on the road for the next 20 years is what long-term demand-destruction looks like.
Achieving regulatory capture of the United States government turns out to have been a really fucking stupid long-term play for these guys, because the administration they bought doesn’t have any guardrails.
I’d say “oops”, except that the worst of the consequences will fall on innocent bystanders who had nothing to do with this.
In today's economics and supply chains you can't afford to rage war on any nation holding oil, rare earth minerals, lithium or semiconductor factories. This is the reality and no matter how much orange paint you use you can't change it.
Sounds about right for this circus
Look up all the other wars, this ain't new
But it’s always funnier when it happens to yanks.
Because they are so loud.
That's not stupid, it's the way the rich always have kept control. Go to war, kill the regular joes and even bomb ourselves just to keep it going. Sowing discord and hate is literally the rich people play since the dawn of time.
Price for Putins "help" in this election cycle has increased dramatically.
Inflation is effecting everyone
Funding both sides of a war we started. Feels like the 80’s all over again.
Trump made the deal to fund the Russian disinformation operations before mid elections
USA funds its enemy in a war.
Fork found in kitchen
Repost this everywhere. It is too simple not to understand!
Why is this in r/humour - this is just news and it’s not at all funny
I wonder what alliance would matter more to Russia. A decimated Iran or the US
This is malice not stupidity. Quit saying that shit.
Healthcare plz
when we did this with Reagan a bunch of officials got charged and went down
until Billy Barr started working on their pardons. That Billy Barr.
Doesn't the US produce a surplus of like 2 million barrels of diesel above the domestic demand? All we would need to do is restrict diesel exports. Buying Russian fuel is such a fucking inexplicable move (outside of blatant corruption and a compromised president as the explanation).
Republicans are paying to kill American soldiers
It’s called treason
Wouldn't it make more sense for the USA to buy oil from Iran and cut out the middle man? In fact to save time and money perhaps the USA could bomb its own Middle East military bases and they can sell themselves oil to pay for it. That cuts both Russia and Iran out of the equation and puts the USA in full control of all aspects of this situation.
What’s the issue? This situation is totally Trumpish and fits the script which is our reality here in the “United” States 100%.
This is how you keep the war going. If it ends prematurely, folks won't hit their financial goals.
war is business,. not justified by politics. it's safe to call them evil.
Makes complete sense if you're the arms manufacturing industry and the last few years have seen rockets piling up at your warehouses.
You know how many people argue that this isn't happening with our entitlement programs!?
They always the one in the middle makes the most money. Playing both sides. Crazy part is no one cares.
Russia doesn’t export diesel Putin keeps clowning Trump over and over
Not more stupid, more treasonous
Diesel that we are buying from Russia is being shipped from Iran, our president is the best negotiator 😂
It's all planned, it gives energy companies more money and weakens America ability to protect ourselves
The humor is acting tough on the world stage wearing daipers that stick out of your butt and an orange face while everything else is pale white.
Its war between classes. The higher ups make "deals" and the people pay for them.
Oh, it's even dumber than that. Russia is importing diesel from Iran. We are now buying diesel FROM Iran through Russia to directly fund the war from both sides.
California closed refineries so we had to get it somewhere. We produce enough crude to take care of all of our needs but we don’t have the capacity to refine it.
It's all double dealing with the wealthiest getting wealthier a d the rest of us get to die for it.
Wars can be very profitable, unfortunately.
Its ouroboros
ever heard of money laundering schemes?
Yet Biden was writing blank checks to Ukraine with US tax dollars who is bombing US diesel supply. Let all of Eastern Europe self destruct in their own without the US taxpayer footing the bill
And they’re all corrupt so why would u even comment that😂
lol yes, how dare Biden support an ally? JFC you people will defend anything Trump does no matter how repellant.
now you finally understand how the rest of the world has always seen you usa
The real reason the epstein listnhasnt been released
Stupid americans elected stupid Trump.
And Ukraine gets funded by USA
Yep nothing new
The American people voted for this pedo rapist criminal fraud twice. Twice ffs. He’s not the only problem.
The war is fake. The video says that a supposed Iranian missile hit a parked car in Tel Aviv, but closer examination of the video shows no missle. The car, in fact, flips up from the bottom. I found this guy on B*tchute named jkrane694medical, and he has a number of videos about how the war with Iran is fake. At first glance, he seems kind of paranoid and out there, but the footage is quite convincing. He slows down the video and shows people the exact split second that the explosion takes place.
I can't post links to his channel because of Reddit censorship, but I can post this YouTube video from NY post and you can see for yourself.
https://youtube.com/shorts/puIQJC6e4uI?si=4f-yllSg-EZvJW4s
DM me for the links
Trump calls those accomplishments
U.S. buys IRANIAN oil from Russia.
It’s all just theater, people in Iran are living normal daily lives just like us.
It really isn't that different than the Iran-Contra scandal under the Reagan administration.
It is not so simple …
Politics is never simple
Especially when dumb people complicate things, like starting a major war in the Middle East...
Remember he's doing this to curb the diesel prices which rose due to the war with Iran he started
It's even worse, Russia is buying the oil from Iran and selling it to the USA.
Europe is the main buyer of Russian diesel
The US isn't buying oil from Russia. Europe never stopped buying oil from Russia. Get your facts straight.
Just diesel, yes. MAGA logic.
I don’t live in the US but I got a new alert that the US is buying diesel from Russia?? Numerous countries avoided Russian oil to avoid tariffs and now it’s 180 on that policy.
Dumbass
Are of the deal
Kremlin asset gonna Kremlin asset.
It’s called Circular war financing. Trump family getting rich from military contracts owned by DJT Jr and Trump family and friends.
It’s brilliant how he is able to pull this off. He is indeed, the GOAT
CORRUPTION
the stable genius
Iran exports Oil to russia, as they cant export it over sea, due the blockade. Just mentioning.
It's only stupid if you don't realize the point is to make the ruling class richer.
They have the money to buy up oil and sell it when the price spikes. They have shares of the companies making the bombs and drones.
Things like war are prohibitively expensive on paper and seem stupid-- But you have to consider whose money is being spent and who is profiting. We are footing the bill and they are getting rich.
Russia and Iran are the big kids in this sandbox. Trump is fucking Ralph Wiggum.
This is how war works
Canada supplies 63% of all USA oil imports. Canada could increase production by 4% to offset the increase in prices in the USA, as Canada has done in the past to help or friend.
But Trump is in a economic war with Canada.
Must feel weird being a US soldier in the Middle East and your president support countries helping Iran.
It makes a lot more sense when you accept Trump is a foreign asset and his loyalty is to Putin. Everything Trump has done is for the benefit of himself and/or Russia. That's it. This is why it seems like everything Trump does hurts Americans, because that is exactly the intent.
And Israel gets to profit with no losses and give their populace free state sponsored healthcare
the EU is funding a proxy war against itself?
But you pay 40% more for diesel at the pump.
The war is good for the trump family, thats all he cares about
It’s not about political logic. It’s about who’s getting richer in the process. Follow the money and all makes perfect sense.
Yes! These posts sure do.
Trump is fighting for Russia. Not for USA. He's a Russian spy.
Not as stupid to let Russia invade Ukraine and give Iran pallets of cash to build their nukes …. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Its like USA is helping Russia by funding them money via oil purchase
Just as planned no?
Then the war can be prolonged and feed the military industry.
Hahahaha are you literally brand new to American military campaigns???
We've been funding a war on ourselves since another republican shit heel started the war on drugs.
Truckloads of oil are streaming into Russia from Iran right now.
Absolute insanity
It isn’t stupid at all when you realize who trump is actually working for. Hint: it is not the US.
Thats called treason
4D chess
at least he's getting the ressources from ukrain and a nice 15 second dance insertion on tv (with him in the lead role) ... though, there probably won't be much ukraine left after putins mob went through ...
It's the forever war and it's nothing new. This is how the military industrial complex works. Politicians have insider knowledge and control wars and defense contracts. Start war, buy stocks, give tax money to defense contractors whose stock you bought, sell stock , make money
“We have all the money we need out of Russia.” - Eric Trump, 2013.
The felon is owned by Putin and must do his bidding because, as usual, the bankruptcy-in-chief can’t pay his debts.
he's fighting for isreal, this op point out the wrong circle, failfish
No war no money. The organizing principle of any society is for war. The authority of the state resides in its war powers.
putin probably laughing his ass off at how dumb trump is lol
or i guess trump could just be an agent working for trump and he's laughing at the american people instead
Don't forget that the Russians hold him with the tapes from 2013.
US funds war in Ukraine US pays for diesel from Russia Ukraine blows up Diesel plant in Russia US 😯
Trump is just an Idiot who should be finally impeached and send to prison
And isreal, dont forget them. The US buying oil from Russia, when they cant refine their own oil anymore thanks to ukraine, means the US is buying iranian oil and so the US is funding iran's campaign against isreal.
Republicans need to hear this. Supporting Isreal is an identity for them and trump isnt just putting the national security of the US in jeopardy by buying this oil but isreal as well.
Yeah, that's called treason.
Add to that the fact that Russia can’t even make enough for their own market and are importing it from Iran, it’s possible that the fuel Trump is buying is from Iran!
To all of idiots: economicaly fighting Russia and Iran in a same time is impossible, because of oil. So, Trump had to deal with someone.
They are all in cahoots. That was the point. Oppression sold in many forms while the dictators shake hands and wash away our entire tax base.
Its not stupid, you cobfuse trump with America. Probably on purpose
It's a conspiracy to commit suicide
B/S
A genius. I'm telling you it's 5 maybe 6 dimensional foreign policy. Everyone so confused they won't know who they were fighting.
MAGA baby keep on winning 😭
That's how fukd up the republican party are listening to an old git who starts shit to gain is and his family get richer and ends up spend billions of Americans money in fukd up war with Iran at least bush demolished his foes with pinache!and grace and had the will of people and listen to his generals ,all trump is doing is setting up another world war when that old bastard will be dead more than likely and Europe is again looking like Gaza !!!!
Well to be frank
China funds taiwan, and vice versa
Europe buys from russia oil
It makes perfect sense when you realize the Trump regime doesn't care about its soldiers. Trump people get what they want in this scenario, and Americans lose again.
I never thought that the decline of America will go that fast…! 🥴🤷🏼♂️
I never thought that the decline of America will go that fast…!
This sub is just bots whining about Trump wtf
I would say "USA buys diesel from Russia" and "Russia buys diesel from Iran" to make it more (unfortunately) accurate and hilarious.
Caheback is going to Trump. Its simple
USA circle jerk.
UZA
Hey, don't look at us. Literally all of us told you that electing that russian asset painted orange as the president is a phenomenally stupid Idea. But nooooo, you didn't listen.
I been tryna tell yall yall priorities fucked up
Not self promoting. Just didn't think I'd be able to use this little edit from 3 years ago
Russia buys oil from Iran to fleece to us 😂
Oh but it will!!
Remember this is the shit they circulate to divide us and the bigger atrocities are gaining while we are distracted by arguing over this. Having said this, fuck trump!
Im starting to think that perhaps war may be profitable. We should look into that. If it turns out to be true we should look into who is on the receiving end of said profit.
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Trump didn't and doesn't give a shite about anyone else but himself getting richer when Americans suffer Europe suffers and definitely Ukraine suffers cus an old twat like trump is ruining a great country called America ,where are the real people who can vote to get rid of this brain dead murderer who finances death by backing the regimes America vowed to help and defend,these 3 twats in the picture should be tried like the Nazis did aswell as netenyau,Israel got it bad in ww2 now they are as bad
Holy run on sentence
DJT…. Chucking America more each day
Kind of like Pedojoe releasing the strategic oil reserves and letting China buy it up to bring down gas prices
For today's fact that will get you banned from reddit -
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 Europe has given Russia 340 billion dollars for oil and gas.
In 2021 Europe imported 25% of it's oil from Russia, in 2025 the yearly import was only 2,2%. It's not always feasible to immediately stop importing a crucial product, but they at least made a serious effort to decrease the money given to Russia.
Seems to be going the same way as that Casino he managed..
Things only a Russian asset would do, again
What a stable genius xD
You are the stupid one. Europe and national are with Ukraine against Russia but they buy their energy from Russia. We are helping our country.
war is just money laundering for governments anyway. they don't care about the destruction or deaths as long as they're profiting, and they are
Vote these Republicans out in the Midterms!
Where? Where has he stabbed them in the back?? We give billions and billions of dollars to all of you cowards. Every year. You need to pay better attention and stop watching the biased news on CNN. And 1- we don't need them. But it's their waters and their obligation to their neighbors to respond. I don't understand why they are all afraid of Iran. We wouldn't have to police the area if they got together and did it themselves
Jean Beaudrillard was right about everything.
It's all written in The Art of The Deal.
none of em gaf about their people, they're just helping each other with population control so their elites can steal more from the countries
Circle jerkers
It’s the dumbest circle jerk in history
Usa is obliterating Iran. Russia pours precious resources it cant afford into Iran. US buys cheap oil from Russia because they need cash fast. Russia turns around and uses cash to support Iran, which usa immediately turns to rubble while training its troops on how to shoot fish in a barell. Usa wins, Ukraine wins. Russia is bankrupt. Iran is dead. Seems like a win win rofl
Like I said, like I said like I said like I said like I said like I said like I said like I said like I told you, mom and dad please don’t vote for this please please please please. We are so fucked.
Psst... Help me ease back this problem, that I've created, so it doesn't look bad for my third run at the presidency...
People make up shit and people buy it because of some cropped pic😂
If those magats could read, this would make them upset, or probably happy, who knows anymore
k6tcher 107 points (4 children)
Even to continue this logic: Trump blames Ukraine for attacking Russia's energy infrastructure and "raising" diesel prices. Russia supports Iran, and by doing so, supports the stranglation of the Strait of Hormuz which raises global diesel prices. Trump caused the crisis in Iran. Trump blames Ukraine. Putin wins.
Reasonable_Option493 43 points (3 children)
Everybody is playing him like a fiddle. Let's not forget Netanyahu, the guy who for decades has been saying that Iran has been "within weeks" of getting nukes. We also had an American journalist who was wearing a PRESS vest assaulted and robbed by Israeli settlers, and our mentally challenged and unqualified ambassador in Israel is nowhere to be found.
Regarding Russia, it's wild. Trump announces a deal with Russia regarding the import of fuel, hours later he questions the legitimacy of Zelensky and suggests that Ukraine needs a new leader. Trump is a puppet for Moscow. It's going to take decades to rebuild trust with our allies. Great job MAGA 👏🏻🤡
Affordable_Z_Jobs 8 points (1 child)
Yeah but Benghazi and private servers. And oh lawd the emails!?!
slog 3 points
Those buttery males really did a number on this country.
Friendly-Lychee-8508 5 points (1 child)
Sorry to say that, but it will never happen without big changes of you constitution, if this happened once it can happen again.
I think Trump have shown the world that USA is not trustworthy. Not your constitution, not your leaders and not your people (who voted him in).
Reasonable_Option493 2 points
Sadly, you're probably right.
Romanizer 5 points
Trump will soon send military aid to Iran to defend them against the imperialistic west. /s
mlbyas458 3 points (1 child)
I've said from the beginning he is an Russian asset. That is why Russians attacked democratic leaning polling places in 2024. Feels l like millions of Americans that still support this nonsense are also Russian assets.
_jump_yossarian 3 points
Don't forget that Iran supplied drones to Russia so they can attack Ukraine.