‘Trump, you magnificent bastard, I read your book!’
President Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are facing mounting criticism for creating a window for Russia to sell oil and gas to the global market via “narrowly tailored, short-term” sanction relief. However, few people are putting the issue into context, and the background here is exceptionally interesting.
According to the terms announced by Secretary Bessent, the license to sell applies solely to Russian crude or petroleum products loaded onto vessels as of March 12 and is valid through midnight Washington time on April 11. [Treasury Notice Here – OFAC Technical Details Here]
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The sanction relief license to sell will be done in globally recognized petrodollars and applies only to preexisting oil and petroleum products that are already in transit at sea. However, here’s where it gets very interesting and the ramifications are significant.
Immediately following the Alaska summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump, Russia restarted Arctic-2 LNG terminals and began increasing oil production for storage on ‘floating platforms.’ President Trump met with Putin on August 15, 2025, and the curious increase in Russian production began on August 18, 2025.
In the past six months Russia has been pumping sanctioned oil and gas and storing it on ships and mobile sea platforms, seemingly (at the time) with no customers. Suddenly, against the background of the Iran conflict, all of that previously stored ‘on the water‘ production, now worth double, is authorized for global sale (in petrodollars).
Either Russian President Putin is the luckiest guy in the world, or Russia knew something.
In 2025 what Russia did following the Alaska summit did not make sense; now it does and the ramifications are stunning.
President Trump was looking for a way to organize a strategic partnership with Russia on the issue of energy production but was hampered by the preexisting sanction regime and strong opposition from domestic and international politics.
The ‘coincidental’ timing’ of Trump meeting with Putin and then subsequently Russia producing massive amounts of oil and gas for storage on the water suddenly starts to take on an entirely new light. Did Putin know something was coming, something that would eventually make the Russian over production and ‘on the sea’ storage worth billions.
The implications here are quite remarkable; however, they simultaneously explain most of the behaviors since the Iran confrontation began.
Media reports highlight that Vladimir Putin was asked about a previous joint agreement for military support between Iran and Russia and why Russia did not respond when Iran was attacked. Foreknowledge would explain that reaction.
Additionally, the Russian Federation president never responded to the Trump operation to take down Venezuelan dictator Maduro and seize control over Venezuela’s oil production.
If there was some discussion inferring that a ‘limited sanction relief’ protocol might be possible, that would explain why Russia began storing oil and gas at sea.
This fact pattern would also indicate that President Trump’s decision toward Iran was made at least six months ago, with a set of geopolitical events planned between the Alaska summit and the eventual confrontation with Iran.
TIMELINE: Trump and Putin meet. Three days later Russia begins pumping oil/gas and storing it at sea. President Trump then triggers the Venezuela western hemisphere security operation; Russia stays silent. President Trump then triggers the confrontation with Iran; Russia rejects involvement. And then two weeks after the Iran confrontation begins, Trump removes sanctions on Russian oil/gas “in transit” at sea.
Suddenly all of the Russian produced and stored product ‘on the water’ has greater value and new customers.
Just a coincidence? No way.
The United States needs the oil/gas market stability that Russia can provide.
Venezuela was/is to Trump as Ukraine was/is to Putin.
We’ll keep watching.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
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I think this is more Trump anticipating Iran’s actions to hamper the oil market and Trump planning to find every way to combat Iran and keep the oil prices down and supply up, rather than him trying to partner with Russia.
Eight months ago, Russia began stockpiling oil and LNG offshore on their ships at great risk and upfront expense to themselves. I don’t see Putin as a gambler, not at this magnitude and not without an agreement.
Please enjoy the rest of your day, that’s exactly what I am going to do.
This has been found to be false using sundances own reference.
How’s that working out where you live? In Ft Worth, oil prices have exploded at the pump. They’ve gone from $2.29/gal to $3.49/gal with no end in sight. If my math is correct, that’s a 52% increase. If the Strait remains off limits to our navy, all the Russian/US oil in the world won’t slow this down. Sorry, but reality is sometimes painful.
Gas is $2.69 here
Doesn’t help that Commiefornia’s fomulation of Gasoline is largely manufactured overseas. Excess from Texas, or anywhere else in the US for example, cannot be sold in CA.
Thank Newscum.
Just read an article ‘Newsom’s Bejing over Bakersfield. ‘ Summed the situation up in the headline. He’s at every climate summit there is and then he imports oil to CA when Kern County can produce huge amounts. How can anyone take this nonsense out of Gavin’s mouth seriously?
No right minded person can Liz…
And we are expected to vote in the primary’s in June with no SAVE Act. Big Pharma doesn’t have enough drugs to make me sit still for this one….
CA refineries down from 40 to 6 under Gov. Hair Gel. Gas tax = up. But he’s blaming President Trump. Newsom’s like a totalitarian cancer.
Yet they keep electing the fool. You get what you vote for……… and you deserve what you get.
The Save Act is the solution: Xtra illegal voters tips the scale the wrong way.. even in “brain-washed” CA & MA where I am
Gavin is a 1000% idiot but to be fair, he isn’t responsible for 36 closures. The Dems are, but no all him or his admin are to blame.
Hear! Hear!
Idiots run this state.
The pump prices are going to lag behind improvements.
My gas provider got screwed by his delivery source. The guy called late one night and offered him a truckful of gas when oil was over $110/barrel — before it dropped to 80 the next day. So now my provider is stuck with gas he has to sell at higher than current market prices in order not to lose money.
And he’s got a kid in college and another in med school! $ $ $ !
You had better re-read Bruzed Orange’s post… it was the “provider” that got ‘screwed’, not the ‘delivery source… no?
Our servicemen are on the front line risking their lives, I can pay more at the pump as long as their effort isn’t for nothing. Bitching and undercutting President Trump only serves those that have a history of doing harm to our nation.
Tell the kid to get a part time job. That’s how I made it through college. It put a damper on my social life but it paid dividends later in life.
Yeah, that is just as good as I just want to impress my boss. I actually heard that. Worst close ever.
What were your gas prices during the auto-pen regime… with no end in sight? Oh and Iran had $16 billion made available to them with the help of the same regime… how did that work out? We’re paying for that now aren’t we?
Exactly! Thanks Dino. And, I guess a couple of weeks of “high” gas prices is a SMALL price to pay for getting rid of the Iran threat. And it isn’t just the idea of sociopathic lunatic cult monkeys with zero IQ shooting nuclear tipped missiles all over the world, and exporting the murdering and raping of millions, but playing the key role they have as the globalists ghoul’s primary tool. There are so many intersections at Iran that it is mind numbing to think about. For sure Barack Sodoma is somewhere in his basement shrine sitting on a pentagram and wailing. It’s worth that alone.
Right! If the folks in this rich Country cannot live with a few weeks of higher gas prices, in order to get rid of a murderous regime, it indicates those folks need to realign their priorities.
Hi, hope somebody makes an AI meme of that!
I’m with you Dino. Most people have very short memories. We are all paying for the short sighted voters choices in our states. I remember the expensive gas during the brain dead presidency and who brought it back down again. We just need to give it some time and it will return to normal. At least we don’t have gas lines like we did “back in the day”.
Retired Magistrate here: Evidently you did not live through the Carter years or if you did you forgot: We considered ourselves lucky to be able to even get gas. Depending on your last name that is the day you would get gas. Of course by the time you got to the pump the pumps could be empty. That situation went on for a long time. Also, Carter encouraged everyone to not put up Christmas lights and keep the heat turned way down to save electricity. We can’t forget the hostage situation either which made us the laughing stock of the world.
So, yes gas is up here in Delaware County to $3.29 but it is still available. You have to put things in perspective. if you have a roof over your head, food to eat and some gas in your car you are living the life.
It’s best to keep things in perspective, I agree. Some have sacrificed their very lives to defend our nation and the free world against a hostile, totalitarian global takeover.
Others may have to cough up a few more dollars at the gas pumps for a short while.
Oh! The inhumanity!
The gas companies just took unfair advantage at the gas pumps! Prices rose too quickly! Why? We do not depend on Iranian oil whatsoever! The US is now the world’s largest producer of crude and gas. None of this makes sense! The other day I paid $4.23 for ethanol free! You do get better mileage out of ethanol free. But, before the war it was $3.19. Something does not add up for American gas consumers!!!
I noticed the media hollering at Trump about gas prices. They didn’t say much when Biden was around. I can’t believe anyone listens to them anymore.
Yes, the rise of gas is not the fault of the war.
The brainwashed libtards are the ones listening to leftist media, which are being paid huge amounts of money to say what they are told to say. Imagine how much better our country would be with honest media and judges.
It’s a world market, and that’s what sets the price. If we weren’t producing as much as we are, and not long ago we were a net importer so this is fairly recent, gas would be way higher than it is now.
The gas companies are taking the advantage of Iran getting its rear end kicked… NOW THERE’S A SURPRISE! I guess you’ve never noticed that the price of gas goes up on a holiday weekend? I guess you’ve never noticed that a case of water goes up 5 Xs during a disaster situation. There are laws against it, but they are never enforced. The only thing you can do about it is not spend your money at the place that that’s happening at. While you’re at it, walk inside and tell the management why it is you’re willing to drive five blocks out of your way to spend your money elsewhere.
After all that people still vote for demonrats….
Only the dead ones … 😂
Including the brain dead ones.
Amen girl. I remember odd days/even days of gas rationing, depending on your auto’s plate number.
And as I recall in PA we could only get five dollars worth at a time!
Me too-I was a young 16-17 year old working in my dad’s gas station and female at that. lines around the block and no one got out of their car to pump their own gas back then. Fun times/s
Same here. And Jimmy wearing a cardigan sweater and giving one his fireside chats.
And telling families who could not afford extra clothes for everyone, to cut the heat down to 60 and put on an extra sweater. I despised Carter.
Those were so ASSuring!
Having a small collection of “alternare ” plates did much to relieve stress through the manufactered gas “crisis” back then. As explained by a friend, you know. Living in Bayonne, NJ you could see the tankers anchored offshore awaiting permission to unload.
Here, in most parts of Arizona, we get our gas from…..kalifornia…..The commies from the West recently shut down two refineries. Limiting supply. Couple that with Gov Hobnail ejected a proposal to get “regular” gas from elsewhere; because now we have a law that we can only use a….boutique blend… that isn’t that available from many other sources.
“Whatever liberals touch turns to shyt…’
You spelled ‘crap’ incorrectly.
Maryland also has more expensive boutique blends – one for summer and one for winter. Both reduce MPG. MD government wins because it collects more sales tax and, as usual, the consumers lose.
Truth! Thanks.
I had two Toyota Carollas. One plate had an odd number and the other one was even. All I had to do was switch plates whenever I needed gas!
HaHaHa! Love it!
Problem solved Patriot.
Perspective: gas prices at my station north of Garbageville / Riot-town have not come down at all since VSG came in to office. The government parasites of OR/WA just jack up the tax take.
My premium has been $5 gallon for years now.
Still pissed about the Christmas lights.
Been there with you! I remember when we first came back to the states, filling my mother‘s car up for under five dollars. Granted, it was a Volkswagen that they had brought back from Germany. Filling the car up yourself was not the norm, it was the exception, but it saved a few pennies, so my mom was on it! (Air Force salary with five kids… pennies mattered)!
You’ve got point,, my dear old dad once said, when asked; how will you know if your being a success?” If you have a roof over your head, the kids have food to eat, your bills are paid,,that,is success!
Beautiful — 100%
My Dad did as well
YEP, it SUCKED big time under Carter.!!!! We also had to Drive at speed 55 everywhere, Huge Inflation, the economy also Suck big time. NO JOBS!!!
And do not forget that travel on the Interstate Road System was at speeds from 35 to 55 miles per hour to save gasoline.
It was a joke.
Under Biden gasoline prices rose 160% in the first couple months after his inauguration at my nearest chain station because of his EO’s. They were over $4/gal for a while up from $2.35/gal. I think we can deal with it for a while.
The green new *steal* would raise gas pump prices to $10 per gallon or higher if they possibly could, to force a conversion to (not so green) electric.
I’ll bet the Supreme Court wouldn’t lose any sleep over “carbon taxes” bankrupting our very own American businesses. Because New World Order.
Yet people now complain about a temporary hike in gasoline prices, with all that we’re doing to shield our own nation (and our gasoline engines) from the One World Order’s climate change hoax.
Better yet, have the green new deal zombies fine you unless you buy “carbon credits” from China which are used to undercut the price for the car you were going to buy. Yet China produces fifteen percent more carbon emissions than the EU and North America *combined*. A scam by any other name.
The Green scam isn’t just on transportation.
My electric bill is some 20% higher than about the same timeframe the year prior, and I have been using less electricity to boot.
Cap and trade with respect to “carbon” credits and ruinables mandates are still forcing prices up on everything down range from the electric grid.
The institutional support for wind and solar ruinables must end for permanent relief. It cannot survive without subsidy as it is completely uneconomical.
It’s $6.33 for premium at Chevron this morning in Irvine, CA.
Your $3.49 is a steal! 🫡
Take a look at where Kalifornia buys its gasoline from since they closed the local refineries… there’s extra markup on Kalifornia’s imported gasoline.
Corporations like to jack sales prices, blaming it on “reasons” even when those reasons are not really affecting their cost.
Here in Los Angeles, I paid $4.56 last week
for 87 Unleaded at Costco. Today, the same is $5.30.
I am so glad I left California thirty years ago. It is beautiful and I hiked around all the National Parks, climbed in Joshua Tree, toured route 1, but the crazy people got so much worse.
We moved to SoCal in 1962 when I was 3 years old. It was beautiful, peaceful, and paradise. As I grew and our borders were opened up, I could see the changes happening. Pretty soon we had billboards in Spanish. People moved further and further away in an attempt to hang onto their culture and language.
By the time I graduated college in 1981 I could see that SoCal was going to turn into a cesspool. I got my diploma and 6 weeks later loaded up my car and moved 8 hours away to Northern Nevada. It was the best thing that I could have ever done.
Most of my family still lives there and they complain about it all of the time. But they still stay.
To an outsider, it looked like a good place to be in the 80s. But the changes were underway apparently; young people wouldn’t believe that, back then, California had republican governors and even some republican senators.
We don’t use oil from Iran. Don’t blame Trump blame the US oil companies who are capitalizing on the events.
Hey Ronald, maybe you can tell us what city you are in so we can compare and contrast how prices were under Biden-the-Girl-Sniffers term.
I will happily pay the higher prices if that rids us of Iranian Islamists and continues to destroy the system that both political parties got rich off of.
Cry me a river. $5.69 a gallon here in NorCal. I don’t even look anymore.
“No end in sight…” ????
Well, yes, there already is here in northwestern Ohio!
Prices peaked at $3.49 a few days ago and have gone down a dime or so every day this week:some stations are at $2.99/$2.89.
Deep breaths!
First of all, why are gas prices so high in Texas, of all places? And secondly, why don’t we have complete control of the Strait by now? Why is it off limits? Just asking!
It’s mined. It will take a while to secure.
Mines:
https://nypost.com/2026/03/14/us-news/keeping-strait-of-hormuz-safe-from-deadly-iran-drones-mines-could-take-months-with-high-tech-help/
They are gouging us.. Costco is at 3.39 today .. 423 (2/23) miles ago I paid 2.23 ..
I’d gladly pay $3.49/gal here in CA!!!
Sundance and you are correct. :0)
“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”
This business about “Russian response” needs further explanation. Surely the writer is not suggesting that the “Russian response’ is any way a military response which the Russians are not capable of particularly when one considers that Russia can’t even defeat the Ukraine much the insanity of taking on the US.
If Putin knows Trump at all he knows Trump does not bluff so it is quite conceivable that Putin figured that Trump would eventually attack Iran.
But putins plan to bet on an Iran war came right after his meeting with Trump. Does it really matter if it was a wink and nudge versus an agreement with a handshake?
Russia is not fighting just Ukraine: its fighting against U.S. weapons given to NATO to use as they will. It Russia was merely fighting Ukraine we wouldn’t even be have this discussion.
The entire United States senate will be incensed.
The entire US senate should be shown the “exit” door…we can’t hate them enough.
As odorous as they are, they need all the perfume they can get 🙂
“Incensed”? You mean like a burnt offering?
Your terms are acceptable!
Do you think that they will all get mad enough that they will all quit? Do you think we could get that lucky?!
Putin must have a great deal of trust in our wonderful President Trump. When even our “enemies” trust him, that speaks volumes about Trump’s character.
God bless President Trump.
Putin knows the entire Russia hoax was brought down by our sick Dot Gov administrators. He knows what PDJT has suffered at the hands of these traitors. I think Putin’s trust in PDJT is way beyond the old “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” viewpoint.
Cyrus the Great would conquer enemies not by brute force and oppression, but by having them join him and prosper.
Sound familiar?
Vladimir Putin isn’t our enemy!
Agree!
This is a win for the world’s economy. Without Russia’s energy, there would be too much short-term disruption.
Sundance you have a beautiful mind. Your assessment is highly plausible here and I pray it is correct as this would suggest that this Iran war will end much more swiftly. I continue to pray for Trumps discernment along with Putins.
Another WW2 comparison.
Mid 1940, we moved to base our Pacific Fleet in the shallow harbor in Hawaii. Pearl Harbor was shallow so torpedoes dropped from airplanes would plunge into the muck and stop.
After France fell to Germany, the Japanese contemplated taking French Indochina. They concluded that we would embargo them which would set off a war, so in September 1940, they only took the northern part.
In November 1940, the British used modified aerial torpedoes to attack and destroy Italian battleships in the shallow Taranto Harbor.
We did not recognize that Pearl Harbor was no longer safe against aerial torpedoes.
Yamamoto realized the significance and started a crash course to invent an aerial torpedo modification to successfully drop torpedoes in shallow water. They made it in August and successfully tested it in September.
Yamamoto also began planning the attack on Pearl Harbor in January. His plan had a huge resistance within the navy. The Japanese Navy finally approved the plan in October. The attack set off in November, but the Emperor’s approval was Dec 1.
So when did the Japanese truly decide? Looks like an inevitable march to war.
Well back when we were moving our fleet, they were deciding that all the French, British, Dutch and American possessions would be included in their Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. India and Australia too. July 1940.
Giving up on including half of Russia began when Russia massively destroyed their attack in 1939, grew stronger in this conference but was not settled on until after Barbarossa began.
But meanwhile, remember Indochina? The act that Japan was sure would trigger War by starting embargoes? They also went and took the rest in July of 1941.
And then they were surprised and offended when Roosevelt embargoed Japan. Enough so that many think it was Roosevelt starting the war.
The decision to fight America was made when Japan decided they would take the Philippines and other American territories by force. July of 1940. The rest is just the process of making it happen. But still, final approval, the official decision, was not made until Dec 1941.
That process included interactions and independent actions by Japan’s ally, Germany, as well as neutralizing a long time enemy, Russia, with a non-aggression pact.
To be clear, Japan wanted to rule all of Asia and the western Pacific since the Meiji Restoration, a few years after Perry forced trade. The wars with China and Russia over the years were all part of that long term goal.
And it’s entire navy had been built with the singular goal of defeating America’s navy. It is funny, but both of us war-gamed it starting with the assumption war would start with Japan invading the Philippines, we would send our navy and we would fight. The Japanese did not yet fully understand the power of their new weapons. The super torpedoes and their carrier aircraft would ‘weaken’ our fleet, and in a great battleship contest they would destroy us like they did the Russian fleet in 1905.
So a long term wish became an actual goal in July 1940. They knowingly began the run up to war in July 1941. The change from planned battleship fight to surprise carrier attack began after the British made proved it possible in November 1940, which Yamamoto saw and pushed through. But even though everything was in process in November, the decision was made final in December.
I lay this out because it is really hard to lay down when this war destroying Iran was truly decided. Also important to note, the August dates are 2 months after Israel’s twelve day war against Iran, including our bombing of the under mountain nuke facility.
This is all very interesting but the fact FDR knew the attack was coming and let it happen makes all this strategery moot.
Nope. FDR still believed his charisma could solve everything.
And he did not know about the fleet to attack Pearl. He did know about the invasion fleet heading to Malaya.
But for my point. Your nonsense is irrelevant.
I described Japan’s decision process. Not FDR’s
My point is that it is difficult to put a finger on a specific decision point. Except for the Emperor’s ultimate decision, there were many decision points necessary to move forward to the surprise attack. All of them had already committed to that attack before the Emperor made it final.
FDR certainly did know that Pearl Harbor was going to happen.
George Morgenstern in his book, “Pearl Harbor: The Story of the Secret War” lays it out. FDR and Churchill both knew.
¥ou are correct—even FDR’s Secretary of State later admitted that it was all planned and FDR KNEW!!!!!
Thank you, Sundance, for providing us with research, and then allowing it to suggest a narrative, rather than providing only data that fits an existing narrative.
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And I LOVE that photo of Marco staring at (staring through?) Zelenskyy!
If one image could suggest what I want from my government in the international sphere… that would be it.
Couple that with the “stare in Southern” meme and that pretty much some up how we feel about the EU, Zelenskyy and Canada
Awesome photo!
I don’t think President Putin attended the Nancy Pelosi school of market future prediction here…
Go President Trump
Make The World Great Again.
“We can do it the hard way or the easy way, Vladimir; let’s do it the easy way!”
I love that movie.
Is that really the name of a movie?
Assuming all in the article is correct, there are serious implications for Europe and their plan to manage the ucranian conflict. Putin gets a massive cash infusion and he regains tactical advantage there. Europe will now be engaged in the financing of the conflict, and maybe even put boots on the ground.
I would say that the divorce between the E.U. and the U.S. is reaching the point of no return.
U mad, bruh?
World War Reddit was a scam from the get-go.
The EU can pound sand.
Not only did they know, they more than likely decided to use the opportunity to help the US in removing Iran and Venezuela from China’s grasp. Russia priority now is ending the knock-down drag out fight in Ukraine, but long term it’s to try to stop China from expanding her influence, a perennial fear of the Russian’s, something ignored by some commentators who believe the tired leftist cliche of solidarity between nations, based on nothing more than vague notions of internationalism.
The US can help in both these strategic interests, and the Russians can help the US in both, a perfect symbiosis based on a mutually beneficial outcome. The US isolates Ukraine from its Euro proxies and delivers a much needed crimp in the Chinese strategy that threatens Russia, whilst Russia provides valuable intelligence to assist the US efforts.
This is encouraging. I assume this will cause gas prices to retreat, or at least not escalate. In any event, even if they do continue to escalate, it is short term until we prevail with the Iran operation.
That’s cool. However, the cost of oil affects shipping and delivery costs which in turn raises the costs of the products we buy. And unlike gas at the pump, once prices go up they don’t go back down.
Is there a remedy for this or am I overestimating the effect on prices?
Gas goes up and gas goes down. 🙄
Correct, I have no worry on gas price. I only wonder about the increased cost of shipping getting baked into the cost of consumer goods. Will those prices go down too?
Time heals all (most) wounds.
Sometimes “out”, as in the NYT!
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Pres Trump knew Iran was planning an attack, even after their nuke capabilities were greatly diminished by being flattened. IMO he decided to remove the Iran threat completely and permanently. He also knew that the Iranians negotiation tactics were to threaten and then to expect massive payments to keep quiet, and that’s exactly what they did. Remember what they said after the 1st attack? “But we just started negotiating?!” They provided the ammunition required to start the campaign.
4D chess.
There are no coincidences. Thank you for putting it together.
There are presently 175 million barrels of Russian oil on ships which are sanctioned by the United States.
In addition, Russia can produce 10.5 million barrels a day the equivalent of the amount of ME Oil currently blockaded by Iran through the Straits of Hormuz.
Seems logical if you want the price of oil reduced substantially that ending the sanctions on Russian Oil is a good idea! 🤔
Saving Israel for last.
If what you say is correct, and it most certainly seems so, then (other than some billions) what does Russia get, geopolitically?
Ukraine?…
“The sanction relief license to sell will be done in globally recognized petrodollars”
Key term: petrodollars. And in order to spend them, you have to get them. Sounds like a torpedo just BRICS broadside.
Evrything. Everywhere. All at once.
I got to say, that picture of Rubio staring down at the little man is great!!
City of London is gonna have a conniption.
I’m waiting patiently for Russia to boot stomp Ukraine.
Personally, I think that President Trump and President Putin respect each other and are aligned with the policies they want for their respective countries. I do not believe that President Trump views Russia (or President Putin) as an ‘enemy’. Just as President Putin did not intervene in Venezuela and Iran, I believe that President Trump understands Russia’s issues regarding Ukraine (and would feel similarly, if in the same situation), and while attempting to provide a diplomatic way out of the Ukrainian conflict, he is not intervening in any more impactful way. What a different world it would be, if Russia and the US were allies.
“…………the license to sell applies solely to Russian crude or petroleum products loaded onto vessels as of March 12 and is valid through midnight Washington time on April 11.”
I’m receiving a somewhat less than subtle hint here that there’s going to be some major things happening with the war, and Iran’s attempted influences on shipping in the gulf, sometime between now and April 11th.
I’ve noticed there’s a pattern with Trump and his actions:
1) He tells the world what he is going to do.
2) His detractors mock him and do not take him seriously.
3) Those same people act in total shock (denial) when Trump’s plans come to successful fruition.
Be sure to tune in
tomorrowApril 12th for your next installment of Trump Getting Things Done.“…the license to sell applies solely to Russian crude or petroleum products loaded onto vessels as of March 12 and is valid through midnight Washington time on April 11.”
I noticed that also earlier, and your list is on target.
Allow me to address #2: President TRUMP’S detractors can be explained in two ways. Some are complete defenders of the status quo and do not want any changes for the better for the rest of us.
Others are liars by nature and profession: mendacity is their forte’ and they believe that President TRUMP is also a liar, who cannot possibly believe what he says.
But he does NOT lie and does believe that he can change the status quo!
And as his changes occur, even if slowly, they cannot wait to undo whatever he has accomplished and turn back the clock!
Always remember and never forget: The Communists/Globalists want prosperity for themselves, The TINY Club * of elitists, at our expense.
*George Carlin was wrong: It is a very tiny club, not a big one! His second part is correct: they will never let us in! Perhaps he meant that the club is full of people, who think they are BIG, but even so, they are in truth very small in every way, compared to us!
IIRC, Putin & Trump had a meeting…without interpreters. Putin does speak English (when he wants to). Only read it once, but it makes perfect sense as to the context of that meeting now, if that was accurate. Given this article, I believe it to have been true.
Four dimensional chess notwithstanding, I believe that Trump sees Putin and Russia as Euro-Asian counterparts to himself and America. This amazing president is juggling regions of the world as no one has ever done before: the Donroe doctrine; calming sub-Saharan Africa (no, wait .. Iran’s influence); letting China get enough petroleum to get by; AND serving notice in the Middle East that violent jihad will not be tolerated.
His most impressive accomplishment of all, waiting for some other hotspots to cool, will be wresting the world’s economies from the all-controlling huge financial houses. In that endeavour, Putin and Russia will be invaluable allies, after aiding the Shatter Belt countries to escape Euro domination, drawing them into trade patterns that mirror and favour the Americas bloc.
These are the occasional glimpses of the fact that the conflicts are all theater, the major nations are all working together behind the scenes to steer the world toward the coming “multi-polar global governance” with industrial/scientific leader China the de facto head.
” industrial/scientific leader China” I find a great deal of humor in that statement.
OK… Let’s Do the Math and Follow the Money… {I’m using Google Ai}
# of Gallons of Gasoline used per Day in USA = 375,000,000
There has been about a .50cents/gallon Increase since the war…
Number of Gallons of Gas Used PER PERSON in the USA/per Day… Equal = 1 … Yep ONE,,, UNO for you Spanish Speakers.
{ONE GALLON That’s CORRECT… we have 375 Million people in the USA}
MATH IS:
375,000,000 Gallons Used
x .50 cents
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$187,000,000 Dollars Increase per Day
Divided by 375,000,000 million Americans = .49866666
ARE YOU WILLING TO SPEND .49 Cents a Day to END THE NUCLEAR THREAT IN IRAN.???
HELL YES.!!! ($15.oo a Month.!!! That’s 2 Starbucks.!!!)
Who knew, the biggest winner of our military action against Iran isn’t Israel, it’s Russia. We and the Israelis just took out their biggest competitor.
Watch Tucker completely ignore that fact.
spewed tea up my nose .. lol..
Biden drained the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve. But there’s less of a need to tap our own Strategic Petroleum Reserve when there is a huge Russian Shadow-Fleet “Petroleum Reserve” already out there just floating idly on the water.
Add this tidbit:
@chigrl
US Waiver Frees Up 19 Million Barrels of Russia Oil for Purchase. Russian crude oil and fuel on about 30 tankers in Asian waters is potentially available for purchase after the US granted a temporary waiver to buy cargoes that were already at sea. The vessels are carrying at least 19 million barrels of Russian crude and 310,000 tons of refined products…The product is mainly naphtha — used to make plastics — and some diesel, prices of which have surged since Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz. /chigrl/status/2032358169477824641
I think SD overlooked a major fact in the article he linked to to support the following statement:
“Trump and Putin meet. Three days later Russia begins pumping oil/gas and storing it at sea.“
But the article says Russia only pumped LNG, there’s no mention of oil anywhere (I looked all over the web and on Yandex).
Further, this all happened in 2023, not after the Alaska meeting with Trump.
Aug 18th, 2025:
“Last year, Russia started shipping LNG from its flagship Arctic LNG 2 project—but not to customers. The shipments were made from the Arctic project to floating storage units either in Russia or in European waters, as potential customers were unwilling to buy the sanctioned LNG.”
So what gives?
Read the article. The citation you quote was from the author trying to figure out why Putin would restart Arctic 2, when the last time he did it in 2024 resulted in stored LNG.
Russia shut down Arctic 2 during 2025, until the Trump summit.
Then began a process to restart that would only result in more offshore storage.
Excellent. Thank you.
I’m sitting here listening to Steve Bannon’s War Room. I’m a bit irritated with these people commenting on the Russian oil issue. They are so one sided and I’m sure have it all wrong.
Also how they are saying… oh, Trump didn’t anticipate the Iranians would keep on fighting… Hell, I knew that! Of course, Trump knows!
Thanks for your observations and analysis, Sundance! Makes a lot of sense.