There has to be a purpose to this messaging, though I’m not exactly sure what it is.
President Trump again draws attention to the Ukraine-Russia war creating havoc on the global diesel market. Trump notes that Russia has lost control of its diesel industry:
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The strange thing about this message is that Russia has taken measures exactly the opposite of this framework.
Back in July, when NATO began increased targeting of Russian refinery infrastructure, Russian President Vladimir Putin proactively signed a government order banning the export of Russian diesel fuel. There have been no exports of Russian diesel since, with exceptions to the shipping industry and some humanitarian farm shipments.
Russia is the world’s second largest producer of diesel fuel and as soon as Putin made this announcement global prices of diesel began to rise. Russia then extended the bans, and the current export ban will run from Aug. 1 until Jan. 31, 2027.
Within the export controls there’s no doubt Russia is sending some diesel fuel to allied nations who are not part of the NATO attack alliance. In essence, Putin is controlling who gets the Russian output and the “ban” on exports simply puts the Russian government in control of it. This is what they call “intergovernmental agreements” which are not part of the ban itself.
Something about the western messaging on this issue just isn’t making sense.
Summary. Russia’s positon:
- Ban Duration: July 8, 2026 – January 31, 2027
- Products Affected: Diesel, gasoline, marine fuel, gas oils
- Exemptions: Direct producers, humanitarian shipments, intergovernmental agreements
- Reason: Domestic fuel shortages, refinery disruptions, price stabilization
- Global Impact: Reduced diesel supply, higher international prices, market tightening
The ban reflects Russia’s strategy to prioritize domestic fuel security while cautiously allowing limited exports to mitigate economic and geopolitical pressures.
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President Trump would not be messaging against Russia’s interests. There’s an element to this narrative that we cannot yet fully identify.
I suspect President Trump is messaging this issue because he is specifically positioning the USA for an export ban on diesel fuel. All of our “allied” downstream dependents would immediately be in freak out mode if the USA did this. So, President Trump has to enhance the position that diesel is increasingly a national security interest right now.
That’s how the issue reconciles.
President Trump putting an export ban on U.S. diesel would be intensely damaging to Europe, specifically the EU-NATO group. However, that same U.S. ban on exports would increase the pressure on Europe to support a solution to the conflict.
He is looking past the world as it is today to the world he works to create.
Then why is it alleged that American and star link satellites have been the one’s providing the Ukrainian drones with the guidance required to hit refineries and other targets in Russia — right from the gitgo. Ukraine don’t have no satellites.
Despite providing tracking, mapping, and target-reconnaissance intelligence, European and U.S. officials strictly maintain that Ukraine acts independently regarding the execution and timing of these strikes. Western allies do not directly control the drones or provide real-time terminal guidance system overrides. [1] google AI
What does that have to do with the idea that the President is looking to move the world past this war? He clearly is alone in trying to stop this disaster, which he certainly did not create.
I thought we voted for him three times in order to MAGA, not run the world and start new wars!
Did he start the war in Ukraine?
could PT be helping PP go long on his diesal?😁😎
I wonder if the President is giving an opportunity for RUS to “clarify” who is getting the benefit of its diesel, with an implied (to EU) “you can get some too if we’re not all at war.”
Point blank … what a joke the President moralizing and chastising Russia while sitting by as US Government Assets participate in the destruction of Russian assets..
He is as big a part of the problem as the EU Governments.
So many off ramps have been by-passed to get the US out of the Ukraine Conflict, to be a really neutral party, have been passed that his statements now qualify as gaslighting.
That China Inc. and Russia are aiding Iran was never in doubt and who can blame Russia after the carnage the US has assisted in wrecking inside Russia … and more likely, the EU launching the latest strike on Moscow was done to make the truth plainer than day … the President has zero control over US assets in the Ukraine.
Those EU Launched (from the Ukraine) Munitions include major US components … so much for ITAR.
Z-man is not the one thumbing his nose at the President …. it is the EU and the Executive Branch assets inside the US Government the President DOES NOT CONTROL. Z-Man is nothing more than a useful goad, and puppet.
Point blank-Sundance’s theory makes way more sense than your theory.
President Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that he is no “joke.” In fact, our President is a very serious, very stable genius.
“Z-man is not the one thumbing his nose at the President …. it is the EU and the Executive Branch assets inside the US Government the President DOES NOT CONTROL. Z-Man is nothing more than a useful goad, and puppet.”
Well said…there is a 3-letter agency which may have more answers and it does not start with a “d” or an “f”. If I were betting, I would wager that this particular agency has more tentacles in the Ukraine debacle now than any other country does. The money laundering and interference going on for years seems to be coming to an end. There seems to be a great need to continue some control and international chaos.
It appears that first President Trump is making the point that Russian / Ukrainian situation is a big part of the fuel price spikes Americans are suffering.
Essentially, he’s pointing the blame away from anything he has done or is doing. He also stresses the growing list of lost lives Of the Russia Ukraine War. Both should argue for ending the hostilities now. Perhaps a set up for PEACE before Nov. 3???
It is also likely that he is laying the groundwork for a US ban on fuel exports. (perhaps now that Q3 is almost done it won’t harm US export numbers too much before the election, as Q4 will still be ongoing).
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“There has to be a purpose to this messaging, though I’m not exactly sure what it is.”
Perhaps partly to open the door for a conversation about our domestic diesel situation.
Perhaps partly to open the door for the conversation about US change of policy in that war.
Perhaps both.
And, to add in, to tell the nation to buckle up. Things are spiraling out of control.
I really have no idea but to speculate.
wouldn’t the ban also increase diesel inventory in the US driving prices lower here?
Quite the opposite and why I said this yesterday on here when asking people to fill up and conserve as best they can, I also added to that… “Keep an eye on Diesel because this is where things get real ugly, this and Jet fuel.”
There are so many things bubbling beneath the surface that most people have no idea what’s happening. We have been in a debt crisis and it only gets worse. This is where Japan and Europe are trapped and why Bessent and Warsh think they can control things, THEY Can’t!
And why people will be confused when Gold and our markets will hit more new highs. The Markets are telling, if people would just observe, what is going on.
This isn’t about Trump being some genius, this is about Capital Flows. The Markets always set the prices!
that would be the point (mostly). The other side benefit is that the EU would immediately be buried like dead dogs. Their windmills and solar farms can’t make diesel.
Squeezing the EU to stop this insane war
To cure the diesel problem redirect all of the corn oil going in to producing methanol as an additive to gasoline and produce biodiesel with the corn oil! Gasoline engines will run more efficiently with less methanol caused damage and everyone driving diesels will be driving around smelling like POPCORN and who doesn’t like popcorn?
basically it takes as much energy to produce a gallon of ethanol from corn, as there is energy in a gallon of ethanol.
When you factor in the poor efficiency of ethanol when burned in an engine, the mandated use of ethanol is a net loss of energy for the United States.
That does not factor in the losses from damage to fuel tanks/storage and damage to IC engines from using ethanol or, the added cost of infrastructure to separately store it and pump it.
Much better to make whiskey with corn and have more cookouts.
Very Stable Genius President Trump is always strategic. We cannot pay $8 for a gallon of diesel for very long before it starts upsetting folks.
A Ban on exports should drop prices substantially pretty quickly. Let’s hope he announces it at the U.N. today.
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SD: Your explanation is the most plausible. The EU/DS is playing a silly and dangerous game and they will ultimately win silly prizes (like astronomically high energy prices, even worse than current).
this aligns very much with what i thought.
remember how our host outlined the curious increase in Russian production
and off shore storage of LNG after – after – sanctions had been placed on it?
which was then sold by Russia later at a wildly increased profit.
it’s like that.🤣
create a perception of scarcity and watch the global market ninnies
fall all over themselves trying to get what you’ve got…
and the price just goes up and up and up resulting in a tidy pile of cash for Russia.
and who is in most desperate need of Russian petroleum products?
why, the good ole EU.
so, while the EU rattles their sabres,
they will be spending what little money they have left on Russian fuel at premium prices.
i’m pretty sure that’s called “irony”. 😂
“an export ban on U.S. diesel would be intensely damaging to Europe, specifically the EU-NATO group.”
Sounds good to me.
I hope President Trump says that USA diesel exports to the nations supporting the Ukraine war will cease — until they are serious about peace in Ukraine.
Maximizing pressure on the EU to end this and support whatever peace plan that Trump supports.
It’s false-flag time for Europe.
Seems the old saying is wrong…money is NOT the root of all evil…retard, commie europeans are
Fear and perception cause an increase in prices more than reality, at least short term. So even though Russia halted exports, strikes on Russian facilities basically rocks the market with the thought that things can’t and won’t return to normal when in fact nothing has fundamentally changed since Russia stopped exports.
US is #1 exporter of diesel (Distillate Fuel Oil) in the world (1,007 Thousand Barrels per Day),
Russia is #2 (841 Thousand Barrels per Day)
https://www.indexmundi.com/energy/?product=fuel-oil&graph=exports&display=rank
we are subsidizing the green policies of all of these nut-job nations. People here laugh and them, but they laugh at us because we are paying for it as well even though our President has moved us away from all of that. This is what happens when all critical commodities are under the control of globalist money changers and their “marketplaces”.
Opt-out please. America First means America First in all things. Screw the EU and their piglets.
Maybe we are gonna take out Garden Gnome (zelensky) and his military power structure and Putin will release all those diesel reserves.
End of crisis?
There aren’t many weeks to the midterm elections so if Trump want to implement the ban it would have to be very VERY soon.
It’ll take a week or so for prices to trickle down to US consumers.
I suspect Trump will launch an investigation into gauging to force companies to lower prices in light of increased supply to the domestic market.
But all this will take another 2-3 weeks to permeate the national consciousness / zeitgeist and combat the inflation / gas prices narrative.
So…. If he does implement the ban it’ll have to be…. NOW.
The EU and NATO have apparently not yet reached the point at which ending the war in
Ukraine becomes in their own interests. Perhaps a US ban on diesel exports might do it.
The question is, from my perspective, what exactly does NATO and EU hope to gain by destroying their economies even further.
The bombing of Russian fuel production will only give them very short term gains, the price to pay will be very high since they depended on Russia for fuel. Do they expect the U.S. to jump an and save their rear ends?
They asked for it, they got it.
They still have their windmills and solar panels to fall back on.
With winter coming they’ll do just fine as they freeze in their homes without food being delivered to the stores.
European vacation, anyone?