Posted on 04/01/2025 12:14:13 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
United States President Donald Trump has expressed his frustration with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as he believes the latter is "slow-rolling comprehensive ceasefire talks," Fox News reported on Tuesday, citing sources.
According to the sources, due to such behavior, the Trump administration is mulling "aggressive" sanctions enforcement that would affect Russia's "shadow fleet," among other things. The sources explained that the sanctions enforcement is currently "low," more specifically "level 3 out of 10."
The sources went on to say that some 70% of Russia's illegal oil sales are done with the use of the "shadow fleet."
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The “article” uses “a” lot of “quotes” and that’s annoying.
Jacqui Heinrich from Fox News is the reporter who first reported the news.
But I was told that Zelensky is the one who doesn’t want peace! What is one to believe?
I think that it is all Ukraine’s fault. After all, after Russia invaded Ukraine, the warmongering Ukrainians refused to surrender their country like nice little sheeple. How was Russia to know that their “Special Military Operation” would take more than two weeks?
I just laid out the oil numbers elsewhere and won’t again here.
Probably worth asking what is an “illegal oil sale”? because if the intent is to label all 7.4 million bpd of Russia’s export illegal, then I can outright assure them that 70% of that is not even on ships, shadow or otherwise. It’s Asian pipelines via Transneft.
Enormous oil totals flow by pipeline to China and India, and even more is intermixed in Khazahkstan with Kazakh oil and Azerbaijani oil, and then is pipelined . . . also to China’s voracious 16.5 million bpd consumption.
How provocative would the Russians consider an unexpected interruption in their export pipeline flow to China and India? Is there alternate delivery means redundancy for the Russians to get most of it to China and India by shadow fleet tankers instead? That it, if their pipelines kept going offline indefinitely? Is this am act of war? How about sinking their shadow fleet?
How deep down the rabbit hole here do we want to go?
They never actually name those "sources," nor do they link to the alleged Fox News source article.
"Russia Collusion" deja vu all over again.
Ahhh... the old Patton quote. Patton also believed in reincarnation, and thought he fought in the Punic Wars and with Napoleon.
As a tanker and cavalry officer, he was among the best ever. As a man, we was an aristocrat, a bigot, and pagan.
I would never contest him on matters of armored warfare.
On other things, he was just the nutty old guy next door.
Both sides are stalling. Everyone is gunning for one last bit of land.
In other words, it's a story planted by Rupert Murdoch, who desperately wants to continue the proxy and sanction war against Russia and has no credibility.
This just another leak of desperation by globalists trying to manipulate Trump.
Any time you post as much as you do here, you know things are falling apart for Ukraine.
China gets a few mbpd from Iran or KSA. The ports are there for ships. China certainly has some oil tankers that are outright flagged Chinese and could escort them.
But where you are really going is a desire to somehow bomb the pipelines going from Russia to China. That would be something you would do if you are at war with both nations. I can’t see how it happens before any war with them exists.
Bottom line — China’s consumption growth is undeniable and Russia’s 7.4 mbpd of export can feed it. They just won’t care about sanctions. It’s all PR.
Say goodbye to Putin’s shadow fleet, Ivan.
Trump has also mentioned that Zelensky has once again decided to nix the rare minerals deal that he had agreed to do.
He isn’t happy with either side.
That would seem to be highly likely.
Russia can win everything they want on the battlefield and have no reason to observe a ceasefire. The only deal to be made is a surrender from the Ukraine government in Kiev.
President Trump is on the losing end of this deal. The best he can get is some face-saving measures in exchange for dropping sanctions on Russia. That might be good enough.
The USA cannot continue with the Ukraine war. We must focus attention in other areas.
The lesson from Ukraine is that competent military force matters more than anything else. That and the unrelenting political will to use that force. We have neither characteristic at present.
It is the same lesson that we are seeing with the Turks in Armenia and Syria. It is the same lesson that we are seeing with Israel in Syria and Lebanon. It is the same lesson that we are about to see with mainland China and Taiwan.
We have been very slow learners. It has been easy for us to use military force against 3rd-world opponents, and we have done a lot of that. It is not so easy to use force against peer opponents and we have allowed our forces to deteriorate in skills and stamina to where we are simply outclassed in some areas.
It will require time and money that we do not currently have in order to fix this. We had best stay out of any major peer conflicts until we have that time and money.
We must fix our domestic problems first.
Russia has the ball 1st and goal on the one yard line and now the US wants a ceasefire. That’s how they look at it.
You forget what happened to Patton after he got mouthy like that.
He very nearly got sent back to the USA and sacked from the Army. They all wanted to sack him. Eisenhower was most likely the one who prevented that.
The man simply could not keep his mouth shut nor control his emotions.
The only reason they did not can his ass is because he was a brilliant tactical general.
If he had controlled himself, he likely would have been in the position that Bradley had.
You really need to get a life.
That's gonna leave a splotch mark!
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