October 17, 2026
Trump Suspends 100% Tariffs on Top Importers of Russian Oil
Timothy Birdnow
Zelensky really should have known better than to flip Trump the bird.
Beggars can't be choosers and ingrates wind up losers.
While the President did not name the five largest customers for Russian crude they are China, India, Turkey, and the European Union.
The Lindsay Graham sanctions had a provision that said the President could waive these sanctions if he believed it was in the national interest. Trump invoked that to Congress, although he did not say HOW it is in the national interest. (Of course that should be self-explanatory as the price of diesel has exploded and at this point we would be killing allies and countries with which we are not at war at the moment. It clearly would be in our interest to avoid a world-wide economic crash.)
But the pleasant thing about this is Zelensky bombed oil refineries after Trump asked him nicely to not do that, and when asked about it he dismissed Trump and America's concerns with a haughty "I'm done". Well, so are we Mr. Zelensky.
If you or any other country wants our help you had best be polite to us. Gone are the days where foreign "allies" could dump all over us and still expect us to pick up the check at the end of the day.
We're done!
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The reality is Ukraine has already damaged Russias ability to produce diesel for years so why should Zelensky care. What I dont understand is why the European countries arent on Zelenskys butt. In Belgium diesel is going for about $9.15 a gallon. Talk about a hurting, yet they are silent as Zelensky makes it tougher on them. The trade off must be what Ukraine is doing to the Russian military in losses in men and material. Ukraine has managed to reclaim about 150 square miles of territory. The territory reclaimed is a junk yard of burned out Russian vehicles and rotting corpses of dead Russians.Losses in men run from 500,000 to a million. Losses in material is running in the 100s of billions. To bad Trump cant make Putin see the light and sit down and talk peace.
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