The facts
President Trump claimed on his social media platform that an energy ceasefire had been agreed upon by Russia and Ukraine, stating they pledged not to attack each other's energy infrastructure. However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy indicated he had not heard about the ceasefire before Trump's post, though he expressed readiness to comply if Russia reciprocated. Despite Trump's declaration, Russian drones later struck an energy facility in Kharkiv, injuring over a dozen people. Separately, Trump announced a decision to lift U.S. sanctions on Russian diesel fuel imports, aiming to lower domestic prices. Andrew Weiss, a former State Department official, described the idea of Russia significantly impacting diesel prices as a fantasy, noting the volume announced was a small fraction of U.S. demand. Ukrainian officials reportedly felt blindsided by the diesel deal, viewing it as a betrayal that would fund Russia's war effort. European leaders, meanwhile, reinforced their commitment to Ukraine and announced new sanctions against Russia's military industrial complex, emphasizing that now is not the time to ease pressure on Moscow.
Our take
President Donald Trump, the senile game-show host squatting in the Oval Office, posted a brain-fart on his shitty social media app claiming Russia and Ukraine had agreed to an “energy ceasefire.” This would be news to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said he hadn’t fucking heard of it before the dotard’s pronouncement. It would also be news to the Russian drones that proceeded to strike an energy facility in Kharkiv, injuring over a dozen people. So the ceasefire appears to be a figment of Trump’s rotting imagination, a fantasy truce where only one side - the one he likes - gets to keep attacking.
But the real kick in the ass was his separate decision to lift U.S. sanctions on Russian diesel imports. This, the bloated grifter claimed, would lower prices at home. Andrew Weiss, a former State Department official, politely called this a “fantasy,” noting the volume announced is a pathetic dribble of piss compared to U.S. demand. It’s a symbolic hand-job for Vladimir Putin, a tiny financial lubricant for the war machine crushing Ukraine. Ukrainian officials, rightly, feel fucking blindsided and betrayed. Their supposed ally just voluntarily funneled cash to the treasury of the state trying to exterminate them.
Meanwhile, European leaders - actual adults - announced new sanctions on Russia’s military complex, stating clearly that now is not the time to ease pressure. This creates a glorious diplomatic shit-show: the United States, under its absolute cunt of a president, is actively undermining the unified front against a genocidal invasion for a PR stunt about gas prices that won’t even work. It’s a two-fer of catastrophic idiocy: inventing a peace that doesn’t exist while sabotaging the real effort to achieve it. Trump isn’t conducting foreign policy; he’s having a public stroke.
