Buckled for nothing and it won't even work because the sanctions were passed by Congress and even Roberts isn't that much of a partisan hack, yet.

furious

I dispute that. Way too clickbaity, but that's just the way of headlines these days.

The interview this is based on uses the word "exasperated" which I find much more fitting.

But they aren't posting about a politician or famous person. They are posting about this cuck Gunther.

That's what I thought too, 300.000 tons might sound like a lot but the US (not even including the global markets part of the post) use A LOT of fuel. It's quite literally a drop in the bucket

If your maths is off I don’t think it’s off by much - those figures look roughly correct. Drop in the ocean.

Also the entire problem is that he started a war with Iran over bullshit situations he created.

We were already not importing Russian oil, to support our global interests.

Now. Losing a war with a country who didn’t invade us AND helping another country Invade their neighbor.

10/10 dumbassery

American level intelligence is actually far below that. And it is steadily dropping year by year. Change my mind

back-of-the-napkin math and a couple quick ddg, says half a day's consumption. 2m barrels vs ~ 4m daily consumption (from statista; 3.83m bbl daily ave first week oct 2025).

Foreign Policy geniuses

In the USA? Who's that?

The USA has no allies. Non. Zero. Even Israel and Russia are not their allies, they just are taking advantage of them.

It's less diesel than the US uses in a day.

Iran

Will a lot of idiots THINK gas is cheaper, and vote Republican? Also yes.

And even worse, the propaganda gets inserted into spaces where it shouldn’t be under the guise of “hurr durr look how outrageous this is?!”

Don’t repost propaganda. It’s propaganda because it is insidious, it works, and people think they are above it.

Trump won't repay favours, so that particular aspect isn't much of an issue.

Birds of a feather….

Sure. He said he magically got something hugely valuable with no cost, and no one else has publicly confirmed that's true. So the entire deal is actually public: it's a bunch of made up BS that no one will corroborate as real. It's that imaginary wall Mexico was paying for all over again.

Hey, look at me. I'm publicly stating that the nation of Italy has agreed to sell me the heel of the boot. The whole place, we're gong's slice it right of, and float it to Texas and open a vineyard there. And maybe a monster truck theme park.

Don't make any of that true just because someone said it.

Asking the real questions here. I am curious as well.

Why does no one ever ask Putin to de-escalate?

There's a typo in your username, ThatGuyNamedIvan.

No it doesn't, we've had sanctions on them for quite awhile now and there was no Armageddon. I think you're russian, tbh.

Lmao what even is this argument? We should let Russia invade other countries, abduct children, murder and rape the people and commit genocide, because they have nukes? We don't care about what happens to the people in Ukraine, as long as we are cozy and safe far away from the front lines? And what if we'd let Putin steamroll Ukraine, where does it end? When he takes the Balkans? When he takes Poland?

Specifically to prevent an all out war all the countries have gone out of their way to prevent open warfare. We provide money, weapons, food and other aid to Ukraine. We provide specialists to assist them with management and infrastructure. But we don't send in our troop, we don't attack Russia or even help fight in Ukraine. Economic sanctions are applied and yes these sanctions hurt everyone, it's a big pain in the ass. The idea is to provide a way of applying pressure without resorting to war. As long as they hurt Russia, it's worth it.

Saying stuff like the sanctions are making Russia stronger is total nonsense, the sanctions are hurting them a lot. Russia was heavily reliant on selling their oil and gas, now that they can hardly do that anymore, their economy is in big trouble. And sure it strengthens the bond between Russia and China, but that's not the boon for Russia some people make it out to be. China knows Russia is hard stuck and has been milking them hard, buying oil at a very low price and selling stuff for higher prices. And China also wants to keep the rest of their trading partners happy, so there are limits to what they will do.

If we stand together we can contain the fighting in Ukraine, where Russia was the agressor and prevent escalation both in size and scale. I doubt very much Russia will resort to nukes, as that will unleash the rest of the world against them. We might all lose, but they will lose themselves and it's their choice to prevent that from happening. We will be able to beat back Russia and hopefully allow them to reform and come back into the fold.

Slava Ukraini!

So, just bend over cuz that's safer? Wtf are you saying?

There's a difference between deescalation and capitulation via self inflicted pain. Zelensky was not wrong to call this a weak decision.