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submitted 2 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Donald Trump on Sunday called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian diesel, saying the attacks are causing a fuel shortage.

Ukraine’s long-range strikes have been targeting Russia’s oil and gas industry for months, which Kyiv says both funds and directly fuels Moscow’s more than four-year-old invasion of its neighbor.

The Ukrainian drone campaign has caused fuel rationing across Russia, despite the country being a key oil and gas exporter. Other Ukrainian strikes targeted major Russian online retailers, bringing the war ever closer to the public.

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[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] YeahToast@aussie.zone 10 points 1 day ago

To be fair, this graph doesn't really counter the above comment.. you'd need a graph from ~2020 (or before) to disprove their comment around prices rising 3 years ago.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago

Of course it doesn't, because they're being disengenuous; retail diesel was under $2 in 2021.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

2021 was also just pulling out of the pandemic that sent oil prices negative for a while because demand destruction was so radical. I don't think that's a fair comparison.

Better look is here for complete data back to 1990... Diesel was pretty stable mostly through 2012 to 2020 at around $3/USD. It dropped during the pandemic, then spiked again after Russia's invasion. It was slowly returning to an average baseline before Trump stuck his dick in it though.

[-] YeahToast@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

So it looks stable until all of the US wars in the middle east around 2000s

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

Crazy how that works! It's Republicans all the way down.

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