Trump lifts sanctions on Russian diesel(www.politico.com)

9 pointsby ceejayozan hour ago3 comments

m348e912an hour ago
He is also allowing the wide spread use of red-dye diesel, which is tax free and typically restricted to non-road use vehicles and machinery.
- legitsteran hour ago
  So dumb. The red dye is added by law to catch people from using it without paying taxes. They could just... cut the tax on diesel?
  The reality is it's bad idea that is going to put you into trouble if you tried it in most states as it's not like the federal government can cancel out the state's taxes and enforcement through executive order.
  As Trump said at his rally, he didn't actually know what red dye diesel is anyway.
java-manan hour ago
He is clearly a russian agent. Siding with the aggressor country.
- m348e912an hour ago
  Is that your take? What about desperation to lower domestic diesel prices in order to salvage the midterms?
  - alphawhiskyan hour ago
    Why not both?
  - bigyabaian hour ago
    Sanctions relief apropos of nothing goes beyond desperation, if these were Iranian sanctions then it would be decried as treason.
    ceejayoz22 minutes ago
    Already did it, a few months back.
    https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026/06/treasury-...
  - ksudban hour ago
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bediger400021 minutes ago
What's the point of this? If Trump wanted to keep gas and diesel prices down, he should have done this months ago. It's not going to have any effect on prices or attitudes by November 3. This isn't going to have an effect on midterms as an upside.
It does make Trump look weak, doing something, anything, to keep Republican Majority in Congress, and having no foreign policy principles. It also confirms something we've known since Trump's first impeachment, that he runs foreign policy for his own benefit/enrichment.
I don't see how this can be defended.