Oleshky and Refineries

As of yesterday, Ukraine resumed attacks on oil infrastructure in the Russian Federation. This matters because the Trump administration pressured them to stop two weeks ago. I guess Donald Trump is doing his best to save his buddy from what is coming: an economic collapse.

So yesterday Ukraine hit the Novokuybyshevsk Refinery in the Samara region, and some of it was the ability to refine diesel. So there is some irony here:

Defense Forces used FP-1 drones to strike the Novokuybyshevsk Refinery in the Samara region, — Fire Point

🛢The enterprise has a design processing capacity of about 8.8 million tons of oil per year.

Numerous hits were recorded on the territory of the plant. In particular, one of the affected units is a diesel fuel hydrotreating.

https://t.me/MAKS23_NAFO/128322

Mind you, the diesel coming to the United States isn’t finding any buyers. And Democrats are threatening hearings once they take over. Plus, it is against US law to import this diesel, not that this ever stopped Trump.

This brings me to this comment from Kaja Kallas, Vice President of the European Commission, which I will add; I heard it in college a while ago. As in many decades ago. But think of this in the context of what Trump is doing, because this is textbook, and he is…