r/worldnews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 21h ago

Russia/Ukraine ‘We Were Mistaken’: Putin Admits Russia Was Unprepared for Ukrainian Strikes on Oil Refineries

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83674
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u/we_cant_stop_here 18h ago

Meanwhile Bessent is now blaming Ukraine for high oil prices. Looks like a coordinated push to stop Ukraine from doing one of the few things that really hurts Russia.

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u/sxyaustincpl 18h ago

It's a pretty weak argument, trying to blame Ukraine, when international sanctions limit who Russia can even sell oil to so much it's basically only Turkey and China.

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u/we_cant_stop_here 18h ago

Argument strength seldom matters these days unfortunately. It's all about pushing a narrative and repeating it as much as possible unchallenged. Easy to do with state controlled media in Russia and nearly the same thing now happening in USA.

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u/sxyaustincpl 18h ago

The low intelligence, uninformed voters who gobble this garbage down like Pac-Man eating dots doesn't help either.

There's no critical thinking skills at all, it's pretty easy for anyone with an iota of intelligence and education to see how Republicans use dumbed-down propaganda that appeals to the lowest common denominator, but yet they just accept it as fact and head to the polls like sheep.

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u/MintyFresh771 17h ago

Bessent looks like he has a knock-out button of a no-chin that desperately needs to be pressed. Every time he opens his smug mumbling stuttering shit hole it’s just lies.

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u/Ok_Estate394 8h ago

Well just like everyone else in this horrid administration who thinks Russia is a shining example of Christian white nationalism, Bessent is probably bought out by them.. couldn’t be that the Strait of Hormuz being closed for months is causing high oil prices. Never!

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u/we_cant_stop_here 7h ago

They also think this (or claim) despite russia being something like upwards of 20% Muslim, far more than any Western nation. With putin's right hand being a literal islamist warlord (kadyrov). The whole of MAGA is just malignant hypocrisy with just a fingernail scratch of the surface, no need to even dig deep.