Someone is asking for Putin to take off his gloves.

if I were him I would seriously consider taking out the Z boy

Ah, wisdom from a Ron Paul ANALyst. Right.

It will be if he keeps doubling down on Biden's failed strategy and pandering to Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence and other globalist/neocon/war pigs.

Ukraine is no worth paying a penny more at the gas pump.

Trump campaign against avoiding WW III and nuclear war and keeping us out of unnecessary wars, not continuing Biden's proxy war with Russia, one we're ultimately lose.

Ukraine is one of the few areas I am completely disappointed with Trump. Other than that, this presidency might turn out to be one of the best in U.S history.

Do your own computations of oil pipelined to China (don’t forget the contracted Urals flow of 200K bpd in the Kazakh pipeline, intermixed with Kazakh oil). And oil sent to small independent refiners (who are the majority of import buyers). The reduction in Chinese buy, assuming they do reduce, is pretty small potatos.

But the reality is they can’t reduce. There is nowhere else to get oil that do not already have customers defined.

This is all PR. It is imaginary pressure. It is going to fail. What will they try then, assuming the geography on the ground has not become compelling by then?

What would be the the most important item you would have him do differently?

The problem with this PR is the weaponization of global financial systems could accelerate a move away from the dollar.

Reserve currencies last roughly 100 years; the transition from the pound occurred between the wars, about 100 years ago.

This could spell disaster.

To hell with Russia AND Ukraine. They want to be children so let them continue to bleed our men

“What would be the the most important item you would have him do differently?”

Trump could have ended this war on Day 1, as was his stated desire, by ending all support for Ukraine.
Not our war (other than its origin), NO U.S. national security interest.

The latest sanctions do nothing to hurt Russia. On the contrary it caused the price of oil to rise which benefits Russia. Unfortunately it seems like the neocons in his administration are calling the shots on this.

Would you stop with the neo- con nonsense. Trump is a Jacksonian Nationalist. Neither a neo- cin , nor a Tucker type Isolationist. Jacksonianism always works.

Your assertion that this is “not our war” is arguably erroneous as both Obama and Biden policies/actions were resposible for it.

That being said, “not our war” is most definitely not synonomous with “not in our interest”. I would have to disagree that immediately pulling all US support from the Ukrainian war effort prior to any negotiation with Putin would have been the prudent move.

The latest sanctions do nothing to hurt Russia. On the contrary it caused the price of oil to rise which benefits Russia. No, some will stop buying Russian oil due to sanctions, and others will ask for larger discounts, reducing Kremlin profits.

China, India curb Russian oil purchases after Trump sanctions Rosneft, Lukoil

Reuters reported Thursday that Chinese state-run petroleum firms PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC and Zhenhua Oil had suspended purchases of seaborne Russian oil after the Treasury Department announced sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, citing Moscow’s “lack of serious commitment to a peace process to end the war in Ukraine.”

https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/world-news/china-india-curb-russian-oil-purchases-after-trump-sanctions-rosneft-lukoil/

US President Donald Trump has responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that new American sanctions will not harm Russia’s economy, saying he would “see how it all works out" over time.

“I am glad he feels that way. I’ll let you know about it in six months from now," Trump remarked, hinting at a wait-and-see approach to the sanctions’ long-term impact.

Well, that is true 900K is not much of a % of 6 or so million bpd.

But China only buys about 2.1 mbpd from Russia. Period. 900K bpd won’t be touched as just noted. Then further, the vast majority of the remainder is imported by small independent refiners.

So indeed 900K bpd is not a huge % of 6 million. Neither is 2.1 mbpd, or the 1.3 that is seaborne.

It’s a powerless sanction. There is no escaping the reality of scarcity. Russia pumps 10% of the world’s supply. Nowhere else to get that.

Putin tasks off his gloves? He has worn out every pair he has had and his hards are raw... Come on, everyone needs to stop this thing about Putin is going to really fight one day.
If he really had any power he would have stopped those attacks on all those 16 or so Oil Refineries in the last few months. All Putin can do now is bomb civilians.

Anyone who just wants to ignore the Russian-Ukraine war wants Russia to attack all of Europe and kill hundreds of million of innocent civilians.