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    trump says: “Let him go after targets but not diesel fuel, because he’s causing a shortage,”

    Also trump: Attacks Iran’s petroleum producing/delivering infrastructure and stirs a violent response closing the Straight of Hormuz … causing an even bigger shortage.

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    trump is pretty dumb, and also easy to manipulate. As long as someone says “yes” to trump, trump is happy. The follow-on action doesn’t even have to match.

    Were I Zelenskyy, I’d agree to stop attacking Russian refineries producing diesel as long as Ukraine gets some good concession from it, but specify that Ukraine will instead continue to attack any refinery producing kerosene or fuel oil. For those that aren’t familiar with crude oil refining, each product coming out of crude oil comes out at a different distillation temperature (boiling point). So its nearly impossible (or very very inefficient monetarily) to refine oil into diesel without also refining out the kerosene and fuel oil.

    Here’s a chart:

    Ukraine could continue attacking all Russian oil refineries rightly claiming Russia is violating its agreement and continues to refine kerosene and fuel oil, and that diesel is simply a collateral damage victim from Russian violations of the agreement.