How will Ukraine respond to the growing pressure from Washington? | Inside Story

Ukraine is arguably among the most unjust of tragedies, considering how many useless and spiteful countries who even sometimes cheered Kremlin villiany, opened the eyes of many to the rot & double standards, which didn't help the Gaza cause. Most weak & ridiculed societies have earned that reputation and disgust over decades, Ukraine was a final highlight. Trump will face his own reckoning.

Sanctions no Sanctions Ukraine is loosing all, men, territories, infrastructures and now a landlocked country, it's high time this heartless warmongers realise that Ukraine is collapsing, there is no amount of gifts or money can replace that period.the only solution to this tragedy is Ukraine to cede the remaining Donbas, in the end Russia will always remain the winner, so why not now rather than later to save life's ,all this so called Ukrainian backers will never go to the front and die for Ukrainians, they will only do the media propaganda to prop zelensky at the detriment of Ukrainians.bad deal is better than total defeat.

ED THE SOCK COMMENTS
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<br>Alright, I watched the whole thing. Here&#39;s my take.
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<br>Now, you might think a trade deal is a trade deal. Diesel&#39;s diesel. The truck doesn&#39;t care where it came from. It&#39;s the most natural assumption in the world. And it&#39;s a load of horseshit.
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<br>Here&#39;s the sequence, and it&#39;s the whole thing. Last month, Trump signs a sweeping sanctions law aimed at Russia&#39;s energy revenue. This month, after a phone call with Putin, he thanks Putin on social media and announces the United States is buying Russian diesel. The Treasury issues a general licence authorising the imports until April 7. Ukraine is not in the room for the call. Ukraine finds out from the announcement. The Ukrainian delegation in Miami cuts its trip short the next day. And then Trump, asked about it, says Ukraine should get a new leader.
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<br>Buddy. That&#39;s not a deal. That&#39;s a message. And the message is: the guy who&#39;s been saying the right things for four years is now the obstacle.
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<br>Now, here&#39;s the part the analysts are saying quietly, and the transcript lets it slip. The volume is nothing. Three hundred thousand tonnes sounds big until you run the maths — that&#39;s about 2.25 million barrels. The US exports roughly 1.5 million barrels of diesel a day. So the &quot;immediate&quot; shipment is about a day and a half of supply. One analyst called it &quot;a nothing burger.&quot; Andre Kortunov, in the Moscow seat, said the same thing from the other end: about half a day&#39;s consumption, mostly psychological, no real economic impact. The diesel futures dropped five per cent on the news. That&#39;s the whole point. The trade isn&#39;t the trade. The signal is the trade.
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<br>And the signal is this: the sanctions regime is now negotiable by phone call. Not by Congress, not by the EU, not by the G7. By one man, with one call, thanking the other man on Truth Social. Kaja Kallas says it&#39;s not the time to ease pressure and Europe won&#39;t. Germany says it&#39;s keeping its sanctions. The UK says the same. So you&#39;ve got the United States on one side, and every one of its allies on the other, and the only thing that changed is a phone call.
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<br>And the owners don&#39;t care about any of it. The diesel traders will make their money on the five per cent drop and the five per cent bounce. The refiners will sell whatever they can get out of the damaged plants. The midterms are three weeks away and the price at the pump is the only number that matters, so the deal is aimed at the pump and not at the war. Everybody in that conversation knows it. Lisa Yasko, in the Kyiv seat, is sitting in a city with explosions going off and half of it without power, and she said it plainly: you can&#39;t trade with the devil.
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<br>So the bottom line. This isn&#39;t a sanctions story. It&#39;s a signal story. One country told the world, on a Friday, that its commitments are renegotiable by whoever gets the president on the phone. That&#39;s not a deal. That&#39;s a precedent. And precedents don&#39;t stay in one country. Ask anybody who&#39;s ever relied on a promise from a guy who just broke one.
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<br>Check the stove. Keep the loop open. And the next time somebody tells you this deal is about the price of diesel, ask them why it happened on a Friday, after a phone call, three weeks before an election.
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<br>Ed&#39;s out. 🌹