President Trump is out of his depth, and very unpredictable in which of the two nations he supports.
{As an aside, as I typed that, I learnt he is now using his "Truth Social" to mock the death of the man who climbed for unknown reasons into a tiger enclosure in an English wildlife park. It's already been reported the bereaved family are pleading for people not to propagate videos of the real tragedy on-line; but now the leader of a major nation is using his own site to sink to that depth of cowardly inhumanity.}
@Northwest With russia, everything is 'theoretical' or 'dependant' or, like trump's claims, 'just about to happen' very soon and within two weeks or maybe more we'll have to wait and see.
The russians know that even if they could restart the refinery the Ukrainians would simply take it down again.
The russians know that even if they could restart the refinery the Ukrainians would simply take it down again.
Which is why this is dependent on Trump's ability to "force" Ukraine into the energy ceasefire that he came up with, even shocking Witkoff and Kushner, who were in their golf clubs. Even if it's all perfect, this will not reach the US market in time to lower prices before the the first Tuesday of November, but he can do what he does best, lie.