Notices by Randahl Fink (randahl@mastodon.social)

Trump is begging Putin to agree to a peace deal, and now even promising to lift the sanctions on Russia.

The problem with that promise is, before the sanctions, the Russian oil exports to the US were just 4.2 percent of its total exports, while the Russian exports to Europe for instance were 56 percent — and Trump cannot lift the European sanctions.

Source: https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/RUS/Year/2021/TradeFlow/Export/Partner/by-region/Product/27-27_Fuels

Signal Gate continues:

In a second signal chat, US Secretary of Defence, Pete Hegseth, shared top secret war plans with his wife, his brother, and his lawyer.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/defense-chief-hegseth-shared-war-plans-second-signal-chat-nyt-reports-2025-04-20/

Putin has declared a unilateral Easter ceasefire in Ukraine until midnight Sunday night.

So… in less than 29 hours we will hear the Russian accusations that Ukraine has broken the ceasefire, giving Trump the excuse he needs to blame everything on Ukraine.

This is Putin's Easter ceasefire:

"Between 6:00 p.m. yesterday and midnight today, there were 387 instances of shelling and 19 assaults by Russian forces. Drones were used by Russians 290 times."

— President Zelenskyy.

New lawsuit from Tesla owners who are seeing their odometers (🇪🇺 kilometer counters) falsely counting more distance driven to make warranties expire faster and save Elon Musk money.

And they wonder why we choose German cars over American…

https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/tesla-accused-of-messing-with-odometers-to-get-out-of-repair-bills-165625372.html

Ukraine bombs the Russian military.

Russia bombs Ukrainian civilians.

Ukraine bombs the Russian military.

Russia bombs more Ukrainian civilians.

When Ukraine wins this war, the Russians will realize, you cannot defeat an enemy army by targeting civilians.

Did not work in world War 2.
Does not work now.

The EU has just released a list of their counter-tariffs on the US. If they go into effect, the EU will put tariffs on for example US soy beans, which China has already added a 84 percent tariff on.

If US farmers cannot sell to China and the EU anymore, that is more than half of US soy bean exports gone because of Trump.

I wonder if these US farmers will vote Trump ever again.

Trump threatening to “walk away” from the Ukraine peace deal, is like a stalker threatening to “end the relationship”.

A reporter asks Trump about Presidents Zelenskyys offer to buy Patriot missiles from the US.

Trump responds he cannot have any, because he started the war.

This man is a mythomaniac. He no longer lies because it benefits him. He lies, because lying itself is his favorite pastime.

Whistleblower reveals evidence on how Elon Musk's DOGE team extracted 10 GB of sensitive data about American citizens from a government agency, and then deleted accounts and logs to cover their tracks.

Then, when the whistleblower tried to report the data beach, he received a threatening letter containing pictures taken from a drone watching him walking his dog.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

The child had smeared feces all over the walls and proudly saw, he could now have the livingroom entirely to himself.

While President Zelenskyy was in Kryvyi Rih mourning 9 children killed on their playground by a Russian missile, Trump's special envoy Steven Witkoff hung out with Putin who fired the missile.

Citizens of the US, you deserve better leaders.

I think California and Canada should make a new country of 80 million people called Canafornia, which had a booming film industry, free healthcare, no trade wars, and a sane president.

All in favor say aye.

The best description of Trump's leadership yet:

"Trump reacts to news, the way a Roomba reacts to walls."

— American comedian Seth Meyers

🎯

The downside to electing a dumb leaders is, other nations are led by intelligent people with experience — this is how Canada just beat Trump into submission:

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet

Either the Hungarian people gets rid of Orbán, or the EU gets rid of Hungary.

This cannot go on.

Having burned down the house, the boy was very pleased to now have the undivided attention of his entire family.

Oil prices are dropping rapidly.

How ironic, that Trump’s moronic tariffs may end up crashing the Russian economy and thereby ending the Ukraine war by accident.

Picture 1: While Trump is fantasizing that he will be making a peace deal with Putin, the US ambassador to Ukraine mourns the deaths from Putin bombing yet another playground to kill as many Ukrainian children as possible.

Picture 2: Three year old Timofy was one of the 9 children killed.

Trump has not even reacted to this attack, because this is how a weak leader responds — by hiding from the facts.

There is as much peace in a Trump peace deal, as there are presidents in “President Trump”.

People sometimes question if Russia is really losing 1500 soldiers every day. Here is a good example from Prokrovsk of why this keeps happening:

Picture 1-2: 12 Russians attack using 1 crowded vehicle in an open field.

Picture 3: Their vehicle is hit by a drone, and the Russians disembark to continue on foot.

Picture 4: All 12 are completely exposed hundreds of meters from cover, and one by one they are killed by Ukrainian FPV drones.

(Deliberately not sharing the violent video)