Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Extortion!

Monday, October 12, 2026

Extortion!

The man who calls himself... “The Dealmaker” has just bombed out royally! And now he’s resorting to extortion to get his way!

US threatens to suspend intel sharing, weapons purchases if Ukraine continues Russia energy strikes, sources say
Jim Sciutto, CNN
Sun, October 11, 2026

The Trump administration has warned Ukraine and allies in Europe that the US could suspend intelligence sharing and European purchases of US weapons for Ukraine if Kyiv does not halt its deep strikes on Russian energy facilities, two European officials told CNN.

The warnings from the State Department and the Pentagon were sent over the weekend to officials in Ukraine and Europe, including communications from the US military directly to Ukrainian commanders.

Another source familiar with the matter said the US threatened to cut intelligence sharing.

This has Republicans in Congress hopping mad!

Trump has long blamed the rise in global diesel prices on the Ukraine-Russia war and demanded that both sides halt attacks on energy facilities. Those high prices have also been exacerbated by the US' war with Iran.

Yep, blame everyone else for his ineptitude! And he’s really, really pissed off the Republicans because they just passed a law that made the trade illegal! And Trump even signed it into law! The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, signed by Trump on September 18, 2026. And now he does this!

Putin says Russia won't supply diesel to global markets until sanctions are lifted
By Reuters
October 1, 2026

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia will not supply its diesel to global energy markets ‌until sanctions against Moscow are lifted.

Speaking at the Valdai Forum of international Russia experts in Moscow, Putin said that Ukraine had "partially achieved its objectives" with strikes on Russian oil refineries that he said had ⁠cost Russia 1% of its gross domestic product.

Meanwhile, across the pond, Trump is quaking in his boots over the price of diesel and blaming everyone but himself! We know what's driving prices higher: Trump made a disastrous decision and invaded Iran! So much for “The Dealmaker”! He created the mess and now wants everyone else to clean it up!

Why did we go to war with Iran? Trump needed a diversion. Hegseth wanted to bring about the “End Times,” and Israel wanted a sucker to do its dirty work for it.

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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."
– Edward R. Murrow

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Monday, October 12, 2026

Extortion!

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