Politics
US Presses Ukraine on Refinery Strikes as Trump Calls for a New President
Washington reportedly warned Ukraine it would cut intelligence-sharing unless it stopped striking Russian refineries, and Trump publicly called for Ukraine to get a new president, blaming the strikes for higher fuel prices. Ukraine's stance was conditional on Russia halting attacks on Ukrainian energy sites. On Japanese forums the dominant read was that Washington was protecting its own oil prices and midterm politics by restraining the side under invasion. Others shrugged that resources and nuclear weapons are what make a country strong, and many turned the story back onto Japan's own dependence on the US.
