A non-sociopath would never push that button, so we have a sociopath in the oval office to push it for us.
I think you got the process backwards, Trump doesn’t care about the diesel price. Trump started out wanting to help Russia. The whole diesel thing is just an invented setup, to give Trump a propaganda reason to bash Ukraine.
To see this realize that 1) Trump has always been openly pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine 2) the diesel price effect this will have is tiny 3) the political cost to Trump is completely disproportional to diesel price relief.
I think you got the process backwards, Trump doesn’t care about the diesel price. Trump started out wanting to help Russia. The whole diesel thing is just an invented setup, to give Trump a propaganda reason to bash Ukraine.
To see this realize that 1) Trump has always been openly pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine 2) the diesel price effect this will have is tiny 3) the political cost to Trump is completely disproportional to diesel price relief.