No. of Recommendations: 3
diesel volumes, if they ever change hands, are meaningless, and possible over-reach in authority.
i would be more confident if the trump family benefits directly, but the beauty of corruption is that follow-through is not guaranteed after payment.
ukraine has already destroyed 1 or more 'regular' darkfleet carriers. it is irrelevant to ukraine whether the 3rd-party carrier is sending cargo to china or india.
zeihan guesses ukraine is communicating\corresponding\verifying legitimate ships. then filtering out candidates with transponders OFF.
(possibly using palantir or some homegrown equivalent to reach confidence level)