India, Oct. 12 -- Ahead of the mid-term polls in the US, President Donald Trump has inked a deal with Russia wherein the latter will immediately supply 300,000 tonnes of diesel to the "American and global marketplace", with 500,000 tonnes in November, followed by a million after that. Trump has also stated that the delivery is dependent on the functioning of Russian refineries currently under attack by Ukraine. It would all appear ordinary if Trump hadn't legislated sanctions against countries for doing exactly that: buying oil from Russia and Iran. Trump has been equivocating on the US-Ukraine situation throughout his second term; he publicly chastised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Oval Office in February 2025 for not bei...