The Shadow Tankers Sneaking Russian Oil Past Western Sanctions | WSJ
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- A shadow fleet of oil tankers is forging ever-closer ties between Russia and Gulf states like the UAE and Saudi Arabia. These tankers emerged in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine, allowing Moscow to skirt the West imposing a price cap on its oil. So why have more shadow tankers moved towards these Gulf nations?
WSJ explains how oil-rich nations in the Middle East facilitate Russia’s oil trade amid Western efforts to curb the Kremlin’s energy revenues.
Chapters:
0:00 Gulf states and Russian oil
0:43 Shadow fleet, explained
2:03 Oil sales
3:24 New energy trade center
4:38 What’s next for the Middle East?
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UK uses a "refinery loophole" where fuel made from Russian oil refined in countries like lndia is legally imported, more than half billion dollars worth
Yep, refined oil is considered to come from the country it's refined in. 🇦🇺 have bought thousands of tonnes of it. 🤬
Nothing wrong with it. These sanctions will cripple world economy. They were not well thought out. We need free trade not sanctions!
They make their sanctions, and they make their loopholes to their sanctions. The funny geopolitical games these western countries play.
Investigative journalists in Croatia have now been warning for years that Croatian port Ploce is also importing Russian oil, transporting it to town Brod in Croatia and then to Brod in Bosnia, where crude oil is refined, and as such "laundered" back to Croatia/EU as "Bosnian" oil and therefore a clean product. It would be nice if a western media outlet would look into this and do a proper story.
The world cannot survive without Russian oil. The volume is too much. Plus look into what the US is doing in Guyana and the sea surrounding Venezuela.
Pretty sure they know already India openly sells refined Russian oil to EU . They don't care bcz if u actually fully removed Russian out of equation prices of Oil will shot up and Saudi will make sure to squeeze every penny . Lastly don't forget most nation literally cannot afford that prices without collapsing. Remember when gas prices were high at start and most of EU citizens were complaining? Some EU nation tried to stop indian from getting Russian oil knowing very well average indian is 6 time poorer than western European. It would have literally ended poorer nations
Bro no one cares about 'Croatian Journalists' 😂
Oh no
I am pretty sure you have nothing to say in our Croatia.
And those who hate on Russia are regarded as the same as Hitler and his Nazis were.
So Europe kicks Russia out of the financial system in Geneva and then have a surprised pikachu face when they see Russia going to UAE for their financial system and thus shifting the centre of gravity from Europe? These are 4 Asian countries trading amongst themselves in Asian currencies, what's your problem with that? Buy oil from America then, simple.
UAE buy cheap from Russia and then sell its to Europe. UAE money baby
@@chaos5104 UAE is smart
The middleman cuts out the profit for Russia. Not all that bad.
CNBC
'World is grateful': India keeps oil prices cheaper by buying from Russia, Indian oil minister says
1 week ago
Le Monde
India is acting as a hub for Russian oil
May 6, 2023 - Its orders increased 22-fold in 2022, according to Moscow, and a study by energy analytics firm Vortexa says that in March, it imported 1.64 ...
Euractiv› news
Germany snapping up Indian fuels made of Russian oil
Sep 12, 2023 - The 12-fold jump comes after India became a leading buyer of Russian crude in the wake of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
bbc › news ›
India's Russia oil imports jumped tenfold in 2022, bank says
May 10, 2023 - India's imports of Russian oil rose tenfold last year, according to Indian state-controlled lender Bank of Baroda
@@waeljallad671 Reportedly, Russia isn't all that happy with the glut of rupees. It doesn't know what to do with them, because unlike China, India doesn't have much to export to Russia. Russia could dump them, but India wouldn't appreciate the sudden drop in the rupee's exchange rate.
We Germans still buy Russian gas. But not via a cheap pipeline. We now buy it in India, where the Russian gas is liquefied and then transported to us by ship - at ten times the price in terms of money and environmental impact.
It's all a joke.
Sanctions are non existent now for india.
My dad is a captain for oil tankers. They do anything from mid sea transfers to blending at terminals.
Meanwhile we indians are paying top dollar to govt favored Ambani owned companies for petro products.
I call BS, since the market price is currently only about 2.5 times that prior to the invasion, despite having to pay for liquefaction and re-gasification. So stop buying natural gas, and complete your de-industrialization, as desired by Morgenthau. I think it is rich that with all the chaos that Germany has caused in the 20th and 21st century you are whining. Should never have allowed re-unification.
You have a source for this?
@@thocws hyperlink doesn’t work, but just Google „öl aus indien nach deutschland“ and you find lots of German media articles right away. For translating you can use the browser function if needed.
@@thocws no, doesn’t work. Google „Tagesschau Deutschland importiert russisches Öl über Indien“ and you find plenty of German media articles. You can use browser translation if needed.
EU is fully aware of this practice, they just turn blind eye because they needed the oil.
Well, they found a way to get Russian oil while Russia has to heavily lower it's price
@@AZ-mv4cdisnt the shadow fleet made to bypass the oil cap?
@@WowSirSmallFan ad it's said in the video, the oil is heavily subsidied so the UAE even boughts it
@@AZ-mv4cd ehhhmmm, but Russian didn't low the price.
@@AZ-mv4cd This isn't the reason. It's because they just work together and reglate production/price. Per barrel Russia has somewhat same profit.
*India* 🇮🇳 : We do openly that many do secretly 😂
Eurasia sanctions yellen
CNBC
'World is grateful': India keeps oil prices cheaper by buying from Russia, Indian oil minister says
1 week ago
Le Monde
India is acting as a hub for Russian oil
May 6, 2023 - Its orders increased 22-fold in 2022, according to Moscow, and a study by energy analytics firm Vortexa says that in March, it imported 1.64 ...
Euractiv› news
Germany snapping up Indian fuels made of Russian oil
Sep 12, 2023 - The 12-fold jump comes after India became a leading buyer of Russian crude in the wake of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022
bbc › news ›
India's Russia oil imports jumped tenfold in 2022, bank says
May 10, 2023 - India's imports of Russian oil rose tenfold last year, according to Indian state-controlled lender Bank of Baroda
Based af
Based india
Obvious
Don't say that CIA spied on every american ally like Germany .That is based too .
What do you expect? The world is tired of America playing judge, jury, and henchman on other countries.
What do you expect the world is tired of Russia playing judge, jury and henchman on other countries.
Keep in mind also, UAE also are now members of the BRICS group😂
Have any of you watched Tucker Carlson's recent interview with Putin? It's intriguing how media narratives can be manipulated.
Indeed, the distortion of truth by the mainstream media is concerning; it's challenging to discern fact from fiction
The halting of gas flow into Europe has undoubtedly impacted living costs significantly.
Agreed, the economic repercussions are palpable, particularly for ordinary citizens
Shifting gears to Fin stability, have you all heard about Monica Mary Strigle?
Yes, I've heard she's been instrumental in elevating people's lifestyles by adeptly managing their portfolios.
"The dog barks but the caravan moves on." - Vladimir Putin
Dog = The West
Caravan = The World 🌍.
So what? They can sell and ship oil to whomever they want. That's not for anyone else to decide.
It’s mostly because the US would like to monopolise global trade at all costs. It’s why the CIA blew up Nordstream, it devastated germanys economy but it forced Germany to become reliant on the US. The US doesn’t “help” it’s allies out of good will, everyone has unethical goals.
"sneaking past"
what? despite what many americans like to think the US does not own india or china. you do not get to tell others who they can trade with.
thank god the price cap miserably failed as it always would.
i noticed the paternalistic accusative tone throughout this video. like the UAE is somehow obligated to align itself entirely with american/israeli geopolitical interests and it's "naughty" for not doing so
Very well written. 💯
60 bucks a barrel. They never wanted this to end. It’s way to profitable.
Seems like everyone is winning except the EU... 😐
Is Ukraine winning? Are Russian political prisoners winning?
How much money does Russia need to waste financing these operations. Insurance along costs a fortune.
@@erikthomsen4768well, it seems only USA is winning.
We are fine. There is no blood in our hands unlike India, arabs and China
@@Max_Jacoby Ukraine also wants Russia weakened for reasons you can properly imagine.
Nato: You can't sell to us anymore
Russia: ok we'll sell it to them
Nato: You weren't supposed to do that.
"Sneaking"? How sneaking; they're disregarding. The Outlaw Ocean.
They may think so, but if they have no safe ports to export from then this short lived phenomina will go away. Ukrainian drones are picking them off 1 by 1. As for diesel, it's almost planting season, and most military equipment uses diesel. Putler on a short leash here.
Meaningless. Wer showed there are no safe targets. Everything can be hit. Any ship, any object, noone is safe. Ukraine is able to to hit some objects because of careful picking. Otherwise there will be simple and devastating answers. Like when Zelenky visits some place close to fornt, suddenly the artillery get quite and he's not in danger of it. This is such exchange.
This will stay like that.
Ukraine doesn't get losing fleet experience just cuase it already lost it. Ship moving in/out Ukranian ports do so within Russian decision as we see it. Soon Ukranie food industry won't exist anyway.
😂😂😂 oh I see you coping hard
@abdirahmanahmadalifarah926 Another lor pretender; are you fighting orcs too?
@jhorvath700 U mean the one in congress like Johnson and Marjorie Triator Green. Yup.
Hopefully the shadow fleet keeps growing . Western monopoly of shipping needs to be gotten rid of
Ships by country:
1. Greece
2. Japan
3. China
4. Singapore
...western monopoly indeed.
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@@IAlwaysWantedToTryThat I think he meant the insurance companies 😅
It’s seems the people in this chat are so full of themselves. What did u think Russia was gonna do sit back and take it. You all are fools
Why use the term 'shadow'? A prejudicial term in my opinion.
This isnt illegal
They are failed to Blame India
Now they are Target becomes middle East 😂
I am an ex oil tanker mariner doing God-knows-how-many ship-to-ship cargo transfer operations and trust me, the US did this kind of shady operation way more than the Russian. How do you think your country get the oil from? Texas? puh...leeeease...
As a mariner you would know the quality of Oil thats coming from here and from Texas. Its a nightmare to run Purifiers with Fuel from texas.
@@forkrust9296 First, Texas oil sucks, but that's not my point anyway. Second, this was a reply to the "shadow fleet". The US did and still do this on a MASSIVE scale, I can safely presume that this was the backbone of their economy. But then, when Russia did the same, well we all know what happened. I guess Uncle Fentanyl doesn't like any competition.
Для русских очевидно, что США заинтересованы в уничтожении экономмки европы, за все врем войны Украины и России были в выигрыше только США, даже крупнейшие автомобильные концерны уходят из Европы.
На мой взгляд, Европейцам нужно пересмотреть, кто хочет использовать европу, а кто хочет взаимовыгодных отношений
This is the direct result of half through sanctions by US and EU, the best part is that many American and European companies are still active in Russia as well.
Which companies in the US?
McDonald is a "supplier" to Russian new company. Everything on their menu is a Mc.
Just change the label.
@@Ben942K Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and his team at Yale publish that data, you will be amazed at the number of American and European companies that are active in Russia.
@@Ben942Kmany!!
Sort of like our liberal/democrat governors and government officials here in USA, lockdowns and sanctions for thee, and not me.
Price cap ? Eu is not producing any oil and can they cap the price? How dumb
No, but they can say that they don't want to buy oil from here or there for more than a specific price - that's what the price cap is.
So not really dumb, its just the free market.
@@madsthodsen5620 they can say they don’t buying but who is selling? If you say I will pay $1 per gallon only, who is selling 🤓
@madsthodsen5620, a price cap and a market price are two different things.
Norway is producing oil.
@@albertkowalski5629They cannot compensate for the large volume of russian oil
These UN "sanctions" against Russia remind me of US airport (TSA) security measures. It's there to make you feel like we (US/UN) are doing something for safety and security while still allowing for many laws and rules to be broken...
Rules to be broken? Like invading another country, kidnapping children, bombing hospitals and schools, destroying electrical grids among thousands of other war crimes? Oh boo hoo Russia can’t sell its gas at full price, America evil!
How is the TSA anything like sanctions on Russia?
@@Djamonjaboth are hollow and not really that effective
@@memeboi6017 Metal detectors, X-Ray machines and ID checks are a little more effective than sanctions on Russia
They are not UN sanctons, they are US/UK/EU sanctions.
India has been clever so far to profit from Ukraine war and able stay under the radar…. EU and US are benefiting from this as well….they outsourced their energy demands to India
India is doing what's best for its people. the US and EU only care about themselves
Yes it’s called being neutral…
Russia is too big to be ignored
...or to be defeated
One of the many reasons to ditch fossil fuels!
Lol
And use what, batteries? With cobalt mine with slaves?
You first, ditch everything which is coming from them and then use smoke signals to invite us in your cave to highlight the benefits of your decision.
Or nuclear energy for a change?@@MeowMochi3
@@Dave05J so no more planes/ helicopters??
Nice!
What’s the price at which they are buying it?
01:20 "(...) that he says (...)".
Likewise I hope wsj can report more on us military illegally staying inside of Syria territory and stealing oil..
Thank you for this comment. FACTS!
Sanctions don't work if only 10% of the world is sanctioning. Common sense
this people literally work for the government smh.
instead of reporting both side of the aisle and pushing for peaceful resolution, they are doing CIA stuff lol
Take your meds.
Don't think "shadow", think "diversified logistic solutions"
Be positive and proactive! ))
$60 a barrel. When Canada does that for $56 a barrel they act as if Canada is selling unprofitable oil.
Russia has the right to sell it's oil and conduct trade with other countries. Western sanctions are not UN sanctions they are not international law.
If I refuse to buy from your store that's not a law, that's choice.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Except the US punishes other people who would like to shop there by not letting them shop any where else. That isn't choice it's called extortion.
@@ChucksSEADnDEADthe us goes to great extent to maintain a monopoly. Meaning that if they impose sanctions, they want the whole world to follow it by will or ill.
Surprisingly despite imposing sanctions, it doesn't deter them from buying nuclear fuel from Russia. So from US perspective, sanctions are for thee, not for me.
I dont get whats the problem ? I though those cantions ans price cap were working.
Russian energy exports are at an all time low since 2022 but they will obviously try to evade constantly, reporters like NYT just call out the problems.
the emirates know exactly what they really doing, they’re exporters doing imports. They’re doing it safe in the knowledge that Western countries don’t want to have the diplomatic fall out
they are not sneaking when america is shadowing them
Literally did this since 2014, did they shadowed us . Nyet
Yeah, the sanction is a huge joke.
Every country is looking for cheaper oil, and most of them don't care if it come from Russia if it meant cheaper.
Sure the U.S and EU can say they don't want Russian oil, but many Companies in those countries still import Russian oil using a third Country/Company to "laundered" The oil and change the letter of Origin.
Nations cannot apply their laws extraterritorially and at the same time respect sovereignty.
Guess again
Tell that to the USA not India.
Yuri Orlov end movie quote inserted
All nations benefits
Well except for Russia 😅
People keep forgetting that Russia is not fully sanctioned. Smh.
It's not our business to get involved in other people business
Still meant Russia is selling at a discount
We still get cheaper oil
The shadow tanker nations get a piece of the pie too
Win win for everyone
Well except for Russia 😅
Shadow tankers are playing a dangerous game 🌍
😂😂😂for what
Lol
I'm wondering why only this guy wondered what an oil tanker was doing docked up near St. Petersburg loading oil destined for the Dutch Shell oil refinery in Holland when the UKRs drone attacked the place..
Black gold.
Hopefully we will see the discounts at our pumps. oil is money and if you think US company's won't take the advantage of more profit you would be making a mistake.
I learned English whole of my life and your English is better than me 😂
If Russian oil is taken out of market is America & Europe willing to pay 120$ per barrel?
Is your citizens ready to pay 1.5 times the present fuel rates?
Move on WSJ
the goal isnt to take Russian oil out of the market, the goal is to decrease the money they make from the oil. Which has succeeded
@@ebbeb9827 decrease by what? a decrease by 0.0001% is still a decrease but did it do anything?
@@ebbeb9827You have failed to achieve the two objectives you just mentioned,if not Russia will stop what they are doing.So far Russia is just getting a hiccup from western sanctions lol
@@ebbeb9827 It has done more damage to the EU's economy than it ever has to Russia. It's insane how people are still willing to defend these useless sanctions
I wonder if the NSA tracks all ships in the ocean with ai satellite imagery.
They track just about everything in the ocean with satellites, it's hard to hide stuff from space.
This C1 ship is owned by a proxy of the Union Minister of India known as PKJ. This minister belongs to the Indian state of Maharashtra. As far as I know more than 20 ships of his own are doing the same job.
PkJ ?
@@aljox5566 I cannot give the name of the minister in detail. If you know Indian politics you will find it easily.
I think it may be Piyush Goyal(Ministry of Commerce and Industry) because he is from state Maharashtra but i am not sure
What is your source? This is not true
Good for him, he is making a lot of money while doing good for his country by shipping Russian oil
"sneaking" lol not with this reporter reporting on it lol
in this case Oil now of Russia is control by UAE and SAUDI thru INDIA. RUSSIA can't sale thiier oil directly to the buyer. So UN now can control the flow of this oil. OIL for food only not for ARMS
Kind of makes us sick to hear this kind of stuff. Maybe since they’re so buddy buddy with Russia. It might be a good idea to stop selling them American aircraft, munitions, etc.
Delusion is by far more dangerous than propaganda it seems.
if someone attacked a tanker, they wouldn't really be attacking Russia, because they aren't owned by Russia
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Kpler acquired the two leading ship tracking and maritime analytics providers MarineTraffic and FleetMon in 2023.
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This will/might get shut down before the next winter to back up and freeze Russian oil lines
DID I HEAR OIL?
You didn’t get orders for israel, Mr golem
More reason for Europe to leave fossil fuels behind and convert to renewables, nuclear and , for the time being, carbons from friendly, allied countries.
Я вас огорчу 😹. Это тоже будет из России 😹. В июле 2022 в России произошла по сути революция в сфере ядерной энергетики. В промышленное производство запустили реактор 4 поколения. Можно долго петь дифирамбы, но если коротко. Научились добывать энергию из урана 238, то есть то, что раньше было ядерными отходами. А вот на западе ядерные технологии во многом утрачены. Они могут поддерживать существующие АЭС, но уже даже с постройкой новых АЭС такого же типа есть проблемы.
ЗЫ. А зелёная энергетика - это апофеоз глупости. Продолжаю наблюдать как ветряки заправляют дизелем 😹
I wondered why the U.A.E. gave Putin a heros welcome. Now I understand. Opportunists.
BRICS 😬
Rather reasonable, not bent under mainstream shtflow.
I doubt that the sanctions will stay the same. Nor will the strategies of war. If the gulf states and India give Russia more ways to work around the sanctions and increased sanctions don't work, and Ukraine doesn't get weapons that directly combat Russia, than logically, Ukraine would switch to commerce attacks in the Black Sea. Both Russia and Ukraine have declare those merchant ships to be legitimate targets of war. As long as Ukraine was getting sufficient weapons, it made sense to keep this as more of a military conflict. But even then Russia tried to destroy Ukrainian grain export facilities. If EU and USA support isn't strong enough, the next cheap attack is on tankers passing from the Kerch Strait towards Turkey. Heck there might be a "Houthi" attack on the Suez Canal, leading to its shutdown.
Lol Ukraine is buying Russian goods
Did you know, that right at this moment there is a gas pipe through Ukrain that pumping gas to Europe and Ukrain is getting money for this gas transit from Russia
@@dr_UiD Yes, I'm aware of that strange situation. Ukraine is walking a tight rope with respect to gas transit to Europe. But if the weapons stop flowing, the natural gas might stop flowing too. Or the USA deep state might intervene, so that Ukraine doesn't get blamed for shutting down Turk Stream and South Stream. No one apparently holds Ukraine accountable for Nord Stream, even though that is the leading candidate for that attack.
Hey, I replied about an hour ago. Did you see that reply? I'm seeing your question in one comment stream. And in another, just seeing my response, but not your question! My guess is the TH-cam gremlins don't want us to clearly communicate.
If this is public knowledge why isn't the government acting?
Or is this just the usual two faced consumer demand, too fragile to upset their comfy lives?
Or the greedy profiteers... Often with politicians in their pockets, oil trade of course.
Your fuel import bill will fly high . That's the reason . Every country see its interests before Ukraine . 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇹🇷 🇦🇪 🇸🇦 all deal with Russia 🇷🇺 in a more mature manner than what EU and Ukraine did
@@s9ka972 mature translation= 'myopic self interest'
@@jonr6680 absolutely no . UAE for instance had no economic interests from Russia prior to Sanctions since their relations were Coordial . Russia is not seen in the same lens in Asia as what West propagate.
@@jonr6680 Another instance is India which was the only western style democracy in Asia during 1970s yet West chose to support China in its war against India in 1962 and Pakistan in its way against India in 1971 and then in 1999 . In both cases Soviet and Russia backed India in the absence of US support and they won .see after all these do they find fault in them relying ir trusting Russia over West . Problem is every one don't have an "easy to forget " memory like what Westerners have.
Wars brings BUSINESSES!😂🎉😢😮😅😊
U know a country’s navy is defunct when they have to sneak like a thief to acquire energy resources! Too funny, the mighty Russia’s Navy has to creep around like a mouse looking for cheese.
Same thing found out with gas. Russia still finds ways to sell gas to Europe. Santions must be stricter
A different flavor of laundering money.
If the UAE & India weren't bending over backwards to solve this problem for Russia, this might work.
EU ain the masters of the world , the dollar is crashing you can eithier accept that or get in line with other countries😂
You say the dollar is crashing but what else are we gonna use? Chinese commie coins 😂 Russia can't even give their rubles away 😂
@@werpe2121 are you high .countries are trading using their own currencies
@@robijorum4113 not russia
this is a middle finger to usa and eu
...five middle fingers 🤣
🍻
So easy...put a SHADOW "No Nation" bounty on it. (it means if you're caught, you're on your own) like Mission Impossible. In International waters, it's a no man's land. ANYTHING GOES. Just saying.
And what will they do with the crew and ship? They would need to take them to some country
@@andremacedo8463 would they now...
@@wamingoyes
"just saying " goes both ways ..it's fun untill Americans start falling from windows in foreign countries 😢
They can't because it would cause an international incident that they are trying to avoid.
lol the oil will flow regardless we are still buying russian oil but the eu better not rofl
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Price cap ? Who gave us that right?
If the UN had worked together with opec than that might have worked . ..... but we lost the moral higher-ground in recent decades to convince these parties to give up profits over justice.
Everyone has that right. When you go to the store, see things are more expensive than somewhere else, you leave and go there. There's your price cap. You have all the right to do that.
@ChucksSEADnDEAD a barrel right now is $78,50.
We are trying to dictate that Russia can't sell for more than $60.
The logic behind it is that they shouldn't profit from rising oil prices triggered by the war.
.... the Saudis still make money if they pay $68 and everyone is happy.
Edit: especially if it doesn't affect their pump quota
Money laundering at a whole new level.
if it is cheap we take it.. silly westerner
Russia is a sovereign country and has a right to export to any country it chooses and any price it chooses.
Russia has the obligation to abide to international laws from restoration of Ukraines borders to stop the illegal oil tranfers off-shore
Russia needs to leave Ukraine, including Crimea, and pay full reparations.
@@shaemurphy8193I would like to know what reparations did the united states pay to the Iraqi people for their losses in gulf war despite the claims of WMDs being false and United Nations declaring the us intervention as illegal.
Moreover the us troops still maintain a presence in Iraq.
Why should anyone in their right minds expect Russia to abide by international law when apparently the "biggest stick up for international law" is itself not abiding by the international law.
@@dv2045NATO has the obligation to not expand and not bomb any country it wants to increase weapons sale
@@shaemurphy8193 А почему вы не отвечаете на вопрос про репарации от США? Вам стыдно?
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Wait. Im too dumb to understand the issue, the so-called "shadow fleet" (sounds spooky). Sanctions placed a price cap on Russia oil at $60. UAE is buying that oil at max $60. So what's the issue?
The problem here is a weak US president.
President is fine, the problem is foreign actors masquerading as Republicans jamming up legislation.
If Russia was a movie character they'd be James Bond
Capitalism at its best.
Oil is SLIPPERY. 😂
Ahhah.. Looks like Russia won.. ;)
😂 we'll see about that
hahaha! hahahah! and the news is....!?
Who's stupid now
Ukraine as always. They could dealt with Putin the way Belarus did .
If Russia / Iran / others prefer non-state actors to do their work, America knows how to play that game and cause damage.
America's sanction has failed haha
lol yeah with youre LGBT army i suppose
You mean with imperialist terrorism.
Foe Trolls, saying Russia losing profit , 😂😂 The dark fleet or the greek shadow fleet purpose is to bypass the price cap , meaning No western insurance, Thus oil is sold at above the price cap ..
At 80-85$ per parell
You're not the law, you're not ruler of the earth. Russia is simply doing what every country has a right to do!
Exactly, the US has no right to tell what other countries like Iran, Russia, or China what to do
Are we allowed to annexe other nations by force aswell? If you want to work in a system that is run or operated by a country or certain countries then you follow their rules or simply get out
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@@Skraamelyr godwins law. you loose.
@@weeguy52 the US ilegally occupies Iraq and Syrian oil fields and steals the oil.
At this point, the term "Western" is essentially a pejorative...
Ivan if you keep up this dialogue they will get to you. You must leave Russia ASAP.
Explore your options in another country. It doesn't matter where you are to make
I like Russian oil, they are good people and leaders.
The Russian leaders you like so much steal the oil revenue for themselves or waste it financing their war.
When Trump was president, the US was a net exporter of oil and prices were below $60.
U.S. crude oil exports in the first half of 2023 averaged 3.99 million barrels per day (b/d), which is a record high for the first half of a year since 2015, when the U.S. ban on most crude oil exports from the United States was repealed.
USA and Russia making money. Russians economy is rising. How come. ? How is backing up ? USA !!!!