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“The economic blitzkrieg strategy didn’t work,” Russian President Vladimir Putin says while adding that those who initiated the sanctions are paying a heavy price with inflation and unemployment growth. (Russian with English subtitles)NN: Putin is right. He would have never started this war unless he was sure Europe had no alternative…….. He is a evil genus..

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Deripaska, founder of Russian aluminum giant Rusal RUAL.MM, has been sanctioned by the United States, European Union and Britain. He has previously called for peace. A witness saw the 73-meter (239.5 foot) yacht Clio arrive off the coast of Gocek in the Aegean coastal province of Mugla on Saturday. The Cayman Islands-flagged vessel remains in a bay off Gocek. The arrival of Clio in Turkish waters comes after two superyachts linked to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, who made a surprise appearance at Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Istanbul this month, docked in Turkish ports. World governments are seeking to isolate President Vladimir Putin and his allies over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which the Kremlin calls a “special military operation.” NATO member Turkey shares a maritime border with Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea, has good ties with both and mediates in the conflict. It has supported Kyiv, but also opposed sanctions on Moscow, including measures against Russian billionaires. Ankara relies heavily on Russian energy imports and tourists and has emerged as a safe haven for Russians fleeing sanctions, and many have invested in Turkish property. NN: their is ALWAYS a way out…….

• A Russian diplomatic note told the US to stop arming Ukraine, warning of “unpredictable consequences.”
• The note was delivered to the State Department earlier this week, the Washington Post reported.
• The note was sent as the US was preparing to announce a new aid package for Ukraine.

Russia this week sent a diplomatic note to the State Department calling the US to stop sending military aid to Ukraine.The Washington Post first reported on the document, also called a demarche. “We call on the United States and its allies to stop the irresponsible militarization of Ukraine, which implies unpredictable consequences for regional and international security,” it read. The note was sent as the Biden administration readied itself to announce the latest round of aid to Ukraine – an $800 million package that includes “highly effective weapons systems.” These new capabilities include artillery systems, artillery rounds, and armored personnel carriers. I have also approved the transfer of additional helicopters,” President Joe Biden said in a Wednesday press release regarding the new aid package. “In addition, we continue to facilitate the transfer of significant capabilities from our Allies and partners around the world.” The State Department announced earlier this month the Biden administration has sent more than $1.7 billion in aid to Ukraine since the invasion started on February 24. NN: if you analyze the humiliating defeat America suffered in Viet Nam one of the factors was not stopping China from supplying the enemy. America was to afraid of dragging China into the war. Today America and the EU is supplying Ukraine with weapons. Russia will not make the same mistake. It will bomb supply lines because it knows America and NATO do not have the stomach for a fight. The popular myth is Russia is losing… A pigs ass in reality Ukraine is being pounded into submission.The fairy tale is so the masses do not realize that Ukraine is another sell out of freedom fighters in the making. Ask the Kurd’s, the freedom fighter in Syria and the Afghanistanies who bought into the US is here to save you myth…. the most recent American  sellout to the Taliban of all people. You can add to the list the Iranians who risked it all thinking the US would help them overthrow the … Ayatollahs Funny  how that don’t talk about that much…… Bay of Pigs anyone.

(Reuters) – Russian gas producer Gazprom continued to supply natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Sunday in line with requests from European consumers, it said in a statement. Requests stood at 57 million cubic metres for April 17, it said. NN: For the record the EU is paying a billion dollars a day just for Russian gas. As in paid in full money received by Russia. You can wipe your ass with the stupid sanctions.. A billion dollars a day buy a lot of bombs and troops to send to Ukraine to rape pillage and plunder…… if  this war continues at some point the gas flows through the Ukraine will be cut. It shows you the power of money. Russia and the Ukraine are at each others throats. Still they both continue the gas flows because they are both making money……..

Some of Russia’s natural gas customers have agreed to pay in rubles for Russian gas, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday. Last month, Vladimir Putin said that “unfriendly” nations should pay in rubles for natural gas. Russia had set a March 31 deadline for the countries it considers “hostile”—including the United States, all EU member states, Switzerland, Canada, Norway, South Korea, Japan, and many others—to start paying in rubles for natural gas. The EU has rejected Putin’s demands for payments in rubles, while Russia did not immediately cut off the gas supply to Europe after April 1, partly because it is dependent on revenues from gas and partly because payments for gas delivered after April 1 are not due until later this month or early May.   The Kremlin has signaled the gas-for-rubles demand is just the beginning of a switch to the Russian currency for Russian exports. “We expect the decision [to switch to rubles] from other importers,” Novak was quoted by Reuters as saying at an energy ministry in-house magazine. The Russian official, however, did not disclose which buyers had agreed to pay in rubles for gas. Armenia, for example, has already started paying in rubles for Russian gas, Armenian Economy Minister Vahan Kerobyan told Russian outlet RBC in an interview published on Friday. According to the Armenian minister, the pricing of the gas is being made in U.S. dollars, but the actual payment is now being made in Russian rubles. In the EU, Hungary—whose Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been in close ties with Putin for a decade—said last week that it was ready to pay in rubles for Russian natural gas. With comments from officials over the past week, Hungary has broken ranks with the EU, which has been seeking to present a unified front in the face of Putin’s demands for rubles for Russian gas. NN: Putin’s position is solid. Europe screams that the gas contracts they signed called for payment in dollars or Euro’s. Well the deal has changed…. with them freezing Russia foreign reserves held in  namely dollar and euro accounts. Its a pretty simple proposition. Pay him in FINDABLE currencies or he will not sell them his oil and gas. Unless Europe is willing to invade Russia and take over his oil and gas fields they are screwed. Since their are no replacement supplies and will not be for years to come… its time for Europe to suck it up and realize they are screwed..

I want you to clearly understand the fact their is no replacement for Russian Oil and natural gas. strategic oil  stockpiles will be depleted in a matter of months…. natural gas supplies could be exhausted in a matter of weeks,,, this is serious and getting worse by the day

 

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The world was already struggling to combat a global energy supply squeeze well before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now, as world powers seek to condemn the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine by crippling the Russian economy, it’s becoming increasingly clear that energy sanctions will be a necessary part of any meaningful global response. In order to hit Russia where it hurts, however, those doing the sanctioning are also going to feel an economic backlash as the exit of Russian oil, coal, and gas from the global energy supply leaves many European and Asian countries scrambling for new sources of fuel. In fact, the threat posed to Europe’s energy security by sanctions on Russia have left European leaders gridlocked and struggling to agree on how, what, and how much to boycott. Unable to come to an accord around Russian oil and gas, which provide nearly half of Europe’s energy imports, the European Union has agreed to start with a Russian coal ban, slated to begin in August. While this may seem like a weak and belated effort when compared with the magnitude and urgency of the atrocities unfolding in Ukraine, this relatively small step will leave the continent scrambling to find 40 million tons of replacement coal. Thanks to the lingering effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic, a global energy supply squeeze has led many of the world’s countries back to coal as oil and gas prices skyrocket. This means that weaning the world off of Russian coal imports will be an even bigger challenge for European and Asian countries that have ratcheted up their coal consumption in recent months. In 2021 alone, European imports of Russian coal increased by 22.4%. Coal prices are already near a record high, and the instatement of the European boycott in August will drive them even higher. Even so, the coal ban will have a much greater impact on Russia than it will on the European Union. “It’s bad news for Putin, but won’t devastate the EU,” Fortune recently reported. For one thing, European buyers have already begun their shift away from Russian coal, and the August deadline, which Germany pushed for, will ease the burden of finding new sources of coal in a hurry. The European Union is far from the only economic bloc that will be scrambling to find new sources of coal. Many Asian nations, too, will be looking for non-Russian imports. Notably, Japan recently announced that it, too, will ban Russian coal imports in a “surprise policy shift” that was a reversal of the nation’s previous refusal to extend its embargo to the Russian energy imports that Japan heavily relies upon. “Russia’s cruel and inhumane actions are coming to light one after another all over Ukraine,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told reporters on Friday. “We will ban imports of Russian coal.” This means that some of the world’s biggest coal consumers will be competing in an already tight market for new coal supplies. Top global coal exporters Australia and Indonesia have already hit their production limits, and South Africa, another major coal producer, is facing logistical problems in their own coal supply chains. According to Fortune, the European Union will likely be looking to the United States and Colombia for coal imports come August, and Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic will be ramping up their domestic production levels. China, too, will be massively increasing its production levels. While Beijing will not be exporting domestically produced coal, the production increase will lessen demand for international imports, thereby freeing up some supply on the global marketplace for other nations scrambling to keep the lights on without cutting a check to the Kremlin.  NN: Their are several factors that effect thermal  coal  utilization rates.  its competes against natural gas and oil for the generation of electricity. Price, availability and location are all import factors. Their is so much shit being blown.. In fact its a blizzard of bullshit. Europe has a no shit out of control energy crises. It was a world changing event before Ukraine.  Europe bought into the greeniewinnie lie. It shut down its nukes, closed coal fired generators, prohibited drilling for oil on the continent. This occurred over the last 4 years. Rather then tell the people the renewable wet dream was failing…. They quietly doubled reliance on Russia oil, gas and coal.  So their solution since they cannot not quit their Opioid addiction is to stop smoking. Hence the coal embargo. The problem is their are no readily available alternative coal  supplies. Thermal coal has gone up in price 400% from $50 a ton in September 2020  to $200 a metric ton in March. As a direct result of the  incredible stupid decision by Europe to bar Russian coal. The now  price surged to $314 a metric ton on Thursday.   A 600% increase in price. Who is punishing who. Russia coal sales are not affected… their are plenty of buyers. These stupid ass sanctions are doing nothing but bringing Russia record amounts of money. Instead of discouraging they only serve to encourage and reward him. And the insane part of all this is it makes Europe even more reliant on Russian gas.     See the trick? They are not about to ban Russian gas and oil…….. they can’t.  The Russian coal ban makes it look like to the ignorant masses l they are doing something.