The issue of replacing an inadequate supplier will be resolved fairly quickly in terms of gas as well. For example, oil, which will soon fall under the embargo, may be replaced in the near future by Iran.
"Iran is preparing to launch the country's largest oil field and could double its exports of 'black gold' to meet global demand," Moshen Hojastehmer, managing director of NOC (National Oil Company), said.
According to him, in the coming months, NOC plans to sign agreements with banks to finance the project to develop the second phase of the Azadegan field, which has reserves of 32 billion barrels and is one of the five largest on the planet.
For comparison: all of Russia's reserves are estimated at 100 billion barrels, while the Ministry of Energy considers only a third of them profitable.
Are you serious?  Iran is one of Russia's strategic partners with many joint projects, including in the field of oil production and oil refining. Even if you factor out the sanctions generously imposed by the West on Iran, by buying oil from Iran you are also indirectly buying oil from Russia. Venezuela has a similar story. Russia's oil embargo has failed, Europe cannot agree on and accept the sixth package of sanctions. Europe has already reached its sanctions limit, further escalation of sanctions against Russia harms Europe itself more than Russia. And Europe will also have to pay for gas in rubles, European companies hastily open accounts with Gazprombank. |
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I am really confused as to how exactly this is going to lead to a wheat war? I really do not see wheat as the only food source available to humans
Well it is not just wheat, it is basic food stuff. You are right, wheat is not only bread and spaghetti, first of all it is the basis of the forage base for animal husbandry (chickens, pork, beef). |
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So, Russia should be happy now. Instead of potentially having border with NATO in Ukraine in future, now they will have 1300km border with NATO in Finland, just less than 200km from north capital St. Petersburg, plys Sweden nearby. Actions of Russia in Ukraine simply left no other choice for Sweden and Finland and pushed to join NATO. They can't stay neutral. Putin said today that he has no problems with Finland and Sweden. But if their entry into NATO entails existential threats to Russia in the form of NATO military bases or US nuclear arsenals appearing on their territory, then Russia will make its military-technical response, whatever that means.
Is it not double standard? Why Finland and Sweden can join NATO and Ukraine can't. Before war started, Ukraine wasn't even close from joining NATO, not even talking about NATO military bases and nuclear weapons there. Ukraine needed to think about this before cultivating an anti-Russian policy and building its national self-identity on the idea of "Ukraine is anti-Russia." n addition, you talk about the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO as a fait accompli, but Turkey explicitly expresses its disagreement and readiness to use its veto. Erdogan owes Putin and it seems the time has come to repay the debt. |
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It is like a double whammy. Russia is having a bumper crop, but they can't export some of it as a result of sanctions and embargoes. Ukraine is one of the top producers, and the less said about them, that better. And another major producer (India) has banned wheat exports for this year. Now at the receiving end we have the major wheat importers. On top we have Indonesia, and then there are countries such as China, Turkey, Egypt and Algeria. China and Indonesia may continue with imports from Russia, but the other countries are in a tricky position.
Russia has a ban on wheat exports until the end of June 2022. |
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Lol... still pretending that we use "his sources" as credible is kind of fun. But yes, they surrendered, it had to happen.
You are trying in vain to put on a good face on a bad game. No, they shouldn't have given up, it's a shame. The "cyborgs" from Azov were to die and become heroes - that would have been a military defeat, but a political victory for Kyiv. And now it's just an inglorious defeat of Kyiv, and a shameful defeat of the Nazi ideals of Azov, which, in fact, turned out to be not worthy of dying for them. There will be no exchange, military investigators are already working and Nazi criminals will be convicted. The surrender continues, last night another 200 Nazis of Azov came out of the bunker in addition to 265 from the first batch. Meanwhile, Russia has decided to test the new Terminator tank support fighting vehicle in combat conditions. |
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... Source?
The original source was Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the Vostok battalion of the People's Militia of the DPR. The information seems to be confirmed, although not in full in terms of numbers. Ahhhh... "that type of source". , in more detail, footage of the surrender of the militants of the Azov nationalist unit and Ukrainian servicemen blocked at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. |
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Why Russia isn't using it's full force in Ukraine ? Why the russians are allowing the ukrainens to win ... they had Kiev in their hands and then they retreat ,it makes no sense,tactically it makes no sense ... as a general i would have bombed Kiev like Mariupol or worse ... Russia has a lot of resources ...ammo never finishes for russians ...you had Kiev in your hands why would you give it back ? ...no sense ... https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/2/why-hasnt-russia-mobilised-its-vast-air-power-against-ukraineRussia is using soft power tactics to sway the sympathies of Ukrainian civilians. Therefore, the Kherson region has already announced its withdrawal from Ukraine and the desire to join Russia. Russia acts in Ukraine not as an occupier, but as a liberator. This is much more difficult and longer than bombing everything with air bombs and cleaning up the ruins. But in the long run, it's a winning strategy. Mariupol - more than 30,000 civilians killed. And there has not yet been an investigation into the cause of death. I am sure that when they are carried out, the Nazi sadists, against the background of their heirs of the Rashists, will seem like petty hooligans ... Irpin and Bucha - hundreds of civilians killed (these are small towns near Kyiv). Killed in a sadistic way, hands tied behind their backs, usually shot in the back of the head. I saw this personally, in the first days after the liberation of Irpin ... In basements and other "secluded places" - a lot of corpses with terrible signs of torture. This is all recorded, and all those responsible will be punished, if not by international courts, then by alternative means. Arrivals of rockets in RESIDENTIAL houses ... Doesn't it seem to you a strange method of achieving sympathy? Well, about Kherson and the Kherson region - I understand that the concept of any supporter of the Russian world is to lie, everywhere, always, and cynically, but not in the same stupid way ?!  In Kherson, they already tried to bring bio-garbage from the DPR / LPR, which were supposed to create the appearance of crowds of local residents and hold another fake referendum. We know perfectly well that the Kremlin parody of Hitler will try to repeat this clowning and proclaim new "republics", but we all know that not a single normal person, in normal mental health, would agree to become part of Russia and live in Russia - this is a terrible punishment, and for life And about the "liberators" - tell me, whom is Russia freeing in Ukraine? There is no need for Russian speakers - I myself am an ethnic Russian, Russian speaker, and I have never seen any harassment in Ukraine! But the sadism of the Russians-I saw. So who are they freeing here and from whom? All your accusations are essentially groundless, and the evidence is fabricated by Ukrainian propaganda, for which lying is the only activity available. It is doubly funny that today the mass surrender of the Nazis of Azov in Mariupol and all of them will be interrogated in the DPR for war crimes. In conjunction with a package of accusations of the activities of biological laboratories in Ukraine, where experiments were performed on patients in a mental hospital near Kharkov, etc. I think this will pull on the Nuremberg trials two, which will be initiated by Russia following the results of a special operation. Ukraine is bankrupt and the Armed Forces of Ukraine will soon be defeated in the Donbass. Even individual tactical successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not change its overall losing strategy and the situation since the end of February. The soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the eastern front are already tired, demoralized, deprived of rotation and the ability to maneuver. |
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Wet fantasies about lend-lease and about a million recruits in the tenth wave of mobilization? Freshly. Why are you still not on the eastern front? |
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Looks like it is people with 'Z's giving the wounded Azov people(?) the medical help they badly need. Are you saying that (the shrinking) Ukraine is only swapping healthy Azov 'defenders' and leaving the sick and wounded to the care of Russia/Donesk?
They're swapping the wounded ones. It makes sense for Russians to keep them alive so not sure what you're getting at. On May 16, 53 seriously injured people were evacuated from Azovstal to a medical facility in Novoazovsk for medical care. Another 211 people were taken to Olenivka through the humanitarian corridor. An exchange procedure will be carried out to return them home.
Four healthy Nazis of Azov carried each seriously wounded on a stretcher, no one returned to the bunker. I think now the wounded will receive medical care, the healthy will be interrogated, and only then they will decide what to do with them. They surrendered and their fate is now in the hands of the DNR. The end of the myth about the underground thousand, in short. Source?
The original source was Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of the Vostok battalion of the People's Militia of the DPR. The information seems to be confirmed, although not in full in terms of numbers. |
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In a month's time the stand of India on wheat export have changed completely upside down. India made the first statement louder and the second one in a much quite way. Publicity without proper understanding is the reason for such moves. The entire world is in short, and India being the second largest producer of wheat could've handled the situation better. Because, there is more and more flaws in buying from the farmers and proper way of warehousing.
India can be understood, now it is the most numerous country in the world and it should first of all think about its own food security. It is unlikely that this decision was dictated by foreign policy motives; rather, it was influenced by the abnormal heat in March. In France, the situation with the climate is also unfavorable, there has been no rain for two months. |
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It seems that ordinary peaceful people, not affected by the virus of radical nationalism, absolutely do not care what flag they live under, as long as they are not shot at. Russians do not shoot at civilians, Ukrainians shoot, I think their choice is obvious.
No one was shooting at civilians in Kherson until Russians came and started it: https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/03/21/kherson-ukraine-explosion-gunfire-newsroom-berman-vpx.cnnIt seems that peaceful life is being actively restored in the city, including electricity and water supply. Soon we will see who and what was hiding in the bunkers near Azovstal and who you are so actively protecting here.
Yes, invaders trying to turn the power on for their HQ and setting apartments on fire: https://t.me/andriyshTime/892Pyccкий миp. Are you paid for posts in this section in your bounty campaign? Let's move to the political section where you don't get paid to post, I don't want you to make money broadcasting your Nazi shit here. Moreover, the topic is clearly political and has nothing to do with economics. I hope for your understanding. |
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Kherson region has already announced its withdrawal from Ukraine and the desire to join Russia.
Residents of the Kherson region will have a chance to express their will in a referendum.
Russian "liberation" in all its beauty. They already know the will of the people, who lived peacefully just a few months ago and didn't have any intent "to join Russia", It seems that ordinary peaceful people, not affected by the virus of radical nationalism, absolutely do not care what flag they live under, as long as they are not shot at. Russians do not shoot at civilians, Ukrainians shoot, I think their choice is obvious. But there will still be a referendum. Mariupol was not bombed, Azovstal was bombed.
Right, nearly every building in Mariupol decided to just randomly catch fire or otherwise destroy itself, like the infamous underwater missile cruiser. The peaceful life is being actively restored in the city, including electricity and water supply. Soon we will see who and what was hiding in the bunkers near Azovstal and who you are so actively protecting here. The underground thousand changed their minds about dying for the glory of the Fourth Reich. |
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And at the same time some of the shale gas producers in the United States have refrained from ramping up their production, for unknown reasons.
Shale oil producers in the US got a very painful disappointment a few years ago when oil was cheap and shale oil production became unprofitable. Now it's profitable again, but investment is in no hurry to return to the industry, because the "greens" in the US and Europe now have a very strong lobby. Their favorite mantra is renewable energy and they are full of contempt for fossil energy sources. |
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Putin said today that he has no problems with Finland and Sweden. But if their entry into NATO entails existential threats to Russia in the form of NATO military bases or US nuclear arsenals appearing on their territory, then Russia will make its military-technical response, whatever that means.
Now, it should be clear to anyone with half a brain that the 'problem with Ukraine' was not about its NATO membership or 'prosecution of the Russian language', but simply full access to the Black Sea, farmland, and Donbas resources. Finland's and Sweden's NATO memberships are not a 'problem' for Russia now even though Russia's border with NATO increased substantially. The 'problem with Ukraine' is the dementia and courage of Ukrainian nationalists. Scandinavians are more balanced people. Of course, there will be nuclear weapons and NATO bases in Finland. Why do you think they are joining? To get membership cards?
Sweden has already stated that its accession to NATO will not entail the appearance of NATO military bases and nuclear weapons on its territory. I think Finland will prudently follow its example, because Putin, in a conversation with the President of Finland, clearly said that this was a mistake. It's time to start listening to what Putin says, because he has already shown that he is not bluffing or joking. BTW, Russians are eradicating the Ukrainian language and culture in the occupied territories. School curricula have been changed to completely Russify the population, and completely ignore the needs of the native population of the occupied territories.
Russkiy fucking mir. Russians are the true Nazis.
I hope Ukrainians will keep killing Russians until the last one leaves their lands.
The hopes of young men are nourished. |
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Russia is using soft power tactics to sway the sympathies of Ukrainian civilians. Therefore, the Kherson region has already announced its withdrawal from Ukraine and the desire to join Russia.
Not "Kherson region", but a puppet government installed by Russians. The dog barks, the caravan moves on. Residents of the Kherson region will have a chance to express their will in a referendum. In the meantime, Ukraine has stopped paying pensions and social benefits to residents of the Kherson region, and Russia is doing this for Ukraine. And Ukraine shoots at residential areas, this is the only thing it knows how to do well. Russia acts in Ukraine not as an occupier, but as a liberator. This is much more difficult and longer than bombing everything with air bombs and cleaning up the ruins. But in the long run, it's a winning strategy.
Except out here in the real world they bombed and shelled Mariupol for two months. Mariupol was not bombed, Azovstal was bombed. |
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At first, Russia thought that it will be a quick military operation and they will achieve their goals. But they have failed.
Rumors about the Russian blitzkrieg are based on the value judgment of the US intelligence, which in the course of one year made a gross mistake twice - first in Afghanistan, and then in Ukraine, incorrectly assessing the combat effectiveness of local armies. I repeat once again, the opinion that Kyiv will hold out for 3-4 days in the event of aggression from Russia belongs to the CIA. Russia is running its operation at its own pace on its own schedule and it will end when Russia says "enough". |
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Putin said today that he has no problems with Finland and Sweden. But if their entry into NATO entails existential threats to Russia in the form of NATO military bases or US nuclear arsenals appearing on their territory, then Russia will make its military-technical response, whatever that means.
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Why Russia isn't using it's full force in Ukraine ? Why the russians are allowing the ukrainens to win ... they had Kiev in their hands and then they retreat ,it makes no sense,tactically it makes no sense ... as a general i would have bombed Kiev like Mariupol or worse ... Russia has a lot of resources ...ammo never finishes for russians ...you had Kiev in your hands why would you give it back ? ...no sense ... https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/2/why-hasnt-russia-mobilised-its-vast-air-power-against-ukraineRussia is using soft power tactics to sway the sympathies of Ukrainian civilians. Therefore, the Kherson region has already announced its withdrawal from Ukraine and the desire to join Russia. Russia acts in Ukraine not as an occupier, but as a liberator. This is much more difficult and longer than bombing everything with air bombs and cleaning up the ruins. But in the long run, it's a winning strategy. |
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It's amazing, Russia accounts for only 2% of world GDP, but it seems that this is the very necessary two percent that you can eat, pour into the gas tank of a car or heat a house with them in winter. And everything else is just numbers on the stock exchange.
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Shit happens....
It seems that progress has finally been made with Azovstal. Right now, a silence regime has been declared and an agreement has been reached on the surrender of 650 wounded Azov fighters to the DPR. No extraction, surrender. |
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