Treading (Crude) Lightly
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The European Union have recently introduced their 13th sanction package against Russia (because the first 12 weren’t effective enough). There’s a bunch of interesting takeaways, namely that the sanctions do not pulverize Russia as you’re being lied to from the Eurocrats. If you’ve seen the recent Tucker in Moscow clips from our TWITTER ACCOUNT, read our interview with a professional in Moscow or subscribed to our premium service, you’ll know that Russia is doing just fine. After reading through the 9th one there’s an interesting detail I wish to share. First #StayOnTheBall with our free newsletter:
The countries of Slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary have negotiated that they will resume Russian fuel imports until late 2024. The justification for this is that these countries are permitted to export this Russian fuel to Ukraine–but in reality it simply passes through Ukraine.
Of course it seems silly that the Russians would agree to sell their fuel to send to the Ukraine, why would Russia equip their ‘enemy’? This has been going on for some time now. Most Americans & Europeans believe that the “war” (which has never been declared as such) is the entirety of Ukraine when in reality it’s on the bridges borders West & East, who have never seen eye-to-eye. Its easy to see that the war is nothing more than a foreign policy act from Washington given the continuation of trade and commerce between all the nations, even if it is in a round about way or using shadow companies.
That’s a whole other conversation, the point I wish to illustrate is that there are still a few countries in the EU that are demonstrating they know the importance of energy & to not completely detach from Russia just yet. However, succession from the EU by these European states seems rather unlikely given their dependence of free credit from Brussels. Though they seem to understand that energy is de facto your economy, and without it you’re undoubtedly going to impact your local economic output. It’s unclear whether this is ignorance, evil or a blend of both from Brussels, but if we’re picking the cleanest dirty shirts, it seems that Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia are hesitant to do their head in just yet. Perhaps the countries in the European Union who have retained their national identity will fair better off in the future. The rest, namely Germany, France and United Kingdom have all entered in a recession of stagflation this month. No jobs, and everything goes up in price. They could simply end this political money-laundering scheme, but that’s too easy.
But who knows, maybe the 14th round of sanctions will liberate their economy!
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