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04-08-24, 09:10 AM | #3061 |
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Ukraine faces retreat without US aid, Zelensky says
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/29/europ...hnk/index.html Old article, but what it implies is Europe is just a bunch of grifters looking for handouts and who are still unwilling to step up to the plate and contribute enough to their own defense let alone help someone else.
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Russia seeks gasoline from Kazakhstan in case of shortages, sources say Russia has asked Kazakhstan to stand ready to supply it with 100,000 tons of gasoline in case of shortages exacerbated by Ukrainian drone attacks and outages, three industry sources told Reuters. One of the sources said a deal on using reserves for Russia has already been agreed. Shyngys Ilyasov, an advisor to Kazakhstan's energy minister, said the energy ministry has not received such a request from its Russian counterpart. Russian energy ministry did not reply to a request for comment.Neighbouring Belarus has already agreed to help Russia with gasoline supply. Drone attacks had knocked out some 14% of Russian primary oil refining capacity as of end-March. So far authorities have said the situation on domestic fuel markets is stable and stockpiles large enough. Russia is usually a net exporter of fuel and a supplier to international markets but the refinery disruptions have forced its oil companies to import. The sources said Moscow asked Kazakhstan to set up an emergency reserve of 100,000 metric tons of gasoline ready to supply to Russia. Moscow imposed a gasoline export ban for six months from March 1 to prevent acute fuel shortages, although it does not apply to the Moscow-led Eurasian economic union, including Kazakhstan, as well as some countries, such as Mongolia, with which it has inter-government deals on fuel supplies. However, traders said the ban could be widened if the situation in Russia worsens. Last week, the Orsk oil refinery in the Urals halted production due to widespread floods, which also affected Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan, the world's largest land-locked country, has also restricted fuel exports until the end of the year, apart from for humanitarian purposes. According to the sources, Kazakhstan's reserves of Ai-92 gasoline stood at 307,700 tons as of April 5 and Ai-95 gasoline stockpiles at 58,000 tons. Diesel reserves were 435,300 tons and jet fuel inventories totalled 101,000 tons. https://www.reuters.com/business/ene...ay-2024-04-08/
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04-08-24, 12:38 PM | #3063 |
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04-08-24, 02:11 PM | #3064 |
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04-08-24, 04:51 PM | #3065 |
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04-08-24, 05:21 PM | #3066 |
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Funny but this probably belongs in the U.S. politics thread with the other nonsense. The video only mentions some in one political party, tagging them with the same old song and dance, “if you don’t agree with us you must be Putins asset”, gee where have I heard that before? You see we live in a representative democracy and even the kook fringe in this country like to feel they have someone speaking for them, it’s how political parties pick up new voters and it seems Republicans are just now learning how to use the Democrat party playbook. Plus there’s more to passing the supplemental than fixing Ukraine, it’s also about our rising debt, interest payments on our debt, our southern border and of course congress squabbling for more pork and clout. Putin assets are everywhere probably even hiding in your closet be careful. Speaking of Russian assets wasn’t Denmark one of those granting Putin permission to build his gas export pipeline through Danish waters? Europe was even warned of the consequences of allowing Putin to do this and they just mocked the messenger and did it anyway? That must mean everyone in the Danish and other EU governments who allowed it must be a Russian asset then too right? It’s Europes actions particularly Germany that got us here in the first place. Now you all are crying the U.S. isn’t doing enough to fix it. Lol
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04-08-24, 05:40 PM | #3067 |
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You're are so right
And I was thinking on posting it in our US-Politics thread. Markus
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04-08-24, 06:51 PM | #3068 |
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Whoops I’m sorry, it wasn’t all of the E.U. Governments who were, as the usual suspects would say, Putin assets & Kremlin stooges. Countries from the Baltics to Poland to Slovakia had been urging Berlin to abandon the project for well over a decade. They were mocked and ignored by the goons below as well.
But hey, I have to admit that not all Putin assets and Kremlin Stooges are European. Because no sooner did Biden and his sidekick The Boy Wonder Jake Sullivan take office they immediately went to work lifting the sanctions Trump placed on Nord Stream 2. Which also might answer why Biden & Co. don’t seem all that interested in using Presidential Drawdown Authority or that 4 billion they already have at their disposal to help Ukraine. Maybe why the only European countries namely Poland and the Baltics, that seem to be urging more U.S. aid are the same ones that warned us of the rekindled German and Russian love affair.
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04-08-24, 08:19 PM | #3069 |
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“Update from Ukraine” really? He not in Ukraine, last I heard this sell out left Ukraine in late 2022.
Also, what’s the point of issuing new military equipment if there’s nobody around to use it because clueless smack talkers like the guy above keep leaving? Ukraine needs to immediately start the 18+ conscription model, or it will lose the war. To assist with that the EU should also immediately begin repatriating all healthy male Ukrainian nationals back to Ukraine. Maybe Ukraine can also conscript all the orthodox priests they arrested, the army needs ditch diggers too.
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04-09-24, 01:40 AM | #3070 |
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The US should offer to send all Joe's illegal aliens over to Ukraine for use as a foreign legion. If they survive the war they can have Ukrainian citizenship.
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04-09-24, 04:59 AM | #3071 |
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I will not object to that Merkel and Schröder and Scholz were and are Putin's most useful idiots. And the majoirty of German industry leaders.
And they are already hard at work of repeating the same mistake they made with Russia. Just this time regarding China. Never trust the Germans. They are dumm. See how they run their "Energiewende" and migration policy. Hilarious.
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04-09-24, 06:43 AM | #3072 | |
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UN body urges restraint after Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant hit
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04-09-24, 07:37 AM | #3073 | |
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Russia Turns to Kazakhstan for Gasoline Support
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04-09-24, 08:23 AM | #3074 |
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According to a report of La Republicca, NATO is willign to accept a division of Ukraine like the German one after WW2.
https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/202...sia-422425005/ I look sharp for anything surprising in this news, but I find nothing. There will be no decisive boost of support from the US no matter the election's outcome, and not from Europe either. Ukraine is done. But different to Western "hopes", Russia will not leave it to this. I also mdont believe that Ukraine will ever become a NATO member. This would mean that when Russia chooses to continue with its war agaiunst Ukraine, NAOT mwould be needed to accept war of the alliance with Russia and even nuclear exchnages, else the facade of article 5 would collapse and NAOT would have been demsaked as a toothless tiger. But I do not see at all any willingness to risk the destruction of Westenr metropoles in exchange for Russian metropoles only to defend Ukraine. A EU memberhsip in my understanding also is highly illosury, it would mean an almpst cataclssimc fincial stress on the fincial system and its - debt-baes - "ressources in Euro-land , and would mean a massive loss of influence of Paris and Berlin that nobody in these capitals want. If the EU ever accepts Ukraine in, then only because a generation of reality-deniers seize control of the helm in Brussel. This however is not really the most unlikely of scenarios, so I may get proven wrong on my assessment of chances of a EU membership of Ukrane even against the odds. The terrible mistakes leading to all this were made already 2014, and 1994. All what happens now and happened in past years, was caused by those two years. Think of Karma!
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04-09-24, 11:18 AM | #3075 |
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^ All of the above is potentially foreseeable but who I wonder on the western side will be blamed.
Each and every one I suspect.
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