I’m impressed. You know your history.
If only Indicted War Criminal Little Pukin could learn from history... Something about starting wars in Europe...
We have to teach him again.
Looking back over my 2020 Election Day thread.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3901275/posts?page=1
Some interesting names popped up.
marcus was there. One of the good guys.
Jon Boy was there. Little did I know that he was a RuZZian Boy on an American website. I was naive back then...
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1812763605944738019
There is a lot of damage shown in the video.
Several other x.com blog posts discuss this train derailment, however, this is the only blog post claiming a possible head-on collision.
I believe partisans were "involved".
President Zelensky reported that Ukraine is working on security agreements with none more countries, including Czechia, Slovenia, and Ireland.
Nine more would bring the total to 32.
Sanctions are working dramatically effectively on Russia’s once great Natural Gas industry - even China is taking part. Now the Europeans are also starting their first sanctions on Russian LNG projects. No exports (none) are happening from the Arctic LNG 2 project, which was supposed to start last year, and no activity on financing a planned new Power of Siberia 2 natural gas pipeline is occurring.
Putin did that.
OilPrice.com reports:
“The Arctic LNG 2 project in Russia, which Western sanctions have hit in recent months, significantly reduced its production of natural gas in May (55 mcm, from 215 the month before) as it hasn’t exported any LNG yet, a source with knowledge of output data told Reuters on Tuesday...
...Located in the Gydan Peninsula in the Arctic, the Arctic LNG 2 project was considered key to Russia’s efforts to boost its global LNG market share from 8% to 20% by 2030-2035.
But Arctic LNG 2 has been basically on ice since the U.S. imposed in November 2023 fresh sanctions on the Russian project...
...Arctic LNG 2 started operations such as natural gas extraction in December, but it hasn’t been able to ship any LNG cargo abroad yet...
...Potential contract cancellations for the construction of ice-class LNG carriers and the sanctions on Arctic LNG 2 could hamper Russia’s plans to boost LNG sales now that its pipeline route to Europe is largely cut off. (Pipeline gas to Europe accounted for 85% of Russia’s natural gas exports in 2021, before Putin scuttled the industry with his invasion)
Furthermore, Chinese engineering company Wison New Energies discontinued all ongoing Russian projects and will immediately and indefinitely stop taking any new Russian business, dealing a blow to Arctic LNG 2, for which Wison was to supply equipment for a gas turbine power station at the plant.
The EU added insult to injury as it banned last month (June 2024) new investments, as well as the provision of goods, technology, and services for the completion of Russian LNG projects under construction, such as Arctic LNG 2 and Murmansk LNG, in the first EU sanctions targeting Russia’s gas sector.”
Russia’s recent 4% uptick in Crude oil exports only lasted a couple of weeks, and they have since fallen back lower (and faster) than their pre-blip downtrend.
Putin.
OilPrice.com reports: Russia’s Crude Oil Exports Slip To Lowest Level Since January
“Russian seaborne crude oil exports dropped... to around 3.11 million barrels per day (bpd) in the four weeks to July 14, down by around 180,000 bpd from the four-week average from the week prior, according to the data reported by Bloomberg’s Julian Lee.
The latest four-week average crude shipments were the lowest observed seaborne exports out of Russia since January this year.
In the past weeks, the four-week average export volumes have continuously dropped, Bloomberg’s tanker-tracking data showed...
...The likely explanation could be Russia improving compliance with the OPEC+ cuts and raising domestic refining rates, according to Bloomberg’s Lee.
Over the past two weeks, most of the decline in Russian crude shipments came from the Western ports on the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. Exports from the Primorsk and Ust-Luga ports on the Baltic have slumped by 30% compared to a recent high in April, while exports from the port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea have almost halved from their recent high.
After a drop in shipments between the April high and early June, Russia’s seaborne crude exports started rising again in June, and the volumes recovered about one-third of their recent decline.
This came even as Russia’s Energy Ministry pledged earlier in June that Russia would reach its oil production quota in June after exceeding its target output under the OPEC+ deal in May.”
Baltic states to complete decoupling from Russian-controlled power grid by early 2025
Kyiv Independent reports:
“The Baltic States’ power system operators informed Russia and Belarus that they would disconnect from the Moscow-controlled post-Soviet power grid starting in February 2025, media outlet LRT reported on July 16.
Lithuanian operator Litgrid, Latvian AST, and Estonian Elering informed the Russian and Belarusian operators that they would not extend the BRELL agreement, which expires in February 2025...
...The Baltic States’ operators plan to join the Continental Europe Synchronous Area with synchronization on Feb. 9, 2025...
...All three Baltic electricity systems are already prepared for “emergency synchronization at any moment” according to Litgrid. (Because they know how Putin is with energy blackmail)...
...The Baltic nations initially aimed to join the European system by the end of 2025. However, following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, they advanced the timeline by nearly a year.”
BoJo knows Trump:
“@BorisJohnson (on X)
Great to meet President Trump who is on top form after the shameful attempt on his life. We discussed Ukraine and I have no doubt that he will be strong and decisive in supporting that country and defending democracy. (16 July)”