We have done more damage to ourselves than we have to Russia. The money keeps rolling in to Putin. The world supply is the world supply. The EU and soon the US is borrowing hundreds of billions to subsidize their citizens’ purchase of Russian gas on the world market. The idiots in the West couldn’t have written a better script for Putin’s cashing in, all paid for by chumps like you and me.
Did you see that? Truss is going to borrow 150 billion pounds to subsidize British consumer payments to Putin and other exporters. You can’t make this up. And even crazier, guys like you cheering the boobs in Brussels on.
The US is a major winner from selling oil and nat gas.
You should be celebrating as an American.
“Truss is going to borrow 150 billion pounds to subsidize British consumer payments to Putin and other exporters.”
Russian energy imports are already banned into the UK. None of that money will go to Putin.
So atrocious has been Putin’s crime spree, that the wealthy Nations of the World are willing to pay a high price to defeat that aggression.
15 of Russia’s biggest trade partners last year (7 of the top ten), accounting for over 2/3rds of last year’s total imports and exports, are now levying sanctions on Russia.
It is understood that the total costs to transition off of Russian energy, and support Ukriane, will be hundreds of billions of euros - approaching a trillion. That includes these subsidies to European consumers and industries.
Bottom Line: Those costs have been approved and financed by the Governments of the West (including Japan, Korea and Australia).
Pro Tip: There must have been a solid case for effectiveness, to get a trillion dollar bill authorized.