Posted on 04/22/2026 8:49:00 AM PDT by delta7
Russia is set to suspend oil transit from Kazakhstan to Germany through the Druzhba pipeline on May 1, 2026, amid escalating geopolitical tensions over the Ukraine conflict.
Summary Industry sources report that Russia will block Kazakh oil exports destined for German refineries, specifically targeting the northern leg of the Druzhba network. This move disrupts a critical alternative supply route Germany established to reduce dependence on Russian crude. The decision follows a period of frayed political relations and represents a significant escalation in the use of energy infrastructure as a geopolitical lever. Market participants are now bracing for supply tightening at major German refineries like PCK Schwedt. 📈 Tailwinds Increased demand for alternative maritime oil transport services and tanker rates as Germany seeks non-pipeline imports. Potential price support for Brent crude and regional benchmarks due to sudden supply disruptions in Central Europe. Accelerated investment in European energy independence and renewable infrastructure projects. 📉 Headwinds Higher operational costs for German refineries forced to source more expensive seaborne crude via Rostock or Gdansk. Increased energy price volatility in the Eurozone, potentially weighing on industrial manufacturing margins. Geopolitical risk premium expansion for companies with significant infrastructure assets in transit-dependent regions.
Yes, Vlad still holds the cards.
“.....BREAKING: Russia just cut the pipeline. Kazakh oil transit to Germany through the Druzhba pipeline stops May 1. The northern branch. The one that feeds the PCK refinery in Schwedt. Germany thought it escaped Russian energy dependence....” Dasveedanya Germany.
Because Germany stacked the deck and dealt them.
And the idiots destroyed the power plants.....LOL.
Won’t be long befroe the Huns will be back living in caves....
IF the USA sells them anything, we need to levy a hefty “anti-NATO fee/tax” onto it...
But Germany won’t blame their buddies in Ukraine for blowing up Nord Stream.
Remember, the whole was started over Ukraine stealing natural gas. (And Nazi persecution of ethnic Russians).
“Well, well, well, when the West blew up the Nordstream pipeline, Germany manufacturing cratered.”
That was September 2022. Manufacturing was up over 10% in 2023.
That Dastardly Putin LOL!
Germany shutdown their entire fleet of 33 nuclear power plants, which included 17 main commercial reactors, the rest being prototypes and experimental reactors ... most of those reactors are currently being dismantled, and to date, germany has sent zero naval units to help police the strait of hormuz ...
cheap, copious and reliable energy supply, especially petroleum and natural gas, are the lifeblood of modern civilization ...
Donald Trump warned the germans that this was going to happen, and they literally laughed in his face and then literally destroyed their nuclear energy supply ...
therefore, i have zero sympathy to anything that happens in germany at this point: they deserve whatever they get ...
It will be as Putin called it, "The largest Muslim country in the world", where their young boys will become "dancing boys" to pleasure the Muslims and the young girls will also be sold in to sex slavery.
All your Russian blue eyed, blond haired children being sold into sex slavery.
This is Russia's future.
Sounds like the future of the whole Western Civ at the rate we are going...
At least they replaced their oil usage with windmills. How is that saving the earth going for you Europe?
1. Massive Economic Resession/depression in Germany
2. Followed by Massive Economic Resession/depression in Japan
3. Followed by 1. Massive Economic Resession/depression in the USA
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Interesting, Japan is currently the first country today most likely to collapse economically, the second is the EU ( Germany was the EU economic powerhouse), which is in major recession most likely to go into depression.
Do remember Europe was in a major depression before the US Great Depression. Be it a credit crisis, currency crisis or debt crisis, the US will not escape….but that could takes years.
Watch Japan’s woes.
Does this mean that Kazakhstan is a puppet government of Russia? How can they dictate who Kazakhstan sells oil to?
Oh well, German has a national policy on shutting down coal and nuclear power plants and going green. I wonder how their green future is going to work out for them.
They’ll soon be sitting around the fire in front of their cave dwellings dressed in their Neantheral-like furs trying to stay warn while reminising about the bad old days when they actually had candles for light.....LOL
Is that the same Druzhba pipeline that was knocked out months ago, and only resumed shipping oil, checks notes, TODAY?
Delta7 just makes things up hoping he can lure suckers dumb enough to give him their credit card numbers.
The book of Revelation talks about this.
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