Posted on 05/15/2023 7:52:18 PM PDT by ganeemead
Gigantic explosion in Khmelnitskiy may have been semi-nuclear
Russians seem to have detonated a major nato/hoho stockpile of DU ammo for the tank guns of the UK Challengers... The prevailing winds in the area are such that there is a real possibility that hohos and brits might have succeeded in poisoning Poland and Germany. Russians were just trying to protect themselves and could in no wise be blamed for any such consequences.
The people ‘fleecing the west’ are those reselling Russian oil at doubled or tripled prices in Europe. Putin is selling oil at totally reasonable prices to anybody who lacks ideological afflictions that would prevent them buying directly.
You’re not a libhater; you’re a nazi-supporting lib salivating at the thought of voting for the lib/neocon candidate (i.e. Pig-boy Biden) a second time.
If memory serves from the Iraq wars and I believe it does, there are two kinds of DU; one is harmless, the other isn’t.
If you say so.
As I have already said. All those munitions were intended to blow up at the end of the day anyways. Every bit of the contamination would have been somewhere.
Well, that certainly clears up the matter!
That certainly is helpful!
Hey, everybody! ganeemead half-remembers something he read in a Sunday Supplement, about 20 years ago, that he vaguely thinks means that there are actually TWO kinds of Depleted Uranium!
We can all relax, now! ganeemead has a handle on this now!
Regards,
Probably a spin on the Turkish fez for identification
Probably a spin on the Turkish fez for identification
How does someone who worships traditional America, who does not support pi$$ing away hundreds of billions on DC/Uke corruption, who says we have no business in an unprovoked proxy war against a nuclear armed country, who insists on following the NATO Charter, who has never said word one pro Russia or pro Putin, who refuses another neocon or woke pervo globalist misadventure a “Putin worshipper”? You guys really confuse me. Are you identifying as your usual bloody Bushite neocon or are you prancing around in your newfound woke pervo globalist stooge identity today?
So I will ask the same question again, we should just sit by while Putin invades and takes a sovereign country?
Okay, poland Latvia Estonia… that okay too?
Is it your opinion that Putin would stop after Ukraine? If Ukraine is not important then are you ready to go to a US shooting war over Poland?
NATI title ……
We will disagree I am sure but Putin needs to be stopped if for no other reason than to stop him from controlling all the resources
, but also as a sign to others like XI
and I will say this again if it comes to Bradley’s 155s and abrams against China the war is over, using weapons and weapon systems against their intended target soviets/ Russia is the right move, and Ukrainians defending their country and supporting them is the right move
Why? Because the DC oligarchs running this $hitshow are and have been getting filthier rich for nearly a decade now. What about the 25+ other peoples or countries around the world who need your corrupt world policeman’s attention? No money for your masters in them. Why weren’t you up in arms demanding your world policeman act in Crimea before? Why? Your media masters ignore, you ignore it. We were be responsible for the deaths of a million mostly innocent Arabs while we rampage looking for Saddam’s yellow cake 6000 miles away. We sure showed those Afghans what for because the Saudis attacked us 9/11. We sent 2 1/2 million men 10,000 miles, destroyed 3 countries, saw millions die, including 56,000 American boys, in an attempt to prevent the first domino from falling. That’s are perfectly justifiable, right? The Russians have the greatest offensive military behemoth the world has ever seen now sitting on their border, a days tank ride from Moscow, promising forced regime change. They can’t react as the 16th and final domino is falling today? That’s after they junked the Warsaw Pact after being lied to by NATO when promised “not one inch east of the German border”?! Your woke green pervo globalist puppeteers use your innate neocon warmongering to manipulate you. Stop letting them play you for a stooge. I’m guessing sometime in your life you flirted with America First. Think of your children or grandchildren. Is MIC, Uniparty corrupt billions really worth their lives?
No, the reason that Russian revenues are up is that their exports are being sold at much higher prices than they were prior to the invasion to the 90% of the world's population who are ignoring Western “sanctions”. But yes, Russian oil is still making it back to Western Europe. The woke leadership countries of Western Europe like Biden have few “ideological afflictions” and would sell their own grandmothers into slavery for a few bucks. They are buying Russian products through shell companies then shipping it through circuitous routes to hide the transactions. It is as simple as that.
Posting a random gif, the filename of which starts with Aug-05-2019..., is relevant to this thread how exactly?
Did the original post make much sense to you? It didn’t to me other than some Russian ammo blowing up. The “random gif” is a Russian ammo dump that blew up in 2019, so I imagine that the explosion that just recently happened might be similar.
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/killed-massive-ammunition-dump-blast-siberia-64790589
You are nuts if you watched 1:40 hours of that shithook’s video. That you posted.
Don’t be ridiculous. Russian oil is still selling cheap on the world markets. Russian oil aka Urals oil is $55 today. Brent oil is $75 while WTI is $70
https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/67
The price difference you mention is meaningless and does not represent reality. "The price of the Urals oil price is increasingly meaningless. And that is a problem, as the two oil price schemes are tied to the Urals FOB (free on board) price of oil and so give the Kremlin a way to export its oil at much higher prices without breaking the oil price cap ceiling of $60. A recent study showed that Russian oil companies are actually getting over $80 per barrel in cash for a barrel, despite the fact that the FOB Urals price is under $50." Take a look at the following article. Once again Putin is playing the West like a fiddle.
Officially, Russian oil revenues were up 28 percent in 2022 as compared to 2021. From February 24, 2022 to May 10, 2023 they made $386 Billion dollars from their energy exports. Their leading export destinations were China and Germany. That is from:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1350807/russia-fossil-fuel-export-revenue-by-type/
Like everything else relating to this conflict the data is being actively manipulated for propaganda purposes. Countries representing 90% of the world's population are completely ignoring Western Sanctions and Western countries such as Germany are actually ignoring them as well. This entire fiasco is a bad joke. Revenue from energy exports were up in 2022 compared to 2021. And they are up even more in 2023 compared to 2022.
Putin is laughing all the way to the bank.
Good article and just might be true. About the Urals oil price vs the real price, Russian oil companies are getting
You are a better man than I am for considering the possibility.
“You are a better man than I am for considering the possibility.”
Not really but.....Some matters I know for sure. Some I do not. Your author writes well so seems to know what he is talking about. His main point is that Russian oil companies are selling little oil on the spot market that has Urals oil at $50. That they are selling most Russian oil in other ways and at WTI type prices.
So what prices are China and India buying Rus oil at? For sure at very discounted prices.
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