[Engraved-on-His-hands]

But I was told that Zelensky is the one who doesn’t want peace! What is one to believe?

I think that it is all Ukraine’s fault. After all, after Russia invaded Ukraine, the warmongering Ukrainians refused to surrender their country like nice little sheeple. How was Russia to know that their “Special Military Operation” would take more than two weeks?

[marcusmaximus]

The difficulty in understanding the Russian is that we do not take cognizance of the fact that he is not a European, but an Asiatic, and therefore thinks deviously. We can no more understand a Russian than a Chinaman or a Japanese, and from what I have seen of them, I have no particular desire to understand them, except to ascertain how much lead or iron it takes to kill them. In addition to his other Asiatic characteristics, the Russian have no regard for human life and is an all out son of bitch, barbarian, and chronic drunk. George S. Patton

[Owen]

I just laid out the oil numbers elsewhere and won’t again here.

Probably worth asking what is an “illegal oil sale”? because if the intent is to label all 7.4 million bpd of Russia’s export illegal, then I can outright assure them that 70% of that is not even on ships, shadow or otherwise. It’s Asian pipelines via Transneft.

Enormous oil totals flow by pipeline to China and India, and even more is intermixed in Khazahkstan with Kazakh oil and Azerbaijani oil, and then is pipelined . . . also to China’s voracious 16.5 million bpd consumption.