Posted on 10/03/2025 2:18:02 PM PDT by ransomnote
![]() |
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
One member of NATO has again started buying Russian energy products:
"Tupras, Türkiye's largest oil refiner, has resumed purchases of Russian Urals crude oil, trading sources said, marking a shift from its earlier halt on imports following strengthened U.S. sanctions.As one watched headlines, the fact that Europe, NATO member Turkey and these United States ALL are buying Russian products is most interesting, and not covered in most of the noisy news.According to three trading sources speaking to Reuters and shipping data reviewed once again by Reuters, Tupras restarted imports in April after Urals crude prices dropped to their lowest levels since 2023—comfortably below the G7 nations' price cap of $60 per barrel.
Source: Türkiye's largest oil refiner Tupras resumes Russian crude imports as prices fall below G7 cap Türkiye Today, April 17, 2025
Additional links:
Key Turkish Refinery Gets Back Into Russian Oil Oil Price, 16 April 2025
Exclusive: Top Turkish refiner Tupras resumes buying Russian Urals crude, sources say Reuters, 16 April 2025
Turkey Resumes Oil Imports from Russia Amid Sanctions Finway, Ukraine, 18 April 2025
If NATO member Turkey is doing as it is, then NATO by degree is not the homogeneous entity it has been said to be recently. Or, viewing the news detailed above, one could say a part of NATO is "violating EU sanctions" or US sanctions....
Russia was never going to be allowed into NATO, that silliness needs to be dropped.
Thanks for posting the transcript. I had posted you tube versions, none of the Ukie war cheerleaders would listen to it.
…But they will not read the transcript either. If they did, they would realize Vlad is the only adult in the room.
Trolls gotta troll! ;)
He "suicides" his own people.
He is evil.
He is aligned with evil and evil ideologies (Islam).
Russia is not and never will be an ally of the United States.
Russia will never be 'great again' since they were never ever great. Any honest Russian will tell you that.
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled WATCH: Putin Full Speech at Valdai Forum in Sochi | Gaza, Ukraine & EU Relations | AC15 (TRANSCRIPT and linked video), delta7 wrote: Thanks for posting the transcript. I had posted you tube versions, none of the Ukie war cheerleaders would listen to it.
…But they will not read the transcript either. If they did, they would realize Vlad is the only adult in the room.
Well, it's important to them that we never post what he says. We're only supposed to read NATO and Leftist interpretations!
The European leaders who jail those who waive the flag or insult immigrants aren’t a problem????
I was just in Turkey and I’d rather live there for 100 years than 3 weeks in Paris or London.
Why don’t you mention all of the NATO nations that just got in bed with the Palestinian state through recognition??
Isn’t that list very long, including Russia and Turkey?
“The State of Palestine is recognised as a sovereign nation by 157 UN member states”
It is strange how some old accounts stopped posting fir years and then revived either in 2014 or in 2022
Putin’s aim is Make Muscowy a Tsarist empire again, and make me rich.
He has done that fir tge 26 years of his dictatorship
You were in Turkey eh...
I’ll never be able to say it
“Russia was never going to be allowed into NATO, that silliness needs to be dropped.”
Russia, under Putin, was never going to satisfy political requirements to be part of NATO. Had Putin not taken over and true multiparty democracy opened up in Russia, things might have been different.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.