Some here were promoting the India-Russia deal for Russia to sell oil to India “at a discount” and I have been saying it was more geopolitical theater, mostly on India’s part (demonstrting it’s historic geopolitical “neutrality”) than a very material deal.
I’m not sure if they were necessarily promoting it, but I also wonder just how much oil India, China, and all of these countries around the world are actually buying and if they are low-balling it.
And shame on Europe still buying Russian oil. They need to end all buying immediately.
Sanctions equal discounts to whatever country ignores them.
Several countries were having a grand time after the Bush’s No. 1 Persian Gulf for example (France/Germany etc... cough, cough).
It’s a power grab (Manipulating conditions from within), closer you are to the central government, the more you get “paid”. Several individuals who reside in India are just taking the advantage over Putin’s stupidity/frustration.
It’s a world-wide Kabuki Theater going on and the people who just want to live a normal life are getting screwed over, regardless if you are for or against the current “thing”.