Posted on 01/29/2023 5:35:40 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
The only ones getting crushed by sanctions on Russia are the virtue signaling coalition against Russia.
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/
Russia, to this day, still supplies the USA with 30% of the enriched nuclear fuel needed for US nuclear reactors.
Some US utilities are even lobbying the US Congress to allow them to increase the quota allowed from Russia, as it can’t be replaced for at least several years.
“The only ones getting crushed by sanctions on Russia are the virtue signaling coalition against Russia.”
It’s tough to be a Neocon Apologist when you see charts like the one you posted (gas cost less than $3.00 per gallon in Russia versus $7 to $9 per gallon in virtually all of Europe)...but they’ll come up with some excuse such as “How many mouths does a gallon of gas feed” (I guess they’ll claim that tractors are electric now, LOL).
It is all of old buys. Russia produces her own microcontrollers already.
Yea, that’s the funny thing. We keep hearing how Russia is getting ‘crushed’ in the economic war, yet somehow there aren’t any reports of things like inflation, shortages, hunger, homelessness, the price of eggs, etc. ==
Yes you noticed it well. Here you may see how Russia goes on under sanctions.
They can make it harder and slow it down and that is having effects. Russia energy sector is contracting this year, no matter what anyone says to the contrary.===
No it is not. Simply selling to western countries switched to the middlemen. And also Russia began to sell a lot of gas and diesel instead of crude oil.
So Russia turns to process her natresouces which she had been selling to Europe. And in Europe the plants who before processed Russian resource began to close.
For example BASF closes her fertilizer plants.
https://fortune.com/2022/10/25/basf-russia-gas-ukraine-europe-energy-crisis/
“enriched nuclear fuel needed for US nuclear reactors.”
You may appreciate this article:
I found both of these 2 items particularly interesting:
1- “Also, a new laser enrichment technology has been developed that promises even lower costs and a greater ability to physically substitute enrichment for uranium. In addition, during this time the Fukushima reactor accident occurred, resulting in the shutdown of a number of reactors and slower nuclear power growth, creating an environment for an even greater substitution of enrichment and uranium due to the relative economics of each and an abundance of excess enrichment capacity.
... Laser enrichment has even greater efficiency than centrifuge, able to operate at lower tails assays and thus requiring even less uranium to make a given quantity of enriched uranium.6 Because of its enhanced abilities, laser enrichment can more efficiently process tails material as well. In this regard, in 2013 the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected a non-binding proposal by Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) to construct a tails enrichment facility using the SILEX technology at the DOE site in Paducah, Kentucky. DOE currently has about 114,000 MTU of high-assay tails material. Processing these at the proposed tails enrichment plant would result in another 5 million pounds U3O8 of natural uranium equivalent being produced on an annual basis, similar to the output of the Angarsk plant. However, due to poor economics related to depressed uranium prices, which ironically was in large measure due to enrichment supplanting the need for uranium, the GLE venture is not proceeding at this point.”
2-Policy Implications topic
Enrichment’s Critical Role in Nuclear Fuel Supplies
By Jeff Combs and Y. Lydia Hsieh Ph.D.|January 15th, 2021|Research|0 Comments
https://atompeace.org/enrichments-critical-role-in-nuclear-fuel-supplies/
Both Obama and Biden want to end any kind of nuclear energy.
Just who benefits from this? Not America!
According to Russia, This winter the US, Germany, and the rest of Europe were supposed to freeze up and surrender. Instead it was Russian conscripts in open fields without winter uniforms and basic field gear that froze to death. So much for that plan.
Russia is having to make deep cuts in oil production as its projected revenues nose dive. Putin is going to run low on money to fund the war no matter how many left over Soviet weapons and untrained conscripts he orders into the fight.
RUSSIAN Revenue Destroyed by Oil Price Cap & Bans as Russia Loses Over $1 Billion Revenue Per Week .
Americans Fall Behind on Car Payments at Higher Rate Than in 2009
Automobile repossessions are climbing as inflation forces struggling consumers to make tough choices.
I thought Putin was opposed to Nazism. Here he’s dealing with a genocidal, Nazi state. Maybe they’ll even do to him what Hitler did to Stalin. They do want Siberia back.
Putin merely created a nazi False-flag operation calculated to generate sympathy for invading and attacking Ukraine.
What a (non)surprise. Anything that Biden is involved with turns out be be corrupt.
Given that most Russian weapons depend upon Western technology and are filled with it, this might help them keep the war going for longer.
“Anything that Biden is involved with turns out be be corrupt.”
Total agreement
“We keep hearing how Russia is getting ‘crushed’ in the economic war, yet somehow there aren’t any reports of things like inflation, shortages, hunger, homelessness, the price of eggs, etc.”
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vQgx28vNsg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktX8SR55siM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RoxVKE5Asc
Here’s the effect of inflation on real grocery prices:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QKbas1wfBE
Why sanctions against Russia aren’t working — yet
“But Russia has not been brought to its knees. Far from it: Forecasters say Russian GDP for 2022 will likely fall, but only about 3.3−3.4%. Inflation, meanwhile, will likely end the year at roughly 12%: bad, but not close to as painful as predicted. And foreign direct investment? Estimates say it will fall by a mere 1%.”
“Sanctions did a good job initially of restricting Russian access to key imports, such as parts for manufacturing. Still, despite the initial shock, Russia pivoted quickly, and began importing more goods from nations like China, Belarus and Turkey, which are not participating in the sanctions regime. In short, when it comes to imports of key materials, Russia has been shut out of a number of markets, but it has since found new markets to meet many of its needs.”
“Sanctions on Russian exports have been even less successful. Many countries have stopped buying certain goods from Russia, but the flow of key commodities continues largely unabated.”
This shrinkage in imports and swelling of exports means that Russia’s trade balance looks extremely healthy. “
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