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Quote from: paxmao on June 11, 2025, 11:21:19 AM

Record rate... meaning 100 meters a week instead of 200....

You see, there are many cherries out there, let me get you some sour ones:

https://talkbusiness.net/2025/06/eia-crude-oil-prices-to-fall-as-global-inventories-rise/

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The production reached a record high of 13.5 million barrels per day in the second quarter of 2025. The production is projected to fall through the end of 2026 as oil producers respond to lower prices.

I guess Ruzzia will have to sell something else to finance the war. Maybe they should be looking into Ruzzia Porn as alternative to oil?

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/european-commission-unveils-18th-package-russia-sanctions-aimed-energy-military-2025-06-10/

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EU's new Russia sanctions to target energy sector and banks

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/eu-wants-to-cut-russian-oil-price-cap-to-45-in-latest-sanctions-package/

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EU wants to cut Russian oil price cap to $45 in latest sanctions package
EU officials hope to strike

And what do you think? There may be a link here with the recruiting capabilities and the oil prices. Perhaps Ruzzia will close the schools to pay for the military?

Yes, sanction package number 138,245 after three+ years will surely definitely work this time, totally, just hang in there! Got any more hope to sell? What about the next sanction package, I'm sure it'll work even better, and then the next, and then the one after that... Do you think there are any 18yr old Ukrainians that would believe that, to willingly go to busification? As already discussed, each iteration of sanctions hurt Russia less than the previous one, and Europe more and more by definition. All the low hanging fruits have already been collected.

Screw the fundamentals that China cannot let Russia fail financially, and India cannot let China have access to cheap resources from Russia without India getting the same, right?

See... conviniently ignoring the price of oil and the new maximum set. Mmm... delicious cherries...

I think that Ukrainias who want to keep being Ukrainians instead of suffering the usual filtration, cultural assimilation, gulag punishments and then being force to serve in the Ruzzian army in their next war may decide that it is better to fight now instead of being force to fight anyway for Ruzzians instead of for themselves. But I guess your question could be easily solved by looking at the fact that the Ukrainian army is still fighting Ruzzia.

China can perfectly let PUTIN fall and in fact it would probably be to their benefit to have someone more friendly and with less imperialistic needs.

*yawn* this is not the first oil ceiling, we've been through this before, remember how well that worked the first time, that now they need another ceiling? But I'm sure you'll tell us how this time is totally different and that this one will definitely 100% work right? And then how the next ceiling will work even better, if there will still be any manpower left in Ukraine by then.

Quote from: DaRude on September 27, 2023, 03:25:42 AM

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Quote from: https://www.ft.com/content/cad37c16-9cbd-473c-aa2f-102c21393d2e

Russia dodges G7 price cap sanctions on most of its oil exports

Russia has succeeded in avoiding G7 sanctions on most of its oil exports, a shift in trade flows that will boost the Kremlin’s revenues as crude rises towards $100 a barrel.

Almost three-quarters of all seaborne Russian crude flows travelled without western insurance in August, a lever used to enforce the G7’s $60-a-barrel oil price cap, according to an analysis of shipping and insurance records by the Financial Times.

That is up from about 50 per cent this spring, according to data from freight analytics company Kpler and insurance companies. The rise implies that Moscow is becoming more adept at circumventing the cap, allowing it to sell more of its oil at prices closer to international market rates.

The Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) has estimated that the steady increase in crude prices since July, combined with Russia’s success in reducing the discount on its own oil, means that the country’s oil revenues are likely to be at least $15bn higher for 2023 than they would have been.

The shift is a double blow for western efforts to restrict Russia’s revenues from oil sales — which make up the biggest part of the Kremlin’s budget — following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Not only is a higher proportion of Russian oil being sold outside the cap, but Moscow’s increasing independence as a seller has coincided with a strong rally in oil prices, which topped $95 a barrel for the first time in 13 months this week.

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Ukrainians were totally fine in 2013, it's after the cookies arrived, that their lives turned into living hell, and the ones who sent the cookies now want Ukrainians to fight it out a bit more.

Again going for improbable to sell hope, sure i guess technically China can let Putin fall (just as the mouse can technically win against the cat), China can also be waiting for a perfect timing to take back Taiwan (cat can win against the mouse), now we all know which one is more likely.

Ukraine was perfectly fine until the "little green men" took Crimean and Putin sent two army corps into the Donbas - never recognised.

As you can see, there is a fully funtional army, evolving every day in lethality and cause much more harm to Ruzzia's economy than ever - that does not happen because anyone is giving them "cookies".

You are obsesed with foreign intervention in Ukraine, while at the same time do not recognise Ruzzian influence as being actually foreign interference. Again and as usual... double standards, imperialism, "god-given" right to Ruzzia, the logic of imposing by force... THAT is why there's a war in Ukraine.

Here, have this, you need it.

Now, it seems that Ukraine was successful in re-taking bits of Summy that had been occupied. Who knows, maybe they decide that it is safer to go a bit into Ruzzia again, just for precaution you know.

Nice try, only little green men were always in Crimea and in 2013 no one cared and everything was just fine in Ukraine and EU was prospering. Now care to guess again what desert started this hell for Ukrainians?

Yes great idea, propagandists need another PR victory so start building up pressure on UA military to pull troops from Dnipropetrovsk and start another great suicide military operation into Russia for PR, you know because the last one turned out so great. Why did you stop publishing the maps of the last one again?

Can you point to where those bits that UA is retaking in Summy are on the map? Because i'm having trouble finding them.

Billions of dollars, all of NATO's resources and intelligence, and all Ukraine has to show for it is look how slow we're loosing? Solid plan. Russian forces ate into more Ukrainian territory in May than in almost any month since the end of 2022 -WSJ

By definition both are foreign interference, it's just Ukrainians were mislead to believe that one is much better and comes with tasty cookies, now Ukrainians find out that the cookies must be paid for in blood.

Quote from: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/06/11/7516718/

German Chancellor rejects Social Democratic Party's calls for restoring relations with Russia
Speaking at a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday, Merz responded to calls from certain SPD figures for diplomatic rapprochement with Russia and an end to Germany’s arms policy. He emphasised that the coalition remains united on these matters.
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A document titled "Manifesto," signed by over 100 SPD-associated figures, has sparked significant controversy in Germany. It advocates for a shift in security and defence policy, including negotiations with Russia and halting the deployment of new US medium-range missiles in Germany.

So lets see who in Germany wants to restore relations with Russia. First AfD on the left with about 23%, then BSW on the right with 4%, and now cracks in SPD center with 15%

Quote from: https://www.state.gov/releases/2025/06/russia-national-day/

On behalf of the American people, I want to congratulate the Russian people on Russia Day.

The United States remains committed to supporting the Russian people as they continue to build on their aspirations for a brighter future. We also take this opportunity to reaffirm the United States’ desire for constructive engagement with the Russian Federation to bring about a durable peace between Russia and Ukraine. It is our hope that peace will foster more mutually beneficial relations between our countries.
-Marco Rubio, Secretary of State

How nice of him