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/
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/
https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/eu-wants-to-cut-russian-oil-price-cap-to-45-in-latest-sanctions-package/
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?
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
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.
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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.
...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.
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.
What were you saying about price of oil and "new" maximum set? Your posts don't age well even just after few days
US Opposes European Push to Lower G-7 Price Cap on Russian Oil -Bloomberg well, now we know why. But EU should totally shoot itself in a foot and do it one sided, just in case Iran and Yemen close Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb straits to make sure that Europe will be completely fucked.
We see that the old cliche that if you want to draw attention away from something, just start a war in the middle east, holds as true as ever. Now we see where air defenses were rerouted to, think we all know who'll take priority in air defense deliveries between Ukraine and Israel. I'd say risks for Taiwan just went up exponentially as there's just not enough air defense to go around.