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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.

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.

What do I think...that your post is the usual cherry-picking not only the news, but also the effects of the news.

The re-routed air defences were anti-drone missiles, but it's been said that some artillery shellls are too and it would not suprise me that some other stuff is re-routed. That is bad for Ukraine.

However, Iran has been handing all short of war material to Ruzzia. But... now they have a war of their own. SO, Iran, who is a major supplier of Shaheeds, components and other stuff to Ruzzia seems like needing to use all they have and probably all they can produce to use in a war with Israel.

See, that is a balanced approach - cherryless approach.

And now... I would like to introduce you to Ukraine locally produce balistic missile. You will know more about as it begins to hit where it hurts. Speaking of which, another chemical plant related to oil industries has been "sanctioned". I reckon this type of "sanction" is much quicker and effective than the European ones.

https://united24media.com/latest-news/bigger-than-atacms-ukraines-cutting-edge-ballistic-missile-reportedly-enters-combat-use-9013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Os3TzJrrY

See? THIS is when you do not have enough air defence for the size of your country.

You claim that Russia is barely making any progress, i provide WSJ article saying that Russia progressed in May the fastest since 2022, you say i pick cherries.

You claim "There may be a link here with the recruiting capabilities and the oil prices." and "See... conviniently ignoring the price of oil and the new maximum set. Mmm... delicious cherries..." i provide Bloomberg article saying that ceiling is not set and that US is against it, and you ignore it.

You claim "Ukraine was perfectly fine until the "little green men" took Crimean" I retort, saying that it's a lie and that Russia always had troops in Crimea well before 2014 and everyone coexisted just fine "The treaty allowed Russia to station a limited number of troops in Crimea, 25,000 maximum."

You talk about foreign intervention in Ukraine, but refuse to admit that US third highest politician literally giving out cookies and supporting coup d'etat of a democratically elected leader with less than a year before the end of his term, and saying Fuck the EU, is a textbook example of foreign intervention.

You claim Ukraine was successful in re-taking bits of Summy i provide a map from the western source, that you yourself used when Ukraine was suiciding itself in Kursk, asking to point out where this re-taking is happening, which you totally ignore.

And in the latest post you try to compare the weapons Iran was sending to Ukraine with the weapons US was sending to Ukraine? As if they canceling each other out calling it a "balanced approach - cherryless approach"

Then you talk about another miracle wunderwaffe "locally produce balistic missile" which I'm guessing Ukraine has to even import "Made in Ukraine" sticker for because it can't even make that itself. But once the sticker "Made in Ukraine" is applied to the missile thats what makes the whole missile "locally produced".

But hey, don't give up, keep on calling things cherrypicking and providing low effort word pasta/bot responses in hopes of finding more younger souls to send to the front lines, despite seeing pretty well that the outcome has already been decided, and now it just needs to be sold to the people