Reuters reports:
As Western shipping and maritime services firms steer clear of Russian oil to avoid falling foul of sanctions or harming their reputations, new companies have leapt into the void, and they’re snapping up old tankers that might normally be scrapped….
It also banned companies and individuals in the bloc from providing financing, brokerage, shipping and insurance services to ship Russian oil elsewhere if the crude was bought above a price cap of $60 a barrel that came into effect on Monday.
However, the Financial Times’ report differs, saying that “there are no sanctions on Russian gas, owing to its importance to some European nations.’”
One fact is irrefutable: the coming winter combined with the globalist green agenda has triggered desperation in EU countries, who not too long ago made a full show of bravado regarding sanctions against Russia.
In fact, in October, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to a Putin plan to become Russian gas hub for the EU.
Whatever the case is about EU’s gas crisis and its need for Russian oil one way or another, Russia’s war against Ukraine has not caused Russia any suffering due to sanctions. In an NPR article “Why The Sanctions Against Russia Aren’t Working.”:
Russia’s export income has risen by more than 40% to roughly $120 billion year-to-date because of higher prices, and is likely to stay that high through the end of the year. The largest contribution to this comes from natural gas, which is still in high demand throughout Europe.
The bottom line: the green agenda is disastrous for the West. Globalists who push this hoax are finding out the hard way what it means to be completely energy dependent on foreign countries that do not share their interests.
“Europe’s imports of Russian seaborne gas jump to record high,” by Shotaro Tani, Financial Times, November 28, 2022:
Europe is importing a record amount of seaborne Russian gas, highlighting how the region has not completely shaken off its dependence on the country for the crucial fuel even as flows through pipelines have all but stopped.
Imports of Russian liquefied natural gas, which is typically transported on big tankers, rose more than 40 per cent between January and October this year, compared with the same period in 2021, highlighting the difficulty for Europe in weaning itself off gas from Moscow despite Brussels’ attempts to shift away from Russian sources.
Russian LNG made up 16 per cent of European seaborne imports during the period. While the total volume of 17.8 billion cubic metres represented a fraction of the 62.1 bcm pipeline gas flows during this time, it nevertheless leaves Europe exposed to Vladimir Putin’s weaponisation of energy.
One day, Putin could wake up and say, ‘we’ll stop sending LNG to Europe’, forcing the region to buy from an even more expensive spot market,” said Anne-Sophie Corbeau, global research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.
Russia could also divert the cargoes to LNG-starved countries such as Bangladesh and Pakistan at cheap prices to “achieve political gains” and “put pressure on Europeans”, she added. “It’s very important not to forget that a lot of countries are suffering, because they cannot afford LNG.”
There are no sanctions on Russian gas, owing to its importance to some European nations’ energy security. The Kremlin has taken advantage by gradually reducing the flow through pipelines after the invasion of Ukraine, boosting prices and fuelling a cost of living crisis across the continent….
Alkflaeda says
Whatever Mr Putin might or might not do, the idea of an increasingly militant Islamic Turkey being in a position to hold European countries to ransom is very worrying.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
True. Turkey is actually far more dangerous than Iran to stability in the region, and has been for a while now. In fact, their NATO membership notwithstanding, they are our #2 de-facto adversary after China. Russia doesn’t even come close, as they’re showing in Ukraine
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Not just that, Russia has rejected any caps on gas prices. In other words, thanks to US shutting down Keystone, ANWR and other fracking and drilling projects, we’ve just handed over that market to both Russia and Saudi Arabia, as well as other rogue states like Qatar, while plunging ourselves into a recession
Essentially, far from sanctions, Russia pretty much has a pretty big market – the world minus the US (although I’ve heard things to the contrary). They’ve not started going to India for all the things they have shortages in, and India, which doesn’t want a trade deficit w/ them, is happy to oblige. All that these sanctions have done has been to deliver Russia to China on a platter, and sever Western businesses from Russian cash, which is abundant, again due to us shutting down our own energy production
somehistory says
OT
“A Florida teacher was fired after a video appeared to show her interrupting and disrespecting Muslim students praying, says report”
Story by ashoaib@insider.com (Alia Shoaib)
“A viral TikTok video appears to show a teacher in Florida interrupting Muslim students while they are praying.
She can be heard saying: “I believe in Jesus, so I’m interrupting the floor.”
The school in Pembroke Pines said that the teacher no longer works at the school, say reports.”
Related video: Viral: Muslim student tears into Manipal Univ teacher for calling him terrorist; ‘Not funny’ (Hindustan Times)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/a-florida-teacher-was-fired-after-a-video-appeared-to-show-her-interrupting-and-disrespecting-muslim-students-praying-says-report/ar
they were in her office.
GreekEmpress says
I don’t think my first comment went through—
Anyway, if anybody hears anything more about the case involving the Florida teacher, please let me know here on JW.
Thanks.
somehistory says
UPI News
“Florida teacher fired after allegedly accusing praying Muslim students of performing ‘magic’”
Story by Adam Schrader •
“The teacher, who was not identified, was caught on a video reviewed by UPI that went viral on TikTok disrupting three praying students as one of them recited “Surah At-Tin” from the Quran.
The incident occurred at Franklin Academy, which has locations in Broward and Palm Beach counties, and was first reported by NBC News.
“Hold on, this my office and y’all doing all this magic,” the teacher says in the video as the students continue to pray. “I don’t know what’s going on over here. I believe in Jesus so I’m interrupting the floor, and why you in my office?””
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/florida-teacher-fired-after-allegedly-accusing-praying-muslim-students-of-performing-magic/ar-AA158E0E
they were in her office to make it mozlum dominated…territory claimed for satan…and the video was to catch the teacher objecting
Alkflaeda says
I remember reading that if a verse of the Qur’an is read in a building, that building is deemed to belong to Islam. Should give people pause for thought when they hold inter-faith services in churches….not that the Qur’an stands a chance against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but it does suggest a less-than-benign motive for participation in said services….
somehistory says
that’s how mozlums see it….if they read from the unholy book of filth, or say words of what’s going to happen to their “prey,” or do some shouting of victory to their fake ‘god,’ in the name of their false “prophet,”…the building now belongs to them.
As Mr. Raymond Ibrahim has written, each barracks is a fort for their soldiers who have made forward inroads into the enemy territory.
Nothing with them is benign, friendly, or in any way meant to get along in peace.
Fitna says
It just shocks me that our leaders are truly this stupid and incompetent. How do you get a leadership role and know nothing about leading?
One can expect teenagers to make bone-headed decisions, then dealing with the consequences after. But how do you go from Climate Change alarmism, to cutting oil/gas but then have absolutely nothing to replace it with.
Are we going to fill our gas tanks with wishful thinking? Heat our home with ‘positive vibes’? These eff’in tards shouldn’t be anywhere near a seat of power.
Fine if you want to get off Russian oil/gas ok, but where are you going to buy it from? You can’t just cut off an essential resources, it’s like stopping electricity or fresh water because apparently we’re destroying the environment.
Have a sensible plan in place. Now ofc they’re scrambling like headless chicken trying to get new contracts.
It’s the same insanity when it came to the fake refugee/migrant invasion. You’re allowing them in, these unvetted terrorists, thugs, criminals that Muslims countries don’t want? Ok where will you house them? How will they work in an already tight job market?
You’re going to give them billions in free money, pay for their housing at expensive hotels on the taxpayers dime? This is a plan? I guess it is if you want to screw over your own people while helping hordes of invaders who are only here to exploit your country and your people.
Ofc the plebs pay for these disastrous policies, never the scumbags who are making it happen. Then again the plebs still keep voting for these jackholes so maybe they have it coming.
I guess 50 years from now Europe will look like Gaza, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia and all the other wonderful, bastions of art, freedom, culture, intellectual thought and modernity in the Islamic empire. /sarc
Devasur says
Yet the European countries cry when India buys oil from Russia. Europe still thinks it is in the colonial era.
Europe has no authority over India and Indians.