Sanctions on Russian oil have failed. Were they ever meant to succeed?
Sanctions on Russian oil have failed. Were they ever meant to succeed?
Western sanctions imposed a year ago have hardly dented Russia’s ability to wage war.
TL;DR: it's because China and India didn't join in, and market prices gonna equilibrium.
All of the sanctions and European energy security were banked on the idea that Russian frontlines would collapse under the super Nato equipped Ukrainian counterattack and then there would be a regime change in Moscow and gas would flow again. Now Ukraine is on the backfoot, there is no change in Moscow and Russia oil still flows to Europe, but only through intermediaries and loopholes, because there really never was an short to medium term alternative for it in the way the global oil market is structured. The sanctions were actual serious sanctions and their architects thought that they would actually work, but the decisions were made on faulty assumptions of effectiveness of sanctions and the structure of Russia economy.
Sadly there were not very well equipped units in first place or there weren't many of them, because arms industry wants a perpetual war, not a quick victory. Looks like the oil faction doesn't know what arms industry faction does. Or they were simply delusional.
Super NATO equipped Ukrainians is funny, because for the most part they've always been under equipped. If NATO hadn't been so reserved and gave Ukraine a blank check from the get go they would have stomped Russia. Still no F-16s, Hungary and Republicans are stonewalling efforts being authoritarian sympathizers, and now Ukrainians are starting to feel ammo and manpower shortages.
Very true
I've read elsewhere that it was down 41%, and also, you have to take any numbers that Russia publishes with a big grain of salt these days, as they are hiding most fundamental economic data from the world and the best way to get it is from other sources that try to recreate it from other data.
Ukraine has paid the price for the inter-imperialist struggle between the US and Europe
What was the conflict between the US and Europe?
Another unpopular opinion here, glad it's not flooded by "I support the current thing" idiots like Reddit
Ukraine should be erased from the map, they just made everything more expensive.
Unpopular opinion but it is what it is, I'm going to be downvoted by boot lickers 👢😋
Better to be a "boot licker" than someone valuing a tiny bit of his money more than millions of lives.
"Thought process", sure sure.
I don't understand your thought process here. Not meaning to be obtuse, but how did Ukraine do this? And, honestly, sorry to ask, but what does erased from the map mean? I get that it's a complicated situation, but how on earth should it all be resolved in a way that would leave everything better, or at least not long-term worse? Thanks in advance for your insights.
Thought process is this
Russia Bot -> Pro Russia/Anti Ukraine post
Well, their account is mere hours old and their only comments have been the two in this thread clearly sucking Putin's dick and one elsewhere saying that they reported somebody to the FBI for hosting LGBTQ content, but not before calling said person a pedo for good measure. So I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to share anything intelligent that you could learn anything from. It's probably just a middle aged toddler having a temper tantrum because his kids won't visit him for Christmas ever since the Christmas that he talked about storming the Capitol in a week and a half. That may seem like a hell of a conclusion to jump to, but 1/3 of their comments is threatening to report somebody to the FBI, so I'm assuming that they think that pretty much everybody gets reported to the FBI and they're accidentally confessing to doing real domestic terrorism.
After all, it's not been proven that they aren't a domestic terrorist. Maybe they should get investigated just to be on the safe side...