patrick.net

https://thehill.com/policy/international/europe/599018-lithuania-ireland-push-eu-to-step-up-sanctions-on-russian-oil?source=patrick.net


The foreign ministers of Lithuania and Ireland on Monday pushed the European Union to deepen its sanctions on Russia’s oil supply.

The EU has already placed sanctions on Russia, including freezing the assets of its central bank, but it has not yet targeted Russia’s energy sector, Reuters reported.

“Looking at the extent of the destruction in Ukraine right now, it's very hard to make the case that we shouldn't be moving in on the energy sector, particularly oil and coal,” said Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney at the beginning of EU talks in Brussels, Belgium, this week.


The EU receives 40 percent of its gas supply from Russia, but some EU nations still believe sanctions must be imposed as a consequence of Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine, with the siege of Mariupol ratcheting up the pressure.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called the strikes on the Ukrainian city “a massive war crime,” clarifying the bloc’s opposition to aggressive moves by Russia.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said it was “unavoidable” that the EU discusses targeting Russia’s energy sector.

Kremlin: Russian oil embargo would squeeze Europe, not US
US-Saudi tensions complicate push for more oil
“And we can definitely talk about oil because it is the biggest revenue to Russia's budget,” Landsbergis added.

Countries such as Germany and Italy, which are more dependent on Russian gas than Baltic states like Lithuania, are taking a more cautious approach to sanctions on Russia’s energy sector, especially as Russian leadership has threatened to close a gas pipeline to Europe in response to these controversial moves.

Western countries including the U.S. and U.K. have already sanctioned Russian oil.

komputodo says

Eric Holder says

Good. Let's hope the whole covfefe usher the long-overdue decoupling from that Commie shithole.

What the hell does S.F. have to do with all this?

The Russian consulate is gone but China's is still in SF.

I got an interesting lesson from Russia here. They were prepared for sanctions, they sanction proofed their economy (I read about that in many publications) so these things aren't going to blindside them. A lesson for all of us here is build a parallel economy so big tech and big whatever faggots can't cancel you or do anything to you. If you don't need them and have alternatives, they have no power. McDonalds cancelled Russia, Russia was prepared, they just reopened them as some Russian brand and flipped logo to the side too to rub it in.

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Parallel Economy is the way forward.

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says

I got an interesting lesson from Russia here. They were prepared for sanctions, they sanction proofed their economy

Have they really? How do you know?

Eric Holder says

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says

I got an interesting lesson from Russia here. They were prepared for sanctions, they sanction proofed their economy

Have they really? How do you know?

I read it on the news, that any impact isn't going to affect them much, as they prepared and were expecting it. Basically, they aren't stupid.

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says

Eric Holder says

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says

I got an interesting lesson from Russia here. They were prepared for sanctions, they sanction proofed their economy

Have they really? How do you know?

I read it on the news, that any impact isn't going to affect them much, as they prepared and were expecting it. Basically, they aren't stupid.

Words are just that, words. In reality, even their fucking personal yahts are being arrested abroad, not to mention hundreds of billions in foreign reserves. Doesn't look not stupid at all. They obviously miscalculated.

GIBRALTAR (Reuters) - A luxurious super-yacht linked to the owner of Russia’s largest steel pipe maker, who is currently under British and European Union sanctions, docked in Gibraltar on Monday and was then detained by the authorities.
Western sanctions on Russian oligarchs over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine have triggered an exodus of luxury yachts from Europe in recent weeks, with several heading towards the Maldives, which has no extradition treaty with the United States.
Reuters TV footage showed the “Axioma”, believed to be owned by Dmitrievich Pumpyansky, owner of steel group TMK, moored at Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory on the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula, flying a Maltese flag.
Britain imposed sanctions on hundreds of Russian individuals and entities last week, enabling authorities to freeze their assets.
Refinitiv data show the 72-metre vessel is owned by a British Virgin Islands holding company called Pyrene investments. An article published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists as part of the Panama Papers leaks names Pumpyansky as a beneficiary of the holding.

Abramovich's company Egaz warns of possible default on their bonds:

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/EVR/clarification-regarding-the-coupon-payment/15377221?source=patrick.net

The price of left-handed screwdrivers luckily hasn’t changed.

(google translate)

The Union of Consumer Rights called for a ban on household chemicals

There are no reasons for the rise in price of household chemicals in Russia. Pavel Shapkin, chairman of the National Union for the Protection of Consumer Rights, told Radio 1 about this.

“As for household chemicals, it’s generally ridiculous here, because everything is produced in Russia, no one flies Fairy from France. Therefore, when there is talk about the fact that the ruble has fallen, it has no economic justification. Therefore, this is an attempt to cash in on the panic that has gripped the population,” Shapkin said.

At the same time, he called the rise in prices for personal hygiene products a positive factor, since it only harms people.

“I don’t understand at all how we have survived to the point that we cannot do without household chemicals. Although 50 years ago this question did not bother anyone. In general, it is not clear how the Russian nation has survived for thousands of years without household chemicals. I think it's being used too much. We rub more than 4 million tons of the Russian population into our hands, face, plates and so on every year. All this adversely affects health, the skin, destroys the immune system, and affects the environment. I believe that it is generally necessary to ban household chemicals and replace them with simple folk remedies, for example, baking soda, ”the expert added.

FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut says

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This. And use cash whenever possible.

The White House confirmed Monday they expect certain parts of the world to suffer a food shortage as an effect of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

“We do anticipate that higher energy fertilizer, wheat, and corn prices could impact the price of growing and purchasing critical food supplies for countries around the world,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday.

She said food shortages were not expected to hit the United States, but rather countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

Reports have pointed out that both Ukraine and Russia produce a significant portion of the world’s wheat, corn, and barley as well as energy and fertilizer.

Despite Psaki’s assurance that the United States would not suffer a food shortage, the cost of fertilizer, grain, and fuel could have a significant impact on food prices.

Psaki said the White House could continue to work with global organizations to “do everything we can” to “mitigate” food shortages around the world.

“There are active discussions now,” she said, describing the Biden administration’s efforts to tackle the problem.”We’re certainly mindful that even if we’re not seeing an impact at this moment that sometimes supply chain impacts can have a lagging impact.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/21/white-house-warns-of-global-food-shortages-after-ukraine-invasion/?source=patrick.net

Higher Food Prices are Putin's fault, because Russia is a basket case we import nothing from... or something.

Russian Shoppers Are Literally Fighting Each Other for Sugar

In scenes reminiscent of the last days of the Soviet Union, Russians are scrambling to get their hands on basic goods.





In videos coming out of towns and cities across Russia, crowds of people are shouting, jostling and climbing over each other to grab the last bags of sugar in barren shops.

https://t.me/bazabazon/10695?source=patrick.net

Some stores have imposed 10kg rations per customer, and there have been reports of people attacking anyone they think is panic-buying. In one scuffle in the northern city of Severodvinsk, a man with five packets of sugar in his shopping basket was punched five times in the face during a confrontation with an angry shopper.

Russians who remember the turmoil of the last few years of the Soviet Union know only too well the importance of grabbing rare goods when you see them, particularly in a crisis. Sugar is usually bought in bulk by Russians who are going to preserve large amounts of fruit, or make samogon, high-proof moonshine popular in the countryside.

“It’s a madhouse,” one shopper in the southern Russian city of Volgograd told a local media outlet last week. “The shop assistants say sugar is re-stocked every now and again, but it’s immediately snapped up — people are deliberately standing watch in order to buy it all.”

Sugar shortages have been the first major material consequences of the Kremlin’s decision to invade Ukraine felt by many ordinary Russians. It’s been caused by a cocktail of factors that include government attempts to regulate prices, skyrocketing demand and a crash in the value of the Russian currency. Although Russia imports a relatively small amount of sugar, the gyrations in the value of the ruble mean foreign companies are suddenly unwilling to sign contracts with their Russian counterparts.

The cost of sugar went up as much as 31 percent last week, but it’s not the only thing becoming hugely expensive. With an exodus of foreign businesses and Western sanctions expected to lead to shortages of foreign goods, the price of imported cars and household items, like hoovers and televisions, has also shot up more than 20 percent since the war began.

Despite an emergency rate hike and the imposition of currency controls, it looks unlikely the authorities will be able to bring inflation under control. Prices in Russia rose 4.3 percent, more in the two weeks following the invasion than the government hoped they would over the entire year. Predictions for Russia’s annual inflation rate now range from about 15 percent to as high as 30 percent.

Putin is removing a cancer. Surviving cancer is never fun. Short term pain, long term gain.
Problem is, it's our cancer, too, but our MSM tries to make us think it's daisies and woke fairies.

(google translate from Russian)

Kostroma residents continue to complain about empty shelves in stores 11:30 18 MAR 2022
Elizaveta VISHNEVSKY
Kostroma residents continue to complain about empty shelves in stores
Desert shelves in Kostroma stores have become the norm.
They say that sugar is still in short supply.

Some goods continue to disappear in Kostroma stores, KOSTROMA.TODAY found out.

As Tatyana, a Kostroma resident, told a KT correspondent, yesterday in the Pyaterochka store on Prospekt Mira, 21 again there was no sugar and salt. According to her, the shelves have been empty for a long time, and the sellers do not know anything and do not give any forecasts.

“Of course, I was in the store in the evening, perhaps everything was taken apart. But sugar is still hard to find, although the problem was promised to be solved by March 14th. And the shelves are still empty. In some networks, only lump sugar remained, ”the woman told us.
In addition, the Kostroma woman noted that literally everything has risen in price in stores, and you simply cannot look at prices without tears.

Recall that in the Kostroma region introduced a rationed sale of certain goods. In particular, granulated sugar is now sold up to 2 kg per person, sunflower oil - up to 2 liters, wheat flour - up to 5 kg, cereals - up to 5 kg, vermicelli - up to 10 kg. True, the amount of issuance may vary in different stores.
In Pyaterochka on Nekrasovsky Highway, too, sometimes there is no sugar and salt.

Ceffer says

Putin is removing a cancer.

Putin is cancer:

Covid lockdowns - check. Vaxx passports and QR codes - check. Crackdown on peaceful protest - check. Censorship - check. Unjustified immoral aggressive war - check. 53% heathen nation attacking 87% Christian nation - check.

AmericanKulak says

And use cash whenever possible.

I've really been enjoying using cash everywhere. Clerks are often surprised.

Eric Holder says

Vaxx passports and QR codes

Ukraine is worse. Much worse.

The Ukrainian government in 2020 launched Diia, a digital app that combines identity card, passport, license, vaccination record, registrations, insurance, health reimbursements and social benefits.

That was before Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. Now, it appears the Ukraine government is expanding Diia, illustrating how digital apps can be employed during wartime.

https://themadtruther.com/2022/03/22/how-ukraine-government-is-converting-digital-id-system-into-wartime-tool/?source=patrick.net

Patrick says

Eric Holder says

Vaxx passports and QR codes

Ukraine is worse. Much worse.

The Ukrainian government in 2020 launched Diia, a digital app that combines identity card, passport, license, vaccination record, registrations, insurance, health reimbursements and social benefits.

Of course: Zelensky is a globohomo Nazi Jooish clown so it suits him.

But our Great Christian Leader!!! How could he fall for all this NWO bullshit?!!!

Following a fourth package of sanctions against Russia by the EU on the 15 March 2022, the Swedish Dockworkers Union has given notice about nationwide blockade against Russian ships and cargo.

The statement of the Swedish Dockworkers Union is the following:

“The Swedish Dockworkers Union has given notice to the employers’ organization Ports of Sweden about upcoming industrial action against ships going to and from Russia as well as Russian cargo in all Swedish ports.

The solidarity action will be carried out to support the dockworkers and the suffering working class in Ukraine during the ongoing Russian invasion.

I guess Swedish dockworkers didn't like seeing pregnant wives of dockworkers of Mariupol being bombed right in the maternity wards.

Or they are all Nazis.

It's not a sanction.
It's a special economics operation.

Grocery shopping in Russia with before and after price comparison:
https://youtu.be/BUFMSNgNh3s?source=patrick.net

Looks a lot like Bidenflation.

Booger says

Grocery shopping in Russia with before and after price comparison:
https://youtu.be/BUFMSNgNh3s?source=patrick.net

Looks a lot like Bidenflation.

I thought it was going to be 1000+% increases.

RC2006 says

Booger says

Grocery shopping in Russia with before and after price comparison:
https://youtu.be/BUFMSNgNh3s?source=patrick.net

Looks a lot like Bidenflation.

I thought it was going to be 1000+% increases.

The night is young....

Indians buy second round of multimillion barrels of Russian oil since the West announced sanctions:
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/598762-india-buys-3-million-barrels-of-russian-oil-report?source=patrick.net

Booger says

It's not a sanction.
It's a special economics operation.

And it's not a deterrent man, nobody c'mon man, nobody, in this Administration ever said that. - Xiden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpC7SYv3UL0&source=patrick.net

Honestly, the US just keeps fucking up over and over.

Because of these sanctions, we are going to have Russia, China, and India close together, and the US petrodollar is toast.

Patrick says

Honestly, the US just keeps fucking up over and over.

Because of these sanctions, we are going to have Russia, China, and India close together, and the US petrodollar is toast.

This is what bugs me.

Either you and I are wrong, or our government is fucking stupid, or they are doing this purposely.

Can I really be smarter than an intelligence group? I don't think that's possible. They must purposely be doing this OR we're wrong but I agree, this seems to be the only possible outcome, but hopefully, I'm stupid, and it's not the outcome.

richwicks says

Can I really be smarter than an intelligence group?

I think groups of people can be remarkably stupid, more stupid than any normal person.

Patrick says

richwicks says

Can I really be smarter than an intelligence group?

I think groups of people can be remarkably stupid, more stupid than any normal person.

I regard group stupidity to be a property of propaganda. If it bleeds into government policy, that's quite dangerous.

I still have the belief that even groups of stupidity are manipulated. I guess I'm about to find that out if that's true or not.

Patrick says

I think groups of people can be remarkably stupid, more stupid than any normal person.

The problem with groups is the best and brightest are not necessarily leading. Or they're an expert in one realm and suck at everything else that they're required to do. Or brown nosed ass wagons to beat their way to the top by lying and cheating to superiors.

I'm on a elected government board (tiny). The President is an amazing person, great community involvement and action. That said, she's not very bright. We're rehabbing a building for what we do (sorry no doxxing for me) and I'm literally the only one that knows anything about it. I already had to correct the architect we hired to save $20k in plumbing because we're on slab and the bathrooms were not logically placed.

From the outside looking in, sometimes I think elected officials are just trusted. Most are frankly stupid and the community never cares or are too lazy to run. The dumb asses elected then get to hire the bureaucrats. Now bring this to the Federal level and you get our current situation. The problem is I had no decision in any of it for the most part. I didn't vote for Biden or CA or IL Congressthings. We're a government of sales people that have no business being involved in hiring. Case in point, the current SCOTUS nominee. Now factor in who is on committees that hire and fire leadership. It's a shit show.

Indian State Oil Company announces 2nd multimillion barrel oil purchase from Russia.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/india-buys-russian-oil-pressure-sanctions-83522091?source=patrick.net

AmericanKulak says

Indian State Oil Company announces 2nd multimillion barrel oil purchase from Russia.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/india-buys-russian-oil-pressure-sanctions-83522091?source=patrick.net

Their Russian oil imports are still less than 1% of total imports.

Blue says

Their Russian oil imports are still less than 1% of total imports.

Last year. It won't change quickly, but if they keep getting deals, it's hard to pass up double digit percentages under the market rate. In the mid 90s, people said the same about Chinese Imports. "Just wait until the Chinese buy American made Caterpillars in the next few years - it'll balance out, you'll see, Free Trade Heretic!"

AmericanKulak says

Blue says

Their Russian oil imports are still less than 1% of total imports.

Last year. It won't change quickly, but if they keep getting deals, it's hard to pass up double digit percentages under the market rate. In the mid 90s, people said the same about Chinese Imports. "Just wait until the Chinese buy American made Caterpillars in the next few years - it'll balance out, you'll see, Free Trade Heretic!"

So Russian oil will flow to India with a discount (estimated at 30% currently) and the oil which was flowing there before will flow somewhere else. Net result: Russia gets 30% less for their oil and India spends 30% less on their energy. I say it's a win for everybody (except Russia, but who gives a fuck about Russia).

Russia’s oil exports shriveled by more than a quarter in the week March 17-23 compared with the prior week, according to industry data.
The country’s average daily shipments reached 495,300 tons, down 26.4% from the week before, according to figures seen by Bloomberg. That’s equivalent to about 3.63 million barrels a day.
While the data didn’t indicate any reasons for the change, the sharp decline came as Russia faces a growing movement by many of its usual customers to find alternative energy supplies after the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
Only a handful of nations -- including the U.S. and the U.K. -- have imposed explicit bans on imports of Russian oil. Still, many of the country’s traditional customers have undertaken a self-imposed buyers’ strike in response to the war. Major companies from Shell Plc to TotalEnergies SE have said they intend to phase out purchases of crude and fuel from Russia.
The decline in exports was at least partly driven by lower volumes from Russia’s ports on the Baltic Sea and in the Asia-Pacific region, according to loadings data.
Total oil production over the period was little changed, dropping 0.3% from the week before, the output numbers show. The nation pumped about 11.08 million barrels a day on average in the period, according to Bloomberg calculations.

I have some bad news for you guys. Sanctions do work, and I have a close personal experience with the sanctions against USSR. They are not so effective as the gov't claims them to be but not so useless as you would like. They are like carpet-bombing and over time take some serious toll.

Comparing USSR to modern Russia: Russia is smaller and weaker, it is more dependent on the West. The Ukraine war is a good example: Ukrainian military using Western supplies is standing up to the outdated and mismanaged Russian army. The same will happen to the Russian economy.

still1bear says

Comparing USSR to modern Russia: Russia is smaller and weaker, it is more dependent on the West.

For what? Financial fraud and endless wars? What does the West produce today? Electronics are made in China and those are toys nobody needs a newer, better, television. In fact, the TV you have right now can last forever. You now what is going to fail on it? A capacitor and when it does, you're going to throw it away. It will be a $1.00 part that is EASY to find, because the enclosure will be bulging out. Easy fix if you can't get a new teeeveee.

The USSR needed GRAIN back in the day. What do they need from the United States today?

India is a good trading partner with them, they are getting along PRETTY well with China. Russia has MASSIVE amounts of resources beyond just energy. Ukraine still produces a lot of food though, THAT might create a problem, and not just for Russia, but Europe as well.

Some people think that a famine is being purposely engineered. I'll say, that's possible.. We'll find out in 12 months.

I think that the result of this stupid aggression toward Russia is going to made a trading bloc between Russia, India, and China and "the West" is going to be left out in the cold. If Russia and China can make reasonable deals in the Middle East, get them to stop fighting one another like a bunch of savages, and get them to adhere to peace agreements, they will be able to take over the entire region in under 2 decades. The Ottoman Empire could be recreated as a loose Confederacy in just a matter of years.

The goddamned Neocons are either asshole idiots, OR they are intentionally trying to destroy the country. I don't know which.

richwicks says

For what? Financial fraud and endless wars?

For agro tech. For car/truck manufacturing tech. For military tech. For medical tech. For comms tech. For oil/gas extraction tech. I can go on but you get the picture.

Latest news: Russia relaxes auto manufacturing standards to allowing cars w/o airbags, w/o cat converters, w/o ABS/ESC and adhering to emission regulations less strict than Euro-1.