It's not because Russia is importing fertilizer even to the EU. France, Germany and Poland are big importers. Most countries imports of Russian fertilizer is up especially China. It didn't happen because Russian exports haven't stopped even to countries that support Ukraine because the whole thing is a clown show.
Where is Europe's blowback against Iran which has been directly helping Russia in Ukraine with drones the entire time. China is basically bankrolling Russia increasing imports several fold and ignoring every sanction. So why is every European leader sucking up to XI and having a sudden onset of amnesia conveniently forgetting that they have an entire ethnic minority in camps every time a trade deal comes. I have been really disappointed with America in this war but the EU is still buying billions of Russian exports. I don't know how people just forget it.
Then why the fuck has gas gone up more than $1 per gallon in a month's span?
Then why the fuck has gas gone up more than $1 per gallon in a month's span?
With the current media landscape the worst thing anybody can do is acknowledging anything. You have to deny everything, without giving media any angle to attack. Especially considering how incosistent gas prices across various USA states. Like, people are still blaming California gas prices on everybody except...California. Prices will go up and down eventually. Media narratives remain.
Clock is ticking down for these two guys
It won't matter when the prices will go down in 1,2,3 months. Modern society moves on fast with swings in opinions within 1 week sometimes. It matters in the immediate vicinity, but it does not matter on a longer timeline. In fact the way people feel is kinda framed by the media - we have too many people believing everything they see on TV or online. Society has become extremely volatile and I would argue that the attension span is becoming smaller and smaller.
Yeah. Oil market, gold market, stock market is driven by people (whales, big players, hostile players) gaming it. It is all speculative. Considering the worldwide trends, every asset will become volatile because the world will become more and more turbulent, due to a set of upcoming events.
The dying regime. Considering that even in Russian-Ukrainian war they haven't done that it just tells you that Iran is going down.
Fox has been reporting this for hours. He wasn't calling the tankers themselves the gift as I understand. He was calling the passage being allowed a gift, as proof the people they were talking to are legit, per the report I read.
Yes sorry I wasn't suggesting he had been gifted 8 tankers of oil.
Honestly I don't know why he thinks using the term gift makes any sense in this context. He knows or darn well should know that it would give ammo to people criticizing the operation.
I know TDS gets thrown around in here... but if there ever was an on the nose example, it's this retard shit.
Buying time... Intrigued if there are negotiations taking place rather than passing messages through Palestinian middle men, just a little doubtful. We'll see I guess...
Sure went well with Iraq/Afghanistan and the Taliban, didn't it.
I think USA is buying time for something. What that something is a question though. Strikes did not stop after all. I don't think negotiations will go anywhere because the survival of the current leadership in Iran will be a big political loss for Trump and USA, unless the get something big as a trophy, which Iran (well, the leadership) would not be willing to do because it would be a political suicide for them internally too.
Through the Pakistanis, not the Palestinians. The Pakistanis were already on the list of "approved" countries that could pass thru the Strait.
Oh yes sorry - bit stoned :/ o' course it's the Pakistani's.
You're making a rather large assumption that simply launching strikes from a distance, and chopping off the head of the snake is a solution to this problem. When all it succeeds in doing is hardening sympathisers of the regime that yet live at best, and creating new sympathisers at worst as innocent people's lives are destroyed.
US and Iran trading ships for hostages is an amusing idea by Joe Kent.
Since when do we care about how feasible it is or what the consequence would be? The question is would stocks go up or down?
This is what I heard being discussed earlier - that Iran don't need to negotiate because they can afford to wait this out, they have the potential for an economic victory. Trump, meanwhile, needs a way out.
