| | | What is happening on the battle fields of Ukraine requires thoughtful and patient analysis. How the msm has been reporting on this war this is utterly disgusting, and now we're beginning to see it.
We're told by western legacy media that Ukraine is winning the war against Russia. That they have the wind at their backs. In fact, Russia is taking over city after city in Ukraine and now we have four star generals using video game footage for war propaganda purposes.
We also have the Dan Crenshaw/Liz Cheney wing of the republican party's "automatic dismissal of alternative understandings of what is actually happening" in Ukraine and we should all refuse to accept the "pathetic wartime propaganda" we are getting from people like them and the msm.
Let's move on the the money battles.
Putin demands payment for Russian goods...........including gas.......to be paid in rubles. He wants payment in rubles because the U.S. and EU cannot confiscate rubles. European leaders are incensed at Putin's demands, but they have a problem.........Putin is in the driver's seat. He controls the gas, and oil, and food and fertilizer and they don't, so they have no choice. They've authorized imports of Russian natural gas by opening accounts through Gazprom bank and converting euros to rubles.
Russia is getting exactly what it wants therefore:
Russian oil revenues up 50% as Western sanctions on oil exports prove ineffective
May 17, 2022
theblaze.com
Europe predicts full-blow stagflationary if Russian gas supplies disrupted. Folds to Putin's payment demands
Tyler Durden @ Zerohedge
Energy
Why Putin’s Demand for Rubles Has Europe Scrambling
Analysis by John Follain | Bloomberg
May 2, 2022 at 11:44 a.m. EDT
washingtonpost.com
European Union Folds to Putin, Authorizes Imports of Russian Natural Gas
bigleaguepolitics.com
I take no pleasure in reporting this, but it is increasingly looking like Ukraine is getting crushed militarily, the Globalist West is getting monetarily humiliated, (there goes 40 bil down the drain), and the msm is getting more and more revealed as an absolute fraud. |
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