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  • Very interesting article! 👍

    The combination of lower oil prices and the oil price cap has done relatively little to dent Russia’s overall export earnings from selling goods to the rest of the world, which were $420 billion in 2019, $425 billion in 2023, $434 billion in 2024, and about $413 billion in 2025.

    This is a huge surprise to me if true, I tried to check the numbers, and I couldn’t find anything to show them wrong, on the contrary the numbers I can find seem to confirm this?
    This is very strange since we hear all sorts of Russian exports are collapsing. First and foremost oil, which is now worth half what it was 4 years ago, natural gas to EU is at most a fourth, and was considered a major source of income for Russia, but also I’ve heard coal to China has declined steeply, and of course their weapons export is almost halted as they need the weapons themselves.

    Those are all major export sectors, so how can it be possible for Russia to maintain stable export numbers?








  • And that’s just the start

    No you didn’t really make a “just the start”, because your point is stupid. Every European country is doing everything they can to get independent of American weapons.
    The reason we buy them now is mostly to help Ukraine, and maintain arsenals based on older agreements.

    I can’t keep track of every country’s evils,

    No because you are only seeing shadows in the dark.

    So yeah, if it’s “fuck the USA”, it’s “fuck the EU and NATO”, too. Sorry

    Absolutely not, you are just being irrational. EU actually stands for good, and respecting human rights is part of the requirements to be a member of EU. And those rights are actually upheld as law by EU. No other defense or trade alliance or union that I know of, is as observant to human rights as EU is.
    Even by your own account Your accusation is nothing but guilt by association. You are just raving without even having a point.

    EU deals with USA because USA used to be an ally that although a mixed bag, they generally stood for observing international law and for defending democracy.

    That has changed and we can’t trust them to do that anymore. So EU has started MANY programs to achieve independence from USA, and on defense one such major program to the tune 2 trillion Euro, is the SAFE program.

    Your ignorance and accusations are astounding for not knowing or understanding what EU is all about. Which is the exact opposite of what USA has become under Trump.