Here’s What You Need to Know
You might be thinking we are “pro-Russia”. Nothing of the sort.
In essence, we would like to point out how Russia is way more important to the world economy than it was some 20 years ago. To embargo or limit Russia’s exports will only lead to an inflationary super storm.
Russia is a major supplier of the most wanted raw materials including: palladium, 46% of global production, platinum 15% of global protection as well as gold, oil, natural gas, coal, nickel, aluminum, copper and silver, as well as wheat.
Some 20 years ago Europe (and the “West”) had the North Sea, which produced as much as Russia and the US. Now it is a shadow of its former self. And if US shale continues to disappoint, it won’t be long before Russia becomes the world’s biggest oil producer “beyond reasonable doubt”.
Do you really think that Rosneft, Lukoil, or Gazprom are in trouble of being sanctioned when they supply some 36% of Europe’s oil needs?
Have a look at the below chart to see who supplies Europe’s oil?
And natural gas (not that this is unappreciated).
But there are probably a couple of commodities that few have given any thought to, coal in particular. Russia exports almost as much thermal coal as Australia (granted the chart below is a few years old but volumes wouldn’t have changed materially in that time). Russia also exports about as much coking coal as the US and about 40% of Australia.
Hmmm… switch off Russian natgas (for a theoretical exercise) and the world will need a stink load more of coal of which Russia is one of the top 5 global suppliers.
Guess you could always turn to uranium?
Granted Kazakhstan isn’t Russia, but they are rather friendly. Of course, uranium produced (yellow cake) isn’t the stuff that goes into nuclear reactors. That is enriched uranium, which Russia (Rosatom) accounts for 50% of world enriched uranium production. That is absolutely extraordinary. Roughly 20% of the US electricity supply comes from nuclear.
You know who’s really taking it up in the chin?
Our French mates run the place on nuclear, and guess what? Over half of this enriched uranium comes from the Russkies.
And who accounts for a fair whack of grain exports?
And without fertilizer crops don’t grow.
Leading Fertilizer Exporting Countries Based on Value – 2020 (USD Billions)
Should the rest of the world be sanctioning Russia’s commodity exports, we’d likely see Weimar Republic style inflation in those countries, particularly Europe.
Yikes!
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Russian sanctions are not the cause of today’s inflation. Before writing this did you investigate Fiat currency and or Central Banking and usury?
The American sheeple are fare more informed about the Kardashians or personal pronouns than they are about what truly matters. Russia matters.
Dipshit.
I’m anti Globohomoschlomo American Empire.
Look at reality numbers asshole not who wrote them.
I’m just a lowly pawn in the big game. I sure hope it works out for me.
Mongo just pawn in game of life…
Check what is happening in Peru…..and why. And it is only the beginning.
Russians…
What was that thing in the high heels? Sheesh, I wouldn’t have tried to walk in something like that even when I was wearing heels.
Haaaa….that was the best out loud laugh I have had day…and I love to laugh!
I saw Zelenskyy in shoes just like those and wearing leather gay shit….I hate a copy cat.
Funny that.
Arch- Have you seen the premiums on silver eagles, $42 an oz.?
Everytime silver makes a move up of more than 25 cents out come the big bank naked short sales that never get investigated. You can see it being done whenever there is a sharp down move instead of a bumpy up and down move like normal trading would produce.
There is an inability to think long-term and think of the consequences of policies by our corrupt Gov.
unless destroying the country for the reset is the goal.
There is an inability to think long-term and think of the consequences of policies by our corrupt Gov.
Destroying the country for the reset is the goal.
FIFY.
I keep an eye on auctions in my neck of the woods and have noticed that silver eagles are going for 50 to 60 dollars an ounce on a regular basis. Hell of a lot more than the spot price.
I’s almost as if they deliberately created and inflationary disaster in order to steal the wealth of the people before introducing a new system of exchange that would give them complete control over every economic aspect of people’s lives in order to keep them in line.
Welcome to Neo Feudalism.
Stolen from Doug Uncola:
“It seems we’ve come full circle: From indentured servitude and the Gilded Age of industrial exploitation, to the Norman Rockwell era of cushy pensions and a strong middle class and, now, back to the best of times and the worst of times straight out of a Dickens novel.”
Let’s focus on the best of times.
The fantasy of “Red State Redoubts” are just that. A fantasy. We will have whats pictured below before we have Red State Utopias.
Hangover houses didn’t mean where you went when you had a hangover it meant you paid 1 pence to sleep while on your feet hanging over a rope.
Pick one of your coming best of times and hope you get to choose which one.
Yoji has some pictures of Holodomor if this seems harsh.
The new jew nobility holds us in a contempt that we whites are incapable of imagining.
That’s odd. 8 separate images and all were blocked. Let me try again.
That has been the cycle for many generations.
It’s Russia, not the injection of billions, trillions, gazillions of funny money injected in the system and a mountain of debt which will never be repaid, of course.
I remember when the Boston Marathon happened and it was odd that the media fanned the hatred of Russians/Chechnyans when, at the time, nobody was thinking much of Russia as an enemy. I was wondering what they had in store with Russia as the enemy and tucked those thoughts away in my memory for later. Always multiple goals with these stories. Try martial law in a major city and see if people comply when told to shelter in place – check. Implant Russia as the bad guy in peoples subconscious – check and check.
Twice in a row. Forget it.