The US has urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, warning that the drone strikes risk driving up global oil prices and provoking retaliation, according to three people familiar with the discussions. […]
One person said that the White House had grown increasingly frustrated by brazen Ukrainian drone attacks that have struck oil refineries, terminals, depots and storage facilities across western Russia, hurting its oil production capacity.
Russia remains one of the world’s most important energy exporters despite western sanctions on its oil and gas sector. Oil prices have risen about 15 per cent this year, to $85 a barrel, pushing up fuel costs just as US President Joe Biden begins his campaign for re-election.
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ffs, William Spaniel already made a video about this. Ukraine is only targeting Russian oil because the US is withholding military aid. There’s no incentive for Ukraine to weaken its war efforts and keep oil prices low, if the US isn’t going to give Ukraine anything in return. You can’t go around complaining about the economic impact of a WAR.
It’s just hilarious that the US will bomb Nordstream and push Europe into crisis, whilst resisting any action that might raise their oil prices in the election year.
Just so one-sided it’s incredible.
This is not to say that they did do the bombing, but the US had and has an economic interest in Europe buying US controlled oil and gas over buying Russian controlled oil and gas.
But that’s what Hegemons do, that’s how hegemony works, everything for yourself. No matter at what costs, the others are going to pay the price. What I consider ironic, that all the American people (the not so rich part of it) gets out of that status is feeling good for being a superpower.
Which is exactly what the population of the Soviet Union was granted from their government. And they are supporting a war to regain that status.
I can’t wait to watch the American empire to go down.
It’s not yet proven that it was the US, no? I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised at all, but I still don’t know that’s a fact.
Most people suspect it was Ukraine, honestly. But there’s a bunch of people who will try to blame America every chance they get.
Fact? It’s a full fledged conspiracy theory, with zero actual proof supporting it.
