Seven refineries processing Moscow’s crude in India, Turkey and Bulgaria continued exporting refined fuels to the EU.

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    So basically, all the financial warfare against Russia has failed.

    Seems more like Europe is mostly hurting itself instead.

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      How is Europe hurting itself by accelerating green projects and self sufficiency?

      Putin making a Billion by selling way under what he would like and having to bend over to keep the Middle Eastern suppliers happy and having to find workarounds is not where he’d like to be, meanwhile my European electricity just got ~20% reduction.

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        I guess we’ll see how inflation is in the next year. It’s cooled, but remember all that inflation is now baked into the system. Prices don’t actually go down when inflation does.

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          This so completely irrelevant to what you said and I just told my prices are going down significantly.

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              Yes, my mortgage rates have stopped rising and groceries are expensive but have stopped increasing for the most part.

              Do tell me how you relate this to a Russian success and European failure? Or are you just throwing around noteworthy hot topics in the hope it will make your original assertion less stupid?

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                “Stopped rising” is not “gone down”, which only means unaffordable prices are going to stay unaffordable instead of becoming more unaffordable.

                Also I never claimed anything about Russian success. This is American success. America has successfully crippled two geopolitical and economic rivals. Europe is now reliant on the US for gas after the pipeline was destroyed (gee I wonder who did that!)

                Although now Russia has started to recover from the sanctions regime it is just accelerating dedollarization lol

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                  You claimed the sanctions we’re a failure implying a Russian success. That’s wrong, they’ve completely overhauled their economy, fucked their population and lost skilled professionals.

                  Europe has only hurt itself was the other assertion but given the unity among members against the war I’d argue the opposite. It also convinced other nations to join NATO which is a complete failure for Russia.

                  My grocery bills have gone down and I don’t know what to tell you regarding rent, my mortgage is fine.

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      Seems like the main goal was to just convince the public that Europe is no longer dependent on Russia for energy. In that sense they succeeded, since a lot of Europeans now believe this.

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      Except it clearly hasn’t. Why are you manipulating public discussion in favor of a dictatorship?

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        Asserting so does not make it so. The Eurozone is in recession and growth is flat, meanwhile Russia is still growing. Russia is coming out ahead of this sanctions/trade war with Europe.

        That said? The US is the real winner here. It gets to hurt Russia and Europe and the same time and make them think it was their idea! Meanwhile, people just assume anyone who doesn’t say Russia is going to collapse any day now is working for Putin. 🤡

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          Russia is still growing

          You mean like how the Soviet Ruble was worth hundreds of dollars, yet the USSR had to pay for western goods with old battleships? Oh, the irony - “Asserting so does not make it so.”