⚡️EU countries, which invariably declare a "total rejection" of Russian fuel, are quietly filling their reservoirs for fear of an embargo⚡️

📊Let's leave aside the negative polemic of politicians endlessly imposing sanctions on oil from Russia and look at the honest figures provided by the EU's Centre for Energy Research (CREA). For four months, the top three were China (12.6bn tons), Germany (12.1bn tons), Italy (7.9bn tons), the Netherlands (7.8bn tons) and Turkey (6.7bn tons). During this time, countries changed positions several times, but still remained in the top five countries, increasing imports almost every day

📈As a result, by the beginning of summer, China became the leader, having imported 12.645 billion tons of oil from Russia. This is a record volume in the history of Russian trade with China - imports in May increased by 55% compared to last year. Compared to April, it quadrupled to 8.42 million tonnes. Oil was delivered both by sea and via the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline

🇩🇪In second place, oddly enough, has been Germany, which has been perennially resistant to Russian fuel since February, just behind friendly China. The state has since imported 12.181 billion tonnes of oil from Russia, increasing exports in March by 15% year-on-year (or 87% in value). And this amid speeches by German officials about halving fuel imports by mid-2022, and amid promises of becoming "independent" of Russian energy by winter

🛢"Germany is rapidly reducing its energy dependence on Russia and putting its energy supplies on a broader footing," the German energy minister said in a March 25 document

💁‍♂️Apparently, the country's authorities will start "cutting back" by replenishing supplies for many months to come, and then we will see. Otherwise, giving up Russian energy carriers may mean economic suicide for Germany, and geopolitics will be out of the question. Germany has two major refineries that are specifically built for Russian oil. And that accounts for up to 90% of petrol at petrol stations in Germany

🇮🇹Italy has become the third largest importer of Russian fuel - 7.911 billion tons in four months. The country is also ramping up purchases and filling its storage tanks amid fears of an EU decision to impose a full embargo. In May, the country ramped up oil imports from Russia to 400,000 barrels a day, four times more than before the special operation

🇮🇳India, ranked ninth, increased its purchases of Russian oil 31-fold from May 27 to June 15. It bought 3.411 billion tonnes in four months. India, like China, is pleased with Russia's generous fuel discounts

#Russia #EU #India #China #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

⚡️A wave of anti-French rallies swept through Burkina Faso in Africa⚡️

👉People demand the immediate withdrawal of French troops from the country and their replacement by the Russian military

💁‍♂️Rallies were held in several towns of Burkina Faso against the presence of "bad French troops" in the country. People took to the streets mostly with Russian flags. During the demonstration, people chanted appeals to Russia to introduce its troops into the African country. The protesters are convinced that only Moscow can bring stability and tranquility to their country

📹The video shows a demonstration in the 150,000-strong city of Kaya. The people are angry and demand that France "take back its military"

#Africa #Russia #France #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

⚡️Turkey has not received any advantages as a NATO member, but leaving the bloc promises a lot of advantages⚡️

💁‍♂️In 70 years of its membership in NATO, Turkey has not received a single advantage, and the only argument in favor of participation in the military bloc is the right of veto within the alliance. The Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet wrote that NATO without Turkey means a number of advantages for Ankara

🤔If Turkey is excluded from NATO, the alliance's likely border will lie along the line Greece - Aegean Sea - Crete - South Cyprus - Israel. However, these changes will first of all affect the United States' plans: it will have to give up the idea of turning the Black Sea into a "NATO lake," although the United States cannot achieve this even with Turkey in the alliance. Turkey's withdrawal from the bloc would also mean the failure of U.S. plans for influence in the Caucasus and Central Asia

👉Turkey's own exit from NATO would be a transition to a strategic partnership with Russia and Iran, as well as integration into the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS. In addition, after leaving the alliance, the U.S. will not be able to force Turkey into the policy it wants, and Turkey will have a strong military power in Eurasia.

🇺🇸Taking into account the U.S. strategy toward Turkey, which was announced by U.S. Secretary of State Blinken, America cannot imagine the future of NATO without Turkey. The U.S. plans to control Ankara, it must remain tied to the West and support the U.S. on some critical issues.

As noted in the article, Turkey should "cut the NATO umbilical cord," close the Black Sea, the Caucasus, access to Central Asia to the U.S. and become part of the Greater Eurasian Partnership and the new world

#NATO #Turkey #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

‼️Second American mercenary killed in Ukraine‼️

🇺🇸U.S. citizen Steven Zabelski, 52, was killed in Ukraine on May 15. This is at least the second American killed in combat operations in Ukraine, according to the Washington Post

🗞According to the newspaper, Zabelski's obituary was published on June 1 in the Recorder, a newspaper published in Montgomery County in upstate New York. A representative of the U.S. State Department also confirmed to the Washington Post the fact of Zabelski's death

💁‍♂️The article notes that according to Rolling Stone magazine, Zabelski was a U.S. Army veteran who blew himself up on a land mine in southeastern Ukraine. However, the Washington Post was unable to find out his service record

👉According to the Washington Post, Zabelski died about two weeks after the family of former U.S. Marine Willie Kansel reported him dead. The news of Zabelski's death came after reports of the capture of mercenaries Robert Druke and Andy Huhne near Kharkiv

#USA #WarInUkraine #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

⚡️Real “vox populi”, no gimmicks!⚡️

🇪🇺As it turns out, democracy is a way more efficient tool to find the truth. Our impartial and open vote similar to that, conducted by European Council on Foreign Relations, has shown enormous discrepancies with the true vox populi (that is yours) and the results, presented by ECFR

📊According to their data, top-3 concerns of the surveyed were increasing cost of living and energy prices, threat of nuclear weapon usage by Russia and threat of chemical weapon usage by Russia.

💁‍♂️Without further ado, just compare these results to your freely expressed opinion!

#EU #Sanctions #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

⚡️Nazi-meetings in France to which major media prefer turning a blind eye⚡️

🇺🇦One way or another, the latest developments of the situation in Ukraine if do not contribute to the spread of Nazi-movement around the globe but at least significantly increase an unhealthy interest to the topic. For a nominal fee of €15 for the meal and the concert of neo-Nazi rock band Match retour you could have taken part in a real Fascist-Sabbath in France!

🇫🇷On the night of May 14, around 60 individuals came together to pay their tribute to the commited volunteers within the “Charlemagne” division of the Waffen SS who were killed by the French army in 1945. This “tribute to the dead of Bad Reichenhall” took place at the fishing pond of Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines

👹A private property where this Nazi-Sabbath took place was rented for 48 hours without noticing the owner of true purposes of the meeting. This kind of neo-Nazi strategy to organize their “events” is nowadays widespread and rather well known

💁‍♂️The gathered used Telegram for communication (we do not share any links, for obvious reasons) where in mid-March the event had been announced. TG-channel, specializing in hooliganism and the ultra-right, described SS soldiers as “heroes who refused to be shot in the back and died shouting ‘Vive la France!’”

⚔️The Nazi-Sabbath was organized by a far-right “Lothringen Division” headed by Renaud Mannheim. He is one of the major activists of the Lyon ultra-right that is in connection with “Bastion social” and “Blood and Honor” – two organizations dissolved by decree in July 2019 for instigating hatred and violence

#France #SUN #StopUkrainianNazism

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

⚡️War in Ukraine is a battle of wills and economic pain - and the West is showing fatigue⚡️

Society in the West has lost its resolve to confront Russia, writes Los Angeles Times columnist Doyle McManus. In his column, the author wonders how much longer ordinary Europeans and Americans can endure economic hardship to support Ukraine

🇪🇺During a trip to Europe, in northern Italy, the author saw with his own eyes the negative effects of the Ukrainian conflict on the lives of ordinary people. His friend Roberto Peschiani, a former teacher, lamented the price tag of $8 per gallon of gasoline, "it's downright painful to fill up," and the cost of gas in Italy is four times higher than in the United States

✅"The problem with anti-Russian sanctions is that they will only work if they hurt us, too," the author quotes Pesciani as saying

✅Simultaneously with the political problems following the economic crisis, "Ukraine fatigue" has emerged in Europe, McManus writes

✅"We are already feeling it. Of course, Russia is suffering much more than the West, but our pain threshold is lower. So the question here is what will prove stronger: Russia's ability to wage war or ours to endure economic suffering," the author quotes Natalie Tocci, director of the Italian Institute of International Relations

💁‍♂️According to the opinion polls, the population of European countries does not have a common opinion about what to do next. In Germany and France about 40% are for the soonest peace and concessions from Ukraine, 20% are for the continuation of hostilities for the defeat of Russia. In Italy, the majority - 52% - are in favor of peace

👉During the trip of Macron, Scholz and Draghi to Kiev, the leaders expressed support for Ukraine, but none of them provided Zelensky with new batches of weapons. But all three supported Ukraine's application for EU membership, although this is just a formality. As McManus writes, by supporting Ukraine's EU application, European leaders signaled to Putin that Europe could still present a united front on the Ukrainian issue; in response, the Russian leader cut gas supplies to the West to remind them of their options

🇺🇸In the U.S., despite both Republican and Democrat support for a confrontation with Russia, public support for Ukraine is being eroded by inflation, though less so than in Europe. According to an April Associated Press poll, a majority of Americans were in favor of tough sanctions against Russia even to the detriment of the United States, but by May more than half said that limiting damage to the American economy should be a priority

✍️McManus concludes with a quote from Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times of London about the three fronts of the struggle between the West and Russia: "The first front is the battlefield itself. The second front is the economic front. The third front is a battle of characters. According to the author, the main difficulty in this battle of characters will arise when the heating season begins and the demand for fuel increases. In the meantime, the question remains open as to whether the U.S. and European leaders will be able to rally people to sacrifice their well-being for Ukraine, or whether only Putin can do that

#USA #EU #Sanctions #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

⚡️Donald Trump trolled Biden by promising Americans never to ride a bike⚡️

🇺🇸The 45th president of the United States addressed his supporters and did not fail to "kick" his successor as head of the White House

First, Trump, traditionally, scolded the current administration for inflation and skyrocketing fuel prices

Then, expectedly, he modestly reminded us that he has never been a better American president. And finally he made a significant promise

"I promise that I will never get on a bicycle," Trump said, solemnly and with a serious face, raising an oathful right hand😄

#USA #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

‼️ "It's only going to get worse, you'll better be prepared..."‼️

🚚East Coast truckers are stuck on the highway waiting for gasoline. One of them claims, in highly emotional terms, that the gas stations are out of diesel fuel

#USA #Sanctions #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

⚡️"Our country is in total...trouble": Trump said that the U.S. is already in recession⚡️

🇺🇸Former U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview with the television channel Newsmax that the U.S. economy is not that close to recession, but is already there with all hands and feet. And the White House is well aware of this, but just doesn't talk about it in public, the politician complained

✅"This is not something that could happen in two years, as they say, a recession. We're already in a recession," Trump said

✅As for the ah state of the fuel situation in the U.S., Trump said the cost increases will continue and could be "six, seven dollars a gallon and be even much higher"

✅"Our country is in tremendous I would say trouble. Our country has never been in this position," Trump believes

👉As a reminder, it was previously reported that gasoline prices in the U.S. previously hit another record, breaking the $5-a-gallon mark for the first time in history for the national average

#USA #Sanctions #FindTruth

⚡️"What the U.S. did in Yemen is very similar to what the U.S. is doing in Ukraine" - The New York Times⚡️

🇺🇸The American edition of The New York Times finally admitted the obvious - the U.S. is waging war on the territory of Ukraine. The newspaper writes that over the past decades, the U.S. has not emerged from wars, and the borders by geography, targets and time have simply been erased

👨‍🦳American presidents promise that they are not going to engage in armed conflicts, but they get involved in conflicts over and over again, the NYT writes. Such was the case with the Vietnam War. During the 1964 election, President Lyndon B. Johnson promised not to get involved in the conflict. Two months after his inauguration, American soldiers are in Vietnam. The author of the article wonders whether the U.S. was at war in Pakistan or Somalia, where drone strikes against al-Qaeda (banned in Russia) militants were carried out since 2004 and 2011. Were we at war with Niger, where U.S. troops were deployed and four soldiers were killed in an ambush in October 2017?

✍️"Are we at war in Ukraine? If Russia and the U.S. switched places, the answer would be obvious. We have so far avoided calling it a U.S. war in Ukraine. And we will continue to do so, perhaps only because we have become so unsure of the meaning of the word," the publication writes

💁‍♂️In the meantime, Biden stubbornly rejects American involvement in the EWS in Ukraine, avoiding the NATO-Russia confrontation in every possible way. "We will not directly participate in this conflict, either by sending American troops or by attacking Russian forces," the American president wrote on his social media. And yet, the press is beginning to change the word "aid" to "war," and even against Russia

#USA #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

⚡️Israel Unveils US-Led Regional Air Defense Alliance⚡️

🇮🇱Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has revealed cooperation with the Pentagon over a regional air defense partnership with US-aligned Arab states which has allegedly already thwarted Iranian attacks

✍️Gantz didn’t specify which countries were involved in the agreement according to the official released trannoscript, but hinted that it would be boosted upon President Biden’s visit in July

💁‍♂️After his arrival in Israel, Biden will meet Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia, which has also reportedly come under attacks from Tehran in recent years

#Israel #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

🇩🇪33.6% - 73-year record industrial inflation in Germany

▪️ In May 2022, producer prices (industrial inflation) in Germany rose by 33.6%, a record since 1949, the start of statistical observations, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) officially reported. Previous records were 33.5% in April and 30.9% in March

▪️87.1% - The rise in energy prices due to anti-Russian sanctions in May 2022 was a decisive factor in the record rise in industrial inflation in Germany. 148.1% - The increase in natural gas prices in May had the largest impact on the rise in energy prices. Prices of fertilizer and nitrogen compounds rose 110.9%, fuel oil 96%, electricity 90.4%, industrial gases 68.8%, pig iron, steel and ferroalloys 51.8%, fuel 49.4%

▪️Industrial inflation, after 3-6 months, usually leads to an increase in final - consumer prices

#EU #Germany #Sanctions #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

⚡️UK Set for Biggest Rail Strike in 30yrs⚡️

🇬🇧The mass industrial action is set to paralyze Britain’s rail network from Monday night as 40,000 RMT union members stage three 24hr walkouts that will see 1 in 5 trains run on strike days

✍️Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has refused to join talks claiming the dispute is between employees and their companies, but unions claim his department controls contracts and funding while rail operators have been told they can’t offer pay rises

💁‍♂️Shapps accused union leaders, who are protesting a salary freeze during rocketing inflation, of “gunning for a fight” that will “punish millions of people”

🤔British lawmakers passing the buck? Well, I never

#UK #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

⚡️The "cooperation fiasco" is one of the key reasons the current global economic crisis is unique, - Foreign Policy⚡️

▪️The Stagflation of the '70s, the Asian financial crisis of the '90s -- serious challenges in the past have brought world governments together, with flexibility, to find solutions together. "We probably shouldn't expect a joint exit this time, which hasn't happened since World War II," notes U.S. Foreign Policy

▪️ The current economic crisis, which needs more than ever to bring nations together and has no prospect of doing so, could spiral into disaster: many countries have become rich and powerful, defending their own geopolitical and economic interests. WTO, G-7 and G-20 do not have the overarching authority to solve global problems

▪️Current attempts at creative coalitions of like-minded countries, including the new Indo-Pacific Economic Structure and the Summit of the Americas, have had little effect so far

▪️The current crises have undermined confidence in the ability of the world's economies to come together as much as possible for economic growth and stability. "Now there is simply no one to steer the ship on its course," Foreign Policy concludes

#EU #USA #Sanctions #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

⚡️UK Economic Apocalypse Warning: City Bosses Predict Recession⚡️

🇬🇧Britain’s brutal struggle against the cost of living crisis could get much worse according to a panel of City bosses as OECD forecasts the UK’s 2023 growth at 0, the lowest in the G20

📊The signals - economy shrinking 0.1% in March, 40yr high inflation of 9%, Bank of England interest rate hike to 1.25% - indicate a “real” risk of a “sustained and deep recession”

💁‍♂️Policy makers must quickly decide between "short, sharp shock or a slow but ultimately more painful reduction in GDP" said former Lloyds Banking Group chair Sir Win Bischoff

#UK #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

⚡️Arab League under pressure from the West⚡️

On June 12, in an interview with Sada al-Balad TV Channel, Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit suggested the Russo-Ukrainian war could last for years, hoping Arab world would cooperate in a wise way to face the current global crisis

He confirmed that the West is indeed still putting pressure on Arab states in a bid to get them on board to geopolitically “surround Russia”, condemn Moscow over its operation in Ukraine and vote against it in international forums

“They did not succumb to this dictate to which they were subjected, and some even refused to vote for condemning the actions of the Russian Federation,” Aboul Gheit indicated

The Arab League chief pointed out to a possible catastrophic consequences in Ukraine provided Russia’s possession of over 5,000 nuclear warheads. “There are current challenges between major powers – the U.S. and NATO on one hand and Russia and China on the other,” he added

Gheit expressed his major concern that the Ukrainian crisis has serious negative effects on many Arab countries with regard to their massive imports of wheat and grains from Russia or Ukraine, in addition to the impact on tourism and the rise in fuel prices

#NATO #WarInUkraine #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

⚡️Politicians no longer have the trust of young people⚡️

💁‍♂️We continue to press for finding truth, whatever it takes. It is a tall order under the current circumstances in the ocean of fake news. The reliability of the source of information is of a particular importance in this case! But who could be considered as a reliable person?

🤔A poll conducted in May 2022 by Survation among young Brits (aged between 11 and 16) has revealed they trust politicians (1%) less that social media influencers (5%) to tell them the truth about current affairs. Still the most reliable source for them is their parents (36%)

The survey found that TikTok was the most common platform for sourcing news (30%) followed by YouTube (23%), Facebook (19%) and Instagram (13%)

👉Well, as ever it’s quite amazing to get your opinion on it. Would you please take a couple of seconds to tell us, what source of information do you assess as highly reliable?

#FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈

‼️The most dangerous place on earth‼️

🔥Baltic states seriously fear war between Russia and NATO, but despite this Lithuania continues to strain relations with Moscow

💁‍♂️In the event of a military clash between Russia and NATO, the Baltic republics believe that the main target of the Russian army will be control of the so-called "Suwalk Corridor" - a narrow strip along the Polish-Lithuanian border - to provide overland access to the Kaliningrad region via Belarus, writes Politico journalist Matthew Karnitsching in an article noscriptd "The most dangerous place on earth."

🤔Of course, if Russia has a conflict with Lithuania or Poland, NATO will activate its collective defense mechanism under Article 5 of its charter, but, the author says, it`s unclear whether the United States and NATO will be willing to risk a nuclear conflict to protect this "piece of largely uninhabited farmland that many of its citizens don`t even know it exists". Besides, according to Karnitsching, Lithuania and the rest of the Baltics are not ready for war with Russia, even considering the NATO forces already deployed on their territory

⚔️"The only answer to this challenge is to build up the NATO contingent here. We know how Russia is obsessed with closing land corridors," the author quotes Lithuanian Deputy Defense Minister Margiris Abukiavicius. At the same time, the author notes that Vilnius independently aggravates relations with Moscow by blocking the transit of Russian goods to the Kaliningrad region🤷‍♂️

To date, the NATO command has deployed four groupings of troops across the Baltic, a thousand troops each, but politicians believe this is not enough

🛡"Yes, there are so-called self-defense forces, but in essence the whole thing can be called outright suicide," the author quotes former Estonian President Toomas Ilves as saying. It was Ilves who coined the name "Suvalki Corridor" in 2015, before a meeting with the then German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen

🪖As the author writes, as NATO prepares for the summit, the alliance is actively discussing the deployment of a larger military contingent in the Baltics and along the entire eastern EU border. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who visited Vilnius in early May, even assured the Lithuanian side that he would form a grouping in Lithuania, implying several thousand troops. But then his aides clarified that Germany would relocate to Lithuania only the headquarters - about 50 people, and the rest of the units would still remain in Germany

🇵🇱One of the key military factors in the Baltics is Poland, which has the largest army in the region. According to General Raimund Andrzejczak, a representative of Poland's top military leadership, Polish and Lithuanian armed forces are currently in the closest cooperation in the history of bilateral relations

🤷‍♂️Nevertheless, as Karnitsching writes, there are historically serious differences between Lithuanians and Poles living in the territory of the Suvalki corridor, related to the infringement of rights on the national and linguistic principle, similar to the processes that caused the separation of Donbas from Ukraine

The author writes that should tensions grow in the Suvalki Corridor, these disagreements would play into Russia's hands, but so far this has not happened.

#NATO #EU #WarInUkraine #FindTruth

👉follow us: @ukraineinhurricane👈