⚡️Germany says it will back NATO expansion⚡️

🇩🇪Berlin will support the admission of Finland and Sweden into NATO, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, after the two Nordic states expressed interest in joining despite decades of neutrality

⚔️Scholz labeled Russia’s military operation a “turning point” for security on the continent, saying the attack prompted Berlin to scrap a long-held policy against shipping weapons into active conflict zones

👉The chancellor’s comments follow reports that 🇫🇮Helsinki could declare its intent to join NATO as early as next week, with President Sauli Niinisto purportedly set to announce the move on May 12

💁‍♂️It remains unclear if 🇸🇪Stockholm will follow suit, though the country’s parliament recently said it would conduct a review of Swedish security policy before a decision is made

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⚡️Supply Chain Crisis: Global Container Ship Bottleneck Warning

📊An estimated 20% of all container ships worldwide are stuck awaiting port entry, according to a Royal Bank of Canada study, citing Beijing’s draconian Covid lockdowns and the conflict in Ukraine as key factors

🇨🇳At the Port of Shanghai alone there are 344 ships awaiting berth, a 34% increase in the last month, with warehouse-to-warehouse shipping taking 74 days longer than usual between China and the US

🇪🇺Aggregate times of turnaround at Europe’s 3 largest ports, Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg, have risen 8%, 30% and 21% respectively - with RBC analysts warning “things are getting worse”

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⚡️Some may have to pay to use Twitter – Musk⚡️

💁‍♂️The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said he may charge companies and government entities on the social media platform

✍️“Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial/government users,” Musk tweeted Wednesday

🤔The media reported last week that Musk told banks that agreed to help fund his $44bn acquisition he would find ways to monetize tweets. Musk declined to comment on the matter at the time

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‼️Cost of Living Crisis: UK Govt Minister Suggests ‘Buy Cheap’ as Shop Prices Surge‼️

🇬🇧UK Environment Secretary George Eustice has suggested the British public can survive the sharpest consumer price increases since 2011 by buying “value brands”

🗣One Liberal Democrat spox slammed the Conservative party for “living in a parallel universe” and for offering “patronizing advice from a clueless minister”

📈Non-food product prices shot up 2.2% in the year up to April, the highest rate since records began in 2006, with food spiking 3.5% higher over the same period

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‼️GREAT RESIGNATION: Record 4.5mn Americans QUIT Jobs In March‼️

📊Tuesday’s US Labor Department report revealed an all-time high of 4.54mn Americans walked out of their jobs in March as employers try to return workers to offices, with 11.5mn job openings another record high

📈Professional and business services saw a 28% rise in resignations from a year ago, despite many companies offering higher wages, bonuses and holiday packages

💁‍♂️For perspective, before April 2021 there had never been 4mn Americans quitting jobs in a month, but that level has now been breached for 10 straight months

It was the worst of times…😔

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⚡️European countries risk aggravating their situation by refusing to import Russian oil⚡️

🇪🇺While the chairman of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen promises that the planned embargo will be implemented "in a way that will allow us and our partners to provide alternative supply routes," German Economy Minister Robert Habek warns (not for the first time) of high risks to the economy of the country due to shortages and further upward pressure on prices, writes Bloomberg

📊The risks to the European economy will also increase significantly - the International Monetary Fund reports that EU production in 2023 will be about 3% lower without imports of oil and gas from Russia, and the Bundesbank says that for Germany, activity could decline by almost 2% in 2022 if the energy embargo entails restrictions for energy suppliers and industry

🛢As the publication notes, last year the EU received more than a quarter of its oil imports from Russia, so now for the rulers of Europe the issue of complete disconnection from the main energy supplier is very acute. The same situation is with gas - natural gas is difficult to replace, and liquefied gas supplies by sea from other suppliers can not cover the deficit

💁‍♂️That is why all the loud statements of the western politicians are just words-the leaders simply cannot reach a consensus on the refusal from the Russian resources. That is why today the postpresidents had to postpone the negotiations about the embargo on the Russian oil import - four countries, namely 🇸🇰Slovakia, 🇨🇿Czech Republic, 🇧🇬Bulgaria and 🇭🇺Hungary were against it. However, this issue may be postponed for half a year. Moreover, as OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo said today, there is simply no spare capacity in the world to replace the amount of oil that Russia exports

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⚡️🇵🇱Poland started buying Russian gas via virtual reverse

💁‍♂️Nominally, this gas goes through the same pipe ordered by Italy and France, but, as in the case of Ukraine in previous years, without leaving the territory of Poland it settles in storages

🤔It will be interesting to see this reversal when Italians and French exhaust the contract limits and buy additional gas at the full market price, adding their mark-up for Warsaw

The fact is that 🇵🇱Polish storages are 80% full, while in Europe they are 34% full. That is, the 🇫🇷French and 🇮🇹Italians will definitely need gas before autumn, and in considerable quantities. In Italy, these supplies ensure the existence of more than half a million jobs, economists have calculated

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🌎Energy crisis - structure of the moment

🇺🇸USA: Gas prices rose 30% in April and 18% in the last 3 days. Amid a record release of strategic oil reserves designed to lower the price of gasoline, gasoline prices resumed their rise to $4.2 a gallon

🇪🇺ES: 38% increase in energy prices in April. $1079.5 per thousand cubic meters - EU gas futures in Wednesday's trading - according to London's ICE exchange

🇮🇳India: has dramatically increased Russian oil supplies since February and has increased them by 20% by today compared to all purchases for all of 2021

🇨🇳China: 60% increase in gas supplies from Russia via the Siberia Sila since the beginning of the year. China's independent refineries have increased purchases of Russian oil, state-owned companies PetroChina, Sinopec, Sinochem and CNOOC, maintain current volumes of purchases

🇩🇪Germany: German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said today that the EU embargo on Russian oil will lead to further increases in oil prices

🇭🇺Hungary: EU embargo on oil imports from Russia will destroy Hungary's economy, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said today

🇸🇰Slovakia: Slovak Energy Minister Karol Halek said today that banning Russian oil will destroy the economy

🇱🇻Latvia: recorded almost double the price of firewood compared to 2021, price of 2 cubic meters rose to €220

🇪🇺EU: EU postpresidents on Wednesday failed to reach an agreement on imposing an embargo on Russian oil imports

🌍OPEC: cartel secretary general said today that there is no spare capacity to replace Russian oil in the world

#EU #USA #Sanctions #FindTruth

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⚡️Some members of Sweden's ruling party have spoken out against Sweden joining NATO

🇸🇪Swedish Climate and Environment Minister Annika Strandhell, on behalf of the women's wing of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, which has a majority in parliament, has advocated maintaining the country's non-bloc status, Svenska Dagbladet reported

💁‍♂️However, the party is not unanimous on the issue, and a final decision is expected by May 24

🇺🇸The U.S. has previously given conflicting comments about security guarantees for 🇸🇪Sweden and 🇫🇮Finland during the NATO accession process, and according to a Pentagon spokesman, "this is too ahead of the stage at which discussions are now underway."

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‼️18% - in 3 days - gas price spike‼️

▪️In the U.S., the exchange price of natural gas soared more than 18% in just three days - to its highest level in nearly 14 years, reflecting the world's acute energy crisis

▪️Before the 18% jump, the price of gas had already risen by 30% in April. And over the past year, gas price quotes have risen 168.5% in America

▪️The reason for the spike in gas prices is "a flurry of tightening market conditions," including the possibility of restrictions on Russian gas supplies to the EU, CNBC wrote. In addition, U.S. gas production is falling and storage reserves are down 21 percent from a year ago

▪️Bank of America Managing Director Francisco Blanche believes gas prices could jump even higher. "We're in an energy crisis right now. I think one of the big issues that will help alleviate it is a serious slowdown in the economy, also known as a recession - but certainly no one wants the lower gas price to be 'paid' at such an expensive price as a recession of the entire U.S. economy," he said

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‼️George Soros declares war on Elon Musk over Twitter‼️

💁‍♂️A group of 26 NGOs signed a collective letter to companies advertising on Twitter, calling to boycott Elon Musk. According to the activists, under Musk's leadership, the social network will become a platform for increasing "hatred, extremism, medical disinformation and conspiracy theories

✍️In response to the letter, Elon Musk rhetorically asked who funds these NGOs. Among them, for example, are Hillary Clinton-affiliated Accountable Tech and Media Matters for America, the feminist UltraViolet, and Access Now Europe, whose largest donor is George Soros' Open Society. Signatories from Europe also include Fair Vote UK

🇺🇸Other major U.S. organizations supported the appeal, including the National Hispanic Media Coalition and Black Lives Matter. Activists are threatening a boycott of major brands such as Disney, Coca-Cola, Apple, Best Buy and HBO. In addition, Twitter was demanded to promise not to reinstate the accounts of Donald Trump and other Democratic opponents

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⚡️Between the pursuit of electoral hype and crisis prevention⚡️

👩House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made an unannounced visit to Kiev last Sunday to reaffirm the United States’ support for Mr. Zelensky and to become the highest-ranking U.S. official paying such a call. Photos of her dressed in an elegant blue suit with the Ukrainian President in olive green are to show the world society how important Ukraine is to Washington

🇺🇸Pelosi vowed that the United States would support Kiev “until the fight is done.” Beyond that later on, she was unable to detain herself from urging the U.S. and its allies not to back down from Russian President, whom she called a bully.
“Do not be bullied by bullies. If they’re making threats, you cannot back down. That’s my view of it,” Pelosi said. “You cannot fold to a bully.”

👨‍🦳On the other hand, Joe Biden, who has declared his readiness to travel to Kiev, still prefers domestic touring. He flew to Troy, Ala., Tuesday, to celebrate his Ukraine policy and securing U.S. jobs. The brass band played marching music at the Lockheed Martin Corp. plant as the President walked past it on stage amid “Made of America” flags with coats of arms. Stage behind him was adorned with several Javeline anti-tank missiles for Kiev which are being produced at the plant. The image could be even nicer if there has not been any real threat of shortage of workers and supply-chain issues to hinder factory output since the end of last year

💸For Biden, such beautiful images are important. In November, the mid-term elections are coming up in the U.S., and the government faces a difficult task: given the billions that are currently flowing to Ukraine, POTUS must convince Americans that spending is also in their interests. He wants to get a total of $33 billion approved by Congress for arms supplies and other aid to Ukraine by the end of September. That’s only $7 billion less than the average cost of the war in Afganistan per year. It could be a rather hard task to explain the voters why such amounts are justified especially in times of record inflation and without any immediate military threat to the Americans

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‼️Neo-Nazis in Ukraine‼️

In Mariupol, the Russian troops are finishing off the Azov units, notorious for their atrocities. Who needed neo-Nazis in Ukraine and who supported them?

🇷🇺The Russian troops are clearing the city of Mariupol of the remnants of the Nazi battalions that settled their and used the civilians like a shield. Judging by the numerous photo and video evidence, the Azov soldiers are very fond of alcohol, drugs and tortures

💁‍♂️According to the local Ukrainian civilians, the Azov bandit formations are distinguished by the greatest cruelty towards both Russian troops and their own fellow citizens. No wonder, if we know where that bandit organization came from and who its members are

👉In 2006, there was registered in Kharkov a local Nazi organization “Patriot of Ukraine”, headed by two ideologists of neo-Nazism Nikolai Kravchenko (Kruk) and Andriy Biletsky. But the construction of “Azov” began in 2014 when the Interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov decided to use civilian organizations as units of the police patrol service. Initially, it was financed by the Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky. But soon Arsen Avakov secured state funding for the regiment

🪖After that, many activists of Euromaidan, football ultras and other bandits joined the regiment. Avakov’s adviser Anton Gerashchenko did much to consolidate its structure. Kruk and Biletsky turned it into the most ideological organization. While similar units “Shakhtyorsk”, “Dnepr-1”, “Aidar” and others were simply engaged in some criminal activity, the Azov people turned to Nazi theories of the white race superiority. Even the symbols of the regiment practically repeat the insignia of the Nazi SS division “Das Reich”😱

Biletsky openly spoke about the plans of “Azov” - "The historical mission of our nation is to lead the “white peoples” of the world to the last crusade for the existence. A campaign against sub-humanity led by Semites”🤷‍♂️

So everyone should realize who is "Azov" battalion

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🇨🇳Chinese authorities are conducting a global stress test of their own economy

💁‍♂️According to The Guardian, from the end of February in China there is a large-scale check of the stability of the economy of the country in case of the introduction of the US sanctions similar to the Russian ones. The Celestial Empire has clearly noticed and evaluated the U.S. and European actions against Russia: at present, China's foreign currency reserves are about $3 trillion (!), approximately 10 times greater than the frozen Russian reserves

💸Another purpose of this kind of large-scale stress test is to find out how much the Chinese authorities can pay for active support to Russia. At the same time, there are very big doubts that the U.S. and the EU will risk imposing global sanctions against their largest foreign trade partner. Among other things, because together with China's possible retaliatory measures, this could lead to consequences that would be difficult to predict

📊The effect of taking China out of international trade and imposing serious sanctions against it could be comparable in effect to a local nuclear war and would almost certainly lead to the largest economic crisis since the Great Depression, a global drop in living standards, unemployment, a host of local conflicts and a new Cold War. Or perhaps a hot one: Taiwan still exists on the world map

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‼️US Training Ukrainian Soldiers at ex-Nazi Base‼️

🇺🇸The US Army is training Ukrainian forces at a former Nazi military base in Germany, having trained 20,000 Ukrainian troops over the past 7 years in anticipation of a conflict with Russia

🪖Brigadier General Joseph Hilbert told media Wednesday that the US has been using the Grafenwoehr facility, expanded by the Wehrmacht in 1938 and then operated by Americans since 1945, to train Ukrainian forces to use new NATO-supplied weaponry

💸Hilbert explained the US has spent around $126mn on the training, adding that “the worst thing the Russian did was give us 8 years to prepare”

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🧮📉Dizzying!

📉Societe Generale - minus 3.7 billion dollars, UniCredit - subtract 2 billion, Commerzbank - take away half a billion, Raiffeisen - 300 million... European banks complain that they are rapidly losing money because of the conflict in Ukraine. The damn Russians are to blame

💸All losses have already exceeded $7 billion. And that's just in two months. And there are so many more losses ahead, because the sanctions are working. Only in the wrong direction

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