Posts by Gregory Ramos3

casualtiger2 said:Russian crude is trading at $52—well under the proposed price cap

According to Bloomberg, Russian Urals crude is currently hovering around $52 a barrel. That’s a massive gap—over $10 less than the bottom end of the $65–$70 range suggested by the G7-EU-UK price cap mechanism.

The G7 and EU haven't officially pulled the trigger yet, but the price cap mechanism and the EU's maritime embargo on Russian crude are set to kick in in less than two weeks, on December 5th.

And look at that, Brent Crude is sitting right around $83, basically back where it was in January.

It’s just grinding them all down, nice and steady, you know? ☕

Now we're just waiting to see when the Russians will finally face reality and stop this madness, because honestly, how fast they catch on will determine if their recovery takes ten years or fifty. 🙂

Anthony Hill5 said:A major blow to Putin: The nation's leading tech giant is fleeing

The parent company behind the powerhouse tech firm often dubbed "Russian Google" is moving to sever all ties with the country in an effort to insulate its emerging ventures from the fallout of the war in Ukraine. According to The New York Times, this strategic pivot could seriously derail Putin's ambitions to develop domestic alternatives to high-tech goods typically imported from the West.

Google's local heavyweight, which operates extensively within the region, reportedly intends to migrate its most promising new technologies to international markets while offloading its existing domestic assets—including its widely used search engine, food delivery services, and ride-hailing apps—according to sources familiar with the sale speaking to The Times.

Russia is simply doubling down on its efforts to become even more self-sufficient.

Man, this is getting to be totally Next level...

Look, there's a massive difference between seeing big international corporations pull their funding and watching local companies start looking for the exit signs, you know? It’s a totally different vibe when our own homegrown businesses decide they want out, and honestly, that sends a much darker message to the public that's way harder to spin. I mean, if we really wanted to get aggressive about explaining it to the masses, we could always try leaning into that whole "traitorous" angle, though that might be a bit much even for me!

I’m honestly just sitting here waiting for the Senate to make a lightning-fast call on expropriating that company! ☕

There’s also this other thing on my mind, where by the time I actually manage to scrape together some useful data from a working database, the folks in the civilized world will have already invented and mass-produced something way more advanced, so unless we see some kind of insane scientific breakthrough, we'll just be stuck playing catch-up by a step or two forever..

Basically, when you've got that massive technological edge and you're constantly pouring money back into R&D, you actually get to keep that lead, mostly because the competition is too busy trying to reverse engineer what you've done instead of actually innovating themselves..

hiddeneagle98 said:Is anyone actually going to restart the fertilizer plants? What the hell are we waiting for? Natural gas is sitting at zero, and here we are just letting all that free fertilizer go to waste! 😁

Every single chemical plant across the European Union has shut down because they couldn't stomach those sky-high energy prices, so why shouldn't they be feeling the squeeze right now?

It’s just going to drive demand back up, which means prices will spike all over again..

I feel like we should just keep things simmering on low heat and try to maintain production as much as possible, especially while we wait to see if Putin gets so frustrated that he decides to reroute those pipelines entirely ☕

wearytrucker22 said:We're looking at a massive, sudden surge in gas supply across the US.

Is there any chance we see prices hit zero? 🤯 Let’s dive in. 1/n
https://twitter.com/AndreasSteno/sta...50621356134400
And now we've got a whole different set of headaches because the pro-Russia crowd is spiraling into a depression, and we're stuck footing the bill for their medication.

Man, he totally missed the mark on his prediction—he was actually way too optimistic 🤣 :



Putin is playing some kind of crazy 66D chess 🙏

But seriously though, I really doubt regular folks are going to feel much of a difference from this spot price collapse, even if certain corporate managers are already rubbing their hands together in anticipation of those sweet bonuses ☕

Also, countries that didn't go overboard filling up their storage will end up in a much better spot, since they can basically drive down the average MWh price by picking up extra gas for peanuts during a Black Friday style sale 🙂

I mean, why didn't some Saudi Prince just fly out to sit down with Putin one of these days? 🤔
I bet he gave him a firm handshake as a "good sport" after being so cleverly pushed aside as the top dog on the Chinese market ☕.

Chris Williams said:Look, casualtiger2, they aren't going to buckle. The Russians have just redirected the oil and gas that the European Union isn't buying toward India and China. It's the same with grain and those essential rare metals everyone needs. The European Union has about 477 million people, whereas India and China alone represent over 2 billion. Then you have the other 148 nations—including Turkey, Israel, Mexico, all of Africa, Asia, and Latin America—none of whom have imposed sanctions.

The USA has to maintain the petrodollar because there’s no other backing for the dollar, so they ensure things stay this way by fueling conflict rather than pursuing negotiation, which any rational actor would do instead of throwing gasoline on the fire.

The real objective seems to be for the USA to weaken the European Union, specifically Germany, while exhausting Russia, all while keeping China as the ultimate target... and they're managing the whole thing through maneuvering without having to fire a single shot so far.

Unless everyone else kneels, they'll have to act this way just to maintain their status and avoid bankruptcy.

So, if you look closely at who actually has horns and hooves... you might start to see who the real Satan is in this situation.

Hey, could someone help me out? I've got a little riddle here that's totally stumped me..

I honestly can't tell if my eyes are playing tricks on me or if everyone invented teleportation while I was napping, but I'm just not seeing how they managed to divert all that Gas meant for the European Union over to India and China.🤔

https://www.alvinalexa.com/2022/10/b...eam-1.html?m=1

So, the Danes are saying the leaks from NS1 have finally stopped and the pressure levels are looking pretty steady now..

Anthony Jones15 said:

Bottom line: stop falling for Russia's intimidation tactics. Russia isn't actually going to touch their nuclear arsenal in this conflict.

We thought they wouldn't invade Ukraine, either. We thought they wouldn't cut Russia off from the West, wouldn't wreck their own country, wouldn't commit inhumane war crimes on a daily basis, wouldn't...
But here we are, living through all of it.
The only people with any sense fled Russia long ago. Now, all that's left is a bunch of idiots brainwashed by propaganda and the poor folks who have nowhere else to go and zero cash to escape. So now they're stuck choosing between starving at home or heading to the front lines. They're going to war without even knowing why, who they're fighting, or what the hell is even happening.
I have never, in my entire life, seen a more pathetic group of wretches than these mobilized soldiers. I wouldn't trust them to watch a flock of sheep, let alone hold a weapon.

The takeaway: we can expect just about anything, and we should prepare to be blindsided. Putin has proven he is willing to do absolutely any disgusting thing just to feed his own narcissistic ego.

You know what actually keeps me up at night? Hitler managed to turn Germany into an autocracy in literally just one year after taking power.

This guy has been pulling this stuff for over a decade now. We're talking about kids growing up in this environment and becoming adults without ever knowing anything else.

That might actually make Russia way more dangerous than Nazi Germany was, because people have already normalized this whole twisted reality...

Terry Green3 said:The Indians, Chinese, and Brazilians really let me down. It seems like BRICS actually thinks they can run their own show.
This suggests we won't have any real leverage in the General Assembly, because the Africans led by South Africa, combined with the Asians and a few Latinos, will hold all the voting power.

We Europeans often forget that ourselves, along with the USA, Canada, and Australia, don't represent the whole world.
The world is actually a much darker, more pathetic place.
Basically, those outside our circle are just looking to create an environment where they can prey on one another and snatch territory through endless wars.

I still think there are plenty of countries out there that aren't about to let their neighbors organize referendums and annex their land without some serious pushback, ☕
though.

Russia used their veto this past Friday to block a Security Council resolution meant to condemn the annexation of those four Ukrainian regions, while China and three other member states decided to abstain.

The draft put forward by the United States and Albania actually pulled in 10 votes in favor, though they had four abstentions from China, India, Brazil, and Gabon.

Washington has already signaled that once this clears the Security Council, they’re taking the text straight to the General Assembly, where none of the 193 member nations hold any veto power.

Honestly, I have no clue why on earth they even let them stay in there when they're basically trampling over every single foundation the UN was built upon. 🙄

Andrew Booth29 said:But why? What does Russia gain from Kenya? Or Argentina?
It’s not as if expanding borders indefinitely is some grand strategic objective for these states... it simply isn't. Sure, they’ve played around with proxy wars globally, but that's a different beast altogether.
Maintaining an occupation in a distant land is just too damn expensive—I mean, look at how the British eventually had to pack up and leave the Middle East, and even then, there were factions actually willing to foot the bill for staying. It's just not sustainable.

If history has taught us anything, it's that no emperor ever just looked at the map and said, "Alright, I'm good, I've got everything I want." Human nature is just wired that way—once you hit a goal, you just raise the bar and set a new one, chasing things toward infinity like some weird math equation.

Or to put it more bluntly, why on earth would Russia want Argentina or Kenya? It's the same reason a dog licks its own business—just because it can.

Seriously, what the hell do they need these annexations for when they already have such a massive amount of territory to deal with?

Andrew Booth29 said:The world has managed to survive this long because we’ve stuck to one fundamental rule: stay out of my way—and I’ll stay out of yours. It’s that simple. We basically just split ourselves into two distinct camps, and honestly? That’s what creates equilibrium. This new era of bloc-based division is the new status quo—it’s stable. The only real question left to answer is whether the new border is going to be drawn right through Ukraine or just alongside it.

I think you’re missing the bigger picture a little bit here, man, because most people out there aren't actually capable of following that logic... if everyone actually acted on what you wrote above, we would've seen nukes flying at third-party nations years ago.

Fun fact : Quote

“don’t listen to all the people trying to scare you about Russia, acting like other areas are going to end up just like Crimea. We aren't looking to split Ukraine apart; honestly, we don't need that kind of drama.”

- Vladimir Putin, March 2014

“this is the final territorial demand I have to make in Europe, but it’s one I won't back down on and, God willing, one I'll see through to the end.”

- Adolf Hitler, September 1938

https://mobile.twitter.com/ianbremme...40947580981248

John Ramos45 said:Ukraine has officially submitted its application to join NATO.

The bummer is, that would probably mean giving up those territories, since they can't really get into NATO until they have full control over everything within their internationally recognized borders.

But hey, we're living in such a wild era where precedents just keep getting tossed out the window, so who actually knows what might happen ☕

Hannah Williams8 said:From what I can tell, there aren't any maps out there clearly showing where those regions' borders actually sit—you know, the ones annexed by the Russian Federation.

https://twitter.com/Hamza_Russia/sta...54468901609474

If my eyes aren't playing tricks on me, that drawn line represents the current front line.

Joe Biden really needs to get a Counter-referendum organized 😁

If he wants to throw even more chaos into the mix, some local guy could just wander out into the region and declare that everyone voted 100% to put the territory back under the Ukrainian flag 😬

gentlestag15 said:You can catch the live stream of the speech regarding the annexation of Ukraine here

It's actually airing on CNN

steelheron25 said:Russian State TV has this countdown clock going on.

Honestly, it'd be just as useful if they had a countdown clock for when Sleeping Beauty finally wakes up, right? Pretty much the same level of importance, I guess.

🤣

I mean, I suppose it’s kind of like that countdown everyone was tracking for the Ukrainians to blow up the Kerch Bridge. 😁

But hey, who knows? We'll just have to sit back and see how this whole thing actually plays out.☕

https://mobile.twitter.com/wartransl...66184845234176

Man, those winding roads they’re forcing the newly mobilized Russ troops through look absolutely brutal... I'm sure that's doing wonders for their morale, haha ☕