I wanted to share a gift link to a NYT article on the early victor of U.S. Israeli war on Iran: Russia.
It’s pretty clear that there is a clear winner already. Here are some pretty gruesome block quotes from the NYT report:
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia … spoke with bravado about European nations’ longstanding plans to phase out imports of Russian gas in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, threatening to accelerate the divorce himself as prices spike on the continent. “Now other markets are opening up, and perhaps it’s more advantageous for us to stop supplying the European market right now,” Mr. Putin said on Wednesday to a state television reporter, Pavel Zarubin, who chronicles the Russian leader.
In Asia, India has returned to buying Russian oil after receiving a 30-day waiver from the Trump administration, which for months had pressured Indian officials to cease buying crude from Moscow. “Crawling back?” the Indian outlet of the Russian state news network RT quipped in a post on social media.
Earlier in the week, Mr. Dmitriev used rocket emojis in predicting that oil prices would soon exceed $100 a barrel. The price of U.S. domestic benchmark crude closed at $91 on Friday, up more than 35 percent from a week earlier, before the Iran attacks.
By incompetence or design, Trump continues to hurt Europe, Asia, and U.S. consumers, and imperil Ukraine by supporting Russia instead. My contempt for these fools and idiots who support this Russia-favoring administration goes to 11.