In Spite Of White House Warning Mad Ukies Strike Russian Refineries Again

 

Less than a week after the Biden administration, with the help of a contingent of Republican congressmen, finally pushed through the latest military aid package worth billions of dollars to Ukraine, Kyiv, ignoring warnings from Washington, launched a series of suicide drone attacks on Russian oil refineries. 

Top US officials have warned Kyiv to desist from attacking Russia's energy infrastructure because of fears that turmoil in the oily supply chain would send pump prices in the US higher in the run up the presidential elections in November. 

"Our region is again under attack by Ukrainian UAVs," Smolensk Governor Vasily Anokhin wrote in a post on Telegram on Wednesday as Ukrainian Kamikaze drones damaged oil facilities in western Russia. Another drone attack damaged the Lipetsk region further south, where steel production plants and pharmaceutical sites are abundant, Governor Igor Artamonov said.

"The Kyiv criminal regime tried to hit infrastructure in Lipetsk industrial zone," Artamonov said. 

The Moscow Times pointed out:

A source in the Ukrainian defense sector confirmed to AFP on Wednesday that drones in the service of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) had carried out the attacks.

The source made no mention of the attack on Lipetsk but claimed two oil depots were destroyed in the Smolensk region.

"Rosneft lost two storage and pumping bases for fuels and lubricants in the towns of Yartsevo and Rozdorovo," the source said, referring to the Russian state-controlled energy giant.

The UK Financial Times reported unnamed US officials recently said long-range drones have hit at least 20 energy facilities deep within Russia so far this year. Kyiv's drone attacks on Russia's energy complex have been frightening for the Biden administration, as Brent prices have risen to the $90/bbl level on higher war risk premiums. Higher energy costs increase inflationary pressure in the economy as stagflation concerns mount in the US. Also, gasoline pump prices in the US are inching closer to the politically sensitive $4 level. 

According to AAA data, the average cost of gas at the pump across the US was $3.66 as of Thursday, up from $3.10 in mid-January.

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There it is, Europeans want us British to lead them out of Europe. Don't be fooled by project fear, the European Union (aka the Euronazi Federal Superstate) is falling apart. There will not be chaos if we leave, there will be chaos if we stay. Today we have seen those alternative media pundits, myself included, who showed that the collapse of the British steel industry is the fault of the EU, contradicted. The EU tried to impose tariffs to stop the Chinese dumping steel and it was the British government who stopped them, the leftist media, politicians and economics academic whores said.

That's a less-than-half-truth, a great example of the way bureaucrats work, the statement contains just enough truth to prevent people demonstrating it is a blatant lie, but omits far more information than it gives us. Yes, under pressure from member states with steel making industries the EU did offer a sort of solution, but no it would not have saved European steel makers. The case is you see, steel producers in Europe are not uncompetitive because we can't produce steel as well as the far east, we are uncompetitive because the EU's crazy green energy policy and restrictive employment regulations would, were far east steel imports made more expensive by tariffs, would simply prompt global manufacturers to move not only steel making but motor manufacturing and other industries that use steel offshore.

Trade wars are not good, but the people who support free trade and open borders are also the ones who, with no sense of irony, are screeching about climate change. Forget globalisation, think about over - consumption. If we contract the major economies, make our stuff last longer, focus on building things to last rather than planned obsolescence, Carbon Dioxide emissions (which are irrelevant) will automatically reduce so the climate Nazis can STF up, but better, we will magincally reduce the amount of toxic shire we dump into the environment (and that is relevant).

So rather than importing steel to build cars and stuff in the EU, we would import cars and things built outside the EU for the benefit of the few people who still had jobs and could afford such luxuries as a small tin of soup to feed the whole family.

Tariffs worked before globalisation only because tariffs applied across the board and it was not easy to relocate an industry. Start applying tariffs selectively when businesses have plenty of options to circumvent them, and it is the middle and working classes who are hit. The rich of course simply move themselves offshore. Now the only way protectionism could work is if we leave the EU and regain control of our lawmaking. So off we go to Brussels lads. Or you could just summon up your testicular fortitude, ignore the scaremongering and vote OUT.

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