Russia supplies oil to North Korea as UN sanctions regime nears ‘collapse’
https:// www.ft.com /content/df23a473-ea0b-4882-be19-048ae0d501d2 Russia supplies oil to North Korea as UN sanctions regime nears ‘collapse’
Russia has started supplying oil directly to North Korea in defiance of UN sanctions ⠀
“For the past seven years, Pyongyang has had to pay a high premium for the oil products it needs, as it relied on a complex and expensive network of criminal brokers and mid-sea ship-to-ship transfers,” said Go.
“But now, it appears it has secured a steady supply of oil either at a heavy discount or as direct payment for the munitions it is supplying to Moscow,” he added. “That is going to free up resources for North Korea’s armed forces and its nuclear weapons programme.”
two countries trading on the free market™? imagine the horror! —the us probably
28Oh, but we have a pathological need to smash people we don't like! Of course we don't want the free market because then the free market doesn't need us.
20Okay I hate US hypocrisy as much as the next person but this is North Korea. Helping that regime survive is basically a crime against humanity.
-2You mean the country that the US killed 20% of the population and destroyed all infrastructure of? Then proceeded to sanction to hell because it dared to not be capitalist and allow the US's capitalist class to extract from it?
Every day the US regime — the most warmongering nation in the world that's currently committing a genocide in Palestine right now — survives is a crime against humanity. What has the DPRK done other than trying to survive under the brutal US sanctions that does nothing but harm its working class population?
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US Imperials about to seethe14So now we have proof that both the sanctions against North Korea and Russia work.
Before the sanctions against Russia there was very little interest from Russia in selling oil to North Korea. Suddenly Russia is all for trading with North Korea even though the Russian economy is booming (at least according to Putin and his friends).
If things were all a-okey in Russia, why would they even bother buying artillery ammunition from North Korea one might wonder.
6sanctions work
Did not realize the goal of sanctions was to strengthen ties between Russia and north Korea, and provide NK with economic relief.
20I love how all the mainstream western media openly admits that Russian economy is in fact doing fine, and Russia is producing 3x more shells than all of the west combined, but here you are with your galaxy brain take.
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Hope this keeps up and makes US sanctions useless on Cuba and Afganistan too lol
0Seems there’s a broad trend of America getting its head pushed under the water. It’s a beautiful sight to see.
13Also Iran. That would be quite the sight. An unhindered Iran might very well bring down the US colony in Palestine and other US proxies in the region.
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Half assed sanctions. Half ass aid to ukraine. Half ass rules of engagement.
Anyone with their hands still in Russia should have them cut off. And our "allies" still trading with Russia? Traitors. You know what the sentence for treason is right? Well I guess in the good old usa the sentence is you get to fucking run for president a 2nd time!
We are a weak willed shithole of a nation.
Oh no, the country founded on 1%ers not wanting to pay taxes, and built on indian burial grounds didnt work out? I'm shocked! /$
Trillions spent on defense, and we dont have assembly lines waiting to go to crank out the boom boom? Where the fuck did that money go? Why is Russia out producing everyone in artillery shells this far into the engagement?
Is it not profitable ENOUGH for some weapons manufacturers to have the government just own and operate their own assembly lines for ammunition?
Capitalism is a national security threat.
-9our “allies” still trading with Russia? Traitors. You know what the sentence for treason is right?
"People from other countries should be murdered for being traitors to the USA. PS, I am not a fascist, I swear."
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