Tag: Sanctions

The West needs China to make the oil price cap work. But earlier this year, a state-affiliated Chinese journalist tweeted, "Can you help me fight your friend so that I can concentrate on fighting you later?"

Europeans must hold their noses and open the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, argues Philip Pilkington. Doing so would give Russia an enormous political victory, but the alternative is the collapse of Europe's economy.

Since the war began, Saudi Arabia has been importing discounted Russian oil, and using it for domestic consumption. Meanwhile it sells its own oil to Europe at market prices. Our sanctions are helping the Saudis.

Russia underestimated Ukraine. But perhaps the West did too. Were our leaders assuming Russia would win a quick victory, after which sanctions could be used as leverage? And now those sanctions can't be reversed.

Graham Phillips, a pro-Russian British videoblogger based in Donbas, has been sanctioned by the British Government. Even though he's an unsavoury character, he should not be punished by the state without trial.

Britain is still importing oil directly from Russia. It's just that Russian oil is mixed with Kazakh oil during transit, so importers can say it's from Kazakhstan. This is basically 'Covid theatre' for geopolitics.

The US has said it will force Russia into 'default', but this is more like a confiscation of investors' assets than a true default and will backfire as investors in China and elsewhere will not be affected.

In defending his country’s own neutral stance, the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni accused the West of “double standards”, describing NATO’s bombing campaign in Libya as a “criminal and unacceptable act”.

Listen to the Daily Sceptic's Noah Carl debate Triggernometry's Konstantin Kisin on whether arming Ukraine and sanctioning Russia is the right response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine.