While Zelensky’s theatrics are taking place in Switzerland and NATO is now daily threatening military intervention against Russia and Italian newspapers are warning young people to prepare to fight by 2029, the experts of the Three Powers that count at global level: China, Russia , United States knows that there will be no third world war because the commercial and financial relations between the Big Three are not only too close to dissolve but are increasing.
The herd of European leaders (mostly inadequate and corrupt) have been telling their people for almost three years that they have adopted severe sanctions on Russia. Which is true, it’s a shame that these sanctions are cheerfully circumvented by the European countries themselves through the hidden economy. This is demonstrated by the data from the consultancy firm ICIS published on Sunday 16 June by the Financial Times. This data showed that last month Europe’s gas imports from Russia exceeded supplies from the United States for the first time in nearly two years, despite the region’s efforts to wean itself off Russian fossil fuels after the large-scale invasion of Ukraine..
“It is surprising to see the market share of Russian gas and liquefied natural gas increasing in Europe, after all we have been through and all the efforts made to decouple and reduce risks in energy supply,” said Tom Marzec-Manser, director of gas analysis at the consultancy firm ICIS.
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow cut gas supplies to Europe and the region increased imports of LNG, which is shipped on specialized vessels with the United States as main supplier. The United States overtook Russia as a gas supplier to Europe in September 2022 and by 2023 accounts for around a fifth of EU countries’ supply. But last month, gas and LNG shipments through Russian pipelines accounted for 15% of total supply to the EU, UK, Switzerland, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and North Macedonia, according to ICIS data. LNG from the US accounted for 14% of supply in the region, the lowest level since August 2022, according to ICIS data.
The U-turn comes amid a general increase in European imports of Russian LNG, despite several EU countries saying they are strictly enforcing sanctions. As of mid-2022, Russia stopped sending gas through pipelines connecting it to northwestern Europe, but continues to deliver supplies via pipelines through Ukraine and Turkey. The infamous Azerbaijan Corridor pipeline will also serve to transport Russian gas by increasing import quotas in Europe. From Ukraine alone, 14 billion cubic meters of Russian gas have flowed to Europe in these two years.
This is why the Russian army is careful not to bomb the gas pipeline and to regularly pay Kiev in dollars the due annual royalties for the passage despite being aware that these revenues will be used to buy weapons and continue the war.
Two weeks ago, during a visit to Japan, European Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson expressed concern that some Russian gas was being diverted from Europe to meet demand from Asian countries.
Sanctions on Russian gas were made to prevent profits from financing the war, yet the REAL share not only remains stable but exceeds the American one despite the terrorist attack on Nord Stream 1 and the interruption of supply flows of Nord Stream 2 These are irrefutable facts that demonstrate that European leaders are telling a lot of lies to their people and to the Ukrainian people.
Gas supplies are not the only hidden deal with Russia. Fertilizer imports into Europe will triple in 2023. Macron, at the forefront of NATO’s military intervention in Ukraine, personally intervened to convince Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau to exempt Airbus and other aerospace companies from sanctions on Russian titanium.
This was reported by the Reuters agency, informing that Airbus and other French companies continue to rely on Russian supplies of the strategic metal for plants located in Canada and other countries.
A source close to the French president reveals that Macron has made “considerable efforts” to convince Trudeau to make an exception for European companies.
So European leaders promise Zelensky to help him militarily until the infamous ‘just peace’ is achieved and in the meantime they are allowing Russia to make billions in profits which also serve to finance the continuation of the conflict in Ukraine.
The only positive side of this immense and deplorable deception are the strict rules dictated by the international economy: trade (even if hidden) between states prevents any war, even global war.
And Ukraine? Having become a “tediousness” for far too many people, the conflict will be resolved after the American elections without consulting the European client states, much less the Kiev regime. Everything will be discussed and managed between mature men: the future American president (whether Biden or Trump), Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.
And the more than 500 thousand Ukrainian soldiers killed? The million injured among whom at least 300 thousand are now permanently disabled? 80% of infrastructure destroyed? An entire country and two generations of young people erased? Simple collateral damage that the Western media will hide or declare that it is fake news from Russian propaganda. The United States tried, it went badly and now it’s time to close the Ukraine dossier to look for other countries for the American proxy wars against Russia and China. This is how the world goes “Nravitsya ili net”, whether you like it or not!
Vladimir Volcic
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