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.”
So 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.
sanctions work
Did not realize the goal of sanctions was to strengthen ties between Russia and north Korea, and provide NK with economic relief.
Why would you believe that the sanctions against Russia would in any way include North Korea?
Funny thing, the sanctions against Russia doesn’t include North Korea and the sanctions against North Korea never included Russia.
Happy to help you learn.
Sorry I’m not following your point
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They’re probably not paying much for the oil though.
And it is likely an act of desperation
So now north Korea, an economically suffocated country, can get some cheap oil as relief.
I 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.
Hope this keeps up and makes US sanctions useless on Cuba and Afganistan too lol
Also 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. And cooperate with anti-imperialist govs like Yemen and Syria more.
Seems there’s a broad trend of America getting its head pushed under the water. It’s a beautiful sight to see.
two countries trading on the free market™? imagine the horror! —the us probably
Okay 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.
You mean the country that the US killed 20% of the population and destroyed all infrastructure of?
Every day the US regime — the most warmongering nation in the world that’s currently committing a genocide in Palestine — 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?
Ok, I agree the us is fucked up in many ways just like the next person. But NK doesn’t need any help in harming its working class.
Yet the US is doing a great job at that
You mean the country that the US killed 20% of the population and destroyed all infrastructure of?
Every day the US regime — the most warmongering nation in the world that’s currently committing a genocide in Palestine — survives is a crime against humanity.
Both of these things can be true.
What has the DPRK done other than trying to survive under the brutal US sanctions that does nothing but harm its working class population?
Be a dictatorship that makes the Nazis blush? We all know that’s not why the US is sanctioning them but the NK regime has a literal god-king as its head of state. I know tankies like to defend everyone that’s opposed to the US but NK is just too much. And please don’t say nonsense like “That’s what they want you to think” or “that’s Western propaganda” because this kind of propaganda can’t survive in the modern day (case in point: Palestine).
So are you concerned about the people in the DPRK then? You realize sanctions do nothing but harm those people right?
Or do you think the supposed dictators of the country would take the damage from the sanctions instead of pushing it onto the working class population?
They do realize sanctions do nothing but harm.
That’s their cruel point.
Oh, 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.
I wonder what could’ve caused this?
Obviously the Russian economy is now so well that they can sell discounted oil to NK as an act of friendship (although they never gave a fuck about them in past). Because it can’t be true that Russia is desperate and even getting just a small amount of money for their oilis better than nothing at all…
It’s almost as if Russia wanted to integrate with the west since USSR dissolved, and now they’re realizing that the west is just a bunch of petulant children.
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.
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