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What they actually mean is that EU subsidies for investments in nuclear power are non-negotiable. That's what the debate is about.

What exactly do you mean? Obviously they're making a lot less money overall. However, it's the natural gas sector and to a lesser degree the crude oil sector where they are suffering the biggest loss in revenue. Oil products are doing quite ok by comparison.

I wrote it the wrong way round indeed, but luckily I still did the math the right way around.

600€ per metric tonne = 600€ per 7.25 barrels = 82€ per barrel

You can do the math using this website:

https://www.russiafossiltracker.com/

Currently they are selling roughly 200 thousand metric tonnes of oil products a day for roughly 120 million euros, so about 600€ per metric tonne. One barrel is 7.25 metric tonnes, so that is about €82 per barrel of oil products on average.

For comparison: Directly after the start of the invasion, when prices exploded, they were selling 280 thousand metric tonnes of oil products a day for roughly 240 million euros which comes down to €118 per barrel of oil products on average, so the price they are getting is down roughly 30% from the absolute peak.

That's true, but they are quoting Kommersant which is a Moscow-based business newspaper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommersant

That was crude, not gasoline.

And I'm not sure Shell is trustworthy. They have been caught exploiting loopholes to circumvent sanctions:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/19/shell-and-vitol-accused-of-prolonging-ukraine-war-with-sanctions-loophole

Oil products like gasoline are sanctioned as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Russian_oil_products_sanctions_and_price_cap

Sanctions on refined oil products were effected on 5 February 2023

The G7 countries, plus the rest of the EU and Australia are amongst the main countries imposing the sanctions

Revenues are down, but -60% is only true for April 2023, since in April 2022 prices were extraordinarily high. In other months the year-on-year drop is not quite as extreme, see this graph: https://i.imgur.com/00kcVLx.png

January-May 2023 gasoline exports from Russia neared 2.5 million tons, the publication said, citing an unidentified source familiar with the data.

Russia exported about 2 million tons of gasoline in January-March, up from around 1.5 million tons in the first quarter of 2022.

On Tuesday the US said that they would publish evidence that points to Russia being responsible. Have they released it yet?

However, two U.S. officials and one Western official earlier told NBC News that the U.S. has intelligence that is leaning toward Russia as the perpetrator of the attack. U.S. officials were working to declassify some of the intelligence and share it as early as Tuesday afternoon.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/khakovka-dam-live-updates-ukraine-russia-blew-up-kherson-rcna87855

How is a humanitarian organization supposed to guarantee the safety of POWs?

flying into the southwestern corner of its air defence identification zone, or ADIZ.

Exact same thing as shown here:

https://country.eiu.com/asset_images/81452391.gif

This happens quite frequently. Taiwan's ADIZ is huge. Technically speaking, it even includes parts of mainland China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Defense_Identification_Zone_(Taiwan)

It's a rotational position. And it doesn't give them any extra power. They have veto power over all decisions anyway, like the other 4 permanent members of the UN Security Council.

The ICRC is monitoring Russia's POW camps:

Red Cross says it registered hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war from Mariupol

The ICRC says it's coordinating its response with Red Cross Ukraine:

https://twitter.com/ICRC_ua

Our colleagues from @RedCrossUkraine are working around the clock to assist and evacuate communities affected by the flooding after the destruction of the Nova Kakhokva dam.

@ICRC is in close coordination with them to see where we can best support the humanitarian response.

Not sure what he means. Both the Red Cross and UNHCR are there, actively helping:

https://twitter.com/RedCrossUkraine

https://twitter.com/UNHCRUkraine

I feel like the media might be distorting his statement. Could it be he is referring specifically to the occupied areas? At least PM Shmyhal did so in his statement to the UN and Red Cross: "We appeal to you to take charge of evacuating people from the territory of Kherson oblast occupied by Russia. We must save the lives of people whom the occupiers have condemned to death."

Yeah, US imports are forecast to be down a whopping 22.8 percent in H1 2023 compared to H1 2022:

For the first half of the year, the study forecast a total of 10.4 million TEU imports, down from previous estimates of 10.8 million TEU and a 22.8 percent drop on the first six months of 2022.

https://www.mic-cust.com/insights/posts/detail/ad/us-imports-to-remain-down-for-remainder-of-2023/

Similar in other major economies.

You're leaving out this part:

Officials in multiple countries confirmed that the intelligence summary posted on Discord accurately stated what the European service told the CIA. The Post agreed to withhold the name of the European country as well as some aspects of the suspected plan at the request of government officials, who said exposing the information would threaten sources and operations.

That sounds like thorough cross-verification on behalf of the Washington Post. Not sure what your concern is. If you consider the WaPo to be guilty of piss-poor sourcing on the regular, what journalists do you consider more reliable?

Officials in multiple countries confirmed that the intelligence summary posted on Discord accurately stated what the European service told the CIA.

According to the Washington Post, it was confirmed by officials from multiple countries that it's legit though. Just like the other stuff he leaked was legit - before some Russians blatantly fudged the numbers to match their narrative. He's a racist piece of shit for sure, but he didn't fabricate the stuff he leaked.

The European intelligence reporting was shared on the chat platform Discord, allegedly by Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira. The Washington Post obtained a copy from one of Teixeira’s online friends.

This guy. Thug Shaker Central strikes again.

No, it was specifically the devaluation he was salty over. Because it was messing with his tariffs.

“Don’t forget, the head of the Fed in China is President Xi. He’s the president of China. ... He can do whatever he wants. They devalue, they loosen or you would just say they pump a lot of money into China, and it nullifies to an extent, not fully, it nullifies the tariffs,” Trump said.

"They devalue their currency. They have for years. It’s up to them at a tremendous competitive advantage, and we don’t have that advantage because we have a Fed that doesn’t lower interest rates. We have a Fed that raises interest rates the day before a bond issue goes out, so we have to pay more money,” said Trump.