Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

That was clearly a typo and yes they did only produce that amount per day several years ago before sanctions started to get loosened as part of Iran deal with them a few months reaching a 6 year high of 1.5mn

What’s sold internationally is the only thing that matters for the global markets, especially in context of you drooling at the thought of global oil prices going through roof

If anything it shows that their whole production being theoretically completely wiped out not only would hurt their major source of foreign income but destroy their domestic economy reliant on oil

Your link is behind a pay wall

Out Of date and/or incorrect.

https://www.worldometers.info/oil/iran-oil/

Another source above.

You seem to have trouble posting accurate information ... as wittnesed when you claimed Germany is supplying a third of Israel bombs.

FT article is 5 months old (and quite a bit more trustworthy than random websites) and furthermore I provided a screenshot of you are not capable of getting around soft paywall

Now off ya go to the Axis of stupidity thread where you can cheer for whatever Islamic terrorist regime of the day is in fashion with far left today

If Irans oil production is wiped out everyone in region will cheer

warned and 3 day forum ban applied

I provided two accurate, searchable, up to date sources for you to look at. You could look at them and come to the conclusion your out of date screen shot might be wrong, but noooo it's easier to spout petty insults instead...

The last one looks too regular to be from explosives?

Last time I looked in on the state of play (six months ago) it was a bit of a stalemate with Russia beginning to gain an edge, slowly creeping further into Ukraine, but the Ukrainian forces would push them back again. Then suddenly it was announced that Ukraine had made a major incursion into Rusian territory……

That's where I left off.

Anything New?

I find it of interest how RTE cover international issues . It seems to be BIG into the Israel /Palestine war. And it allows those being interviewed to talk for ages ‘unhindered’. And they are never challenged re , for example, their knowledge of terrorists living amongst them, their knowledge of tunnels in their area, where their support lies,, etc, etc. there are no interviews with ‘ experts’ to explain the root cause of the problem re how the area was divided up by the British circa the 1940s’.

Whereas there is not a ‘peep’ about what is happening in ,eg, Sudan/Juba where there are thousands being killed ans millions being displaced - a lot of them going to Chad, one of the poorest countries in the world. Official Ireland , through its overseas programme , invested in Sudan for years. NGOs’ such as Concern, GOAL , MSF have been there for over the last 20+ years and are probably still there.

And the Russian /Ukraine war which would put the Israel/Palestine one in the halfpenny place with regards to numbers killed, numbers wounded, numbers displaced and level of physical devastation of towns, cities , villages - some completely levelled and totally uninhabitable. And all of this in the context of the very significant support official and unofficial Ireland is giving to it.

The production of ‘CHEAP’ news comes to mind. OR maybe RTE is ‘too lazy’ to make the effort to get more global news as to what’s happening in the world around us

Where is RTE Investigates’ when you need them?? . Are there a group of BIASED staff within RTE that select what to cover?.

The difference in my selfish Irish mind is that Ireland (or Europe) will never get dragged into a Middle Eastern war.

Whereas if Russia get through Ukraine there will be a war within Europe, the EU, NATO and so on. Probably a world war. We've seen how WW1 and WW2 started and the lead-up.

So I feel like the Ukraine war is closer and affects me more. Russia literally have spies here, they have war ships off our coast. They talk openly about wiping UK and Ireland off the map. They talk openly about WW3 and nuclear armageddon.

I have no such fears about Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the IDF or any other Middle Eastern group in that regard.

Putin wants to move Russia to warmer climes.

The dogs in the street in Russia feed on the people.

That concludes the news from Donetski Trumpski.

Im sure he does, at the end of the day this will stay contained in Ukraine, I'd see the public in Europe turning this into an election issue and will push for peace , Europe has enough economic issues without ploughing endless resouces into this.

Putin always pushes for more. When the forces were lined up in Belarus. We were told nothing would happen. Then it did. When the greed consumes a person it can't be stopped till they are stopped. Putin is not stopped. Any land taken in Ukraine is a justification for future land grabs.

British forces are warning of Russian terrorist attacks in Europe and UK. It's all the Russian mir know at this stage under Putin. What then. Cower again.

Putin doesn't want peace, and those who talk of peace are simply outlining the terms of Ukraine's surrender. Europe needs Ukraine's oil, gas and mineral resources and the best way to ensure security of supply is to have them in the EU and NATO. It really is as simple as that.

At least that is honest, still not worth fighting over Ukraine for them , its safer if Ukraine remains a buffer state and go back to the model of selling high tech goods to the East and buy necessary resouces from them too. As it is, Germany has lost access to cheaper energy and is on the hook having to buy more expensive energy from the Americans and elsewhere, this is an added risk to the future prosperity of the EU.

There wouldnt have been a war if Trump had been in for the second term as it obviously came down to bad politics/negotiations (thanks Biden). Its water under the bridge now so best policy now is end it sooner rather than later as it only means more death every day it goes on.