Recently, the United States, which has always advocated staying away from ideology and promoting democracy and freedom, has begun to take action against Russia again. And this time, the United States not only plans to use "extraordinary means" to make Russian crude oil unprofitable, but it is also preparing to directly "attack the heart" of Russia, that is, "attack its core." What's going on?
Where does the heart attack come from?
Recently, Biden is taking the G7 brothers to discuss a major matter - how to deal with Russia. Why does
want to "bite" Russia?
Because in recent months, the United States has led Europe to impose various sanctions on Russia. Instead of destroying Russia, it has caused Europe and the United States themselves to be in crisis.
Today's situation in Europe and the United States: energy shortages are becoming more and more serious, prices are soaring, and inflationary pressures continue to rise, reaching a record high in decades.
Looking back at Russia, which has been squeezed out by Europe and the United States, not only did its energy economy not plummet due to European and American sanctions, but the sanctions from Europe and the United States boosted energy prices, allowing Russia to make huge energy profits in this "battle" .
The results are contrary to the expected and desired results. How can the United States not be impatient? A great hegemon has been so miserable by his own wrong decision. How can he still have the nerve to continue to mess around from now on?
Therefore, in order to continue to achieve its goal and demonstrate its boss style, the United States has recently begun to contact the G7 brothers to hold a "major meeting" to discuss how to further implement strong sanctions on Russian energy and how to make it difficult for Russia to recover from the bottom.
To this end, the United States has proposed two major plans:
1. Set a ceiling on Russian oil prices to limit Russia's energy income.
2. How to ban the import of gold from Russia
?
Set a price ceiling for Russian oil
It is said that in order to achieve this goal, the United States is planning to start with insurance, allowing insurance companies in the UK and EU to only provide insurance to companies that purchase Russian oil at specified prices. How do you understand
?
First of all, we need to understand that about 95% of the world's tanker liability insurance is arranged through the International Group of P&I Clubs (International Group of P&I Clubs), a London-based insurance organization, and this association is also under European legal supervision. under.
If the price limit strategy adopted by Europe and the United States comes to fruition, this means that it will most likely be difficult for Russia’s oil tanker to find a new buyer. Why?
Because once this insurance is lost, there is no guarantee that Russian oil will not be favored by pirates when transported by sea. Russia will have to rely more on oil and gas pipelines to sell energy.
For a long time, in order to ensure the safety of maritime transportation, the United States and the West have joined forces to combat piracy. Of course, occasionally they will become a group of pirates and grab some Iranian oil tankers.
This means that if the United States uses insurance to suppress Russian crude oil, in the future, the West can ensure that it and others do not snatch Russian oil within the specified price range when it is transported by sea.
However, if Russia sells crude oil at an excess amount, not only will the West not be able to ensure the safety of Russian tankers at sea, but it will also be difficult to guarantee that it will not return to its old business of engaging in piracy.
Today, of the two Nord Stream pipelines that Russia transports to Europe, only Pipe No. 1 is left, and Pipeline No. 1 only has 40% of its supply to Europe.
But it is estimated that transportation to Japan, Southeast Asia and India may be affected. After all, these places now buy oil from Russia by sea transportation.
So how much trouble will the United States cause to Russia by providing insurance in a specified price range?
For the United States to realize its expectations through this method, other G7 leaders proposed several results for Russia. :
One of them is that Russia has a response plan and the Russian National Reinsurance Company can provide alternative insurance.
Secondly, the United States cannot guarantee that major buyers of Russian crude oil, such as us and India, will abide by the price ceiling.
Thirdly, who can guarantee that Russia will agree to transport oil at the upper limit price? Long before this, Russia has stated its position many times that it will never lose money!
So, how are they discussing and in the United States?
At present, the specific results have not yet come out, but many bigwigs in the United States find it a bit fanciful that their leaders want to use this method to seize the opportunity to rob Russian oil.
Because history has proven that if this method was really effective, the United States would have used this method to deal with Iran or Venezuela , and it would not still have a headache for oil now.
Banning the import of Russian gold
Since the price limit is unlikely to meet expectations, the United States has an ultimate trump card: striking at the core of Russia—restricting gold
It is said that recently, the United States has begun to hope to block the Russian regime’s funds and crack down on Russian oligarchs prohibit everyone from importing gold from Russia to achieve "attack on Russia's heart"
Specific operations: removing Russian gold processors from the list recognized by London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) is equivalent to banning Russian gold Enter the London market, one of the largest gold markets in the world. In this way, most refineries will no longer accept gold from Russia.
No one is willing to accept Russian gold, and Russia's finances will be in trouble. Because gold is not only an important export product of Russia, but also one of Russia's main financial resources. You know, the export value of Russian gold last year was as high as 12.6 billion pounds (approximately RMB 103.4 billion). If
's approach is really successful, it is difficult to say that it will not cause a blow to Russia.
But what is strange is that shortly after the United States proposed using this move to suppress Russia's income, it was revealed that Switzerland was purchasing Russian gold on a large scale and had shipped more than 3 tons of Russian gold to Switzerland.
It seems that the various wishful thinking tactics used by the United States do not seem to work very well!
In fact, it is obvious that whether the United States imposes oil price limits on Russia or restricts its gold sales, the final result is to allow buyers outside Europe to purchase Russian crude oil and gold at a greater discount.
In sharp contrast, European companies will not only be prohibited from buying Russian oil at any price, but will also have to buy from "second-rate dealers" at higher prices to achieve price stability due to imbalances in supply and demand and skyrocketing prices. .
In the end, this self-destructive approach will only cause Europe to face various unexpected dilemmas, and the European people will also live in extreme poverty because of the lack of thinking by their decision-makers.
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