The first photo shows New York after 9/11. The second photo shows Bakhmut after russiaโs invasion.
In the first photo, terrorists were at work. In the second, humanitarians.
Donโt get them mixed up.
The US Exports more crude products than it imports. Retail prices of gasoline/petrol & diesel within the U.S. are still up and cost of living is still up.
Buying from Russia ๐ท๐บ or Iran ๐ฎ๐ท does not reduce because crude & its by products are priced on the global market. The oil embargo during the 1970s proved this. China ๐จ๐ณ is the largest buyer of Russia ๐ท๐บ & Iran ๐ฎ๐ท crude. All you would be doing is competing with Chinese brokers/readers and driving the oil costs up.
Margarita Simonyan @M_Simonyan (@RT_com editor-in-chief & Putinโs mouth piece & propagandist) said Russia would defeat Ukraine โin two daysโ in a hot war, not specifically that Kyiv/Kiev would be taken in three days. ๏ฟผ
On 11 April 2021, during a live broadcast of Sunday Night with Vladimir Solovyov on Rossiya-1, she stated: โSo that it is understood, yes, in a hot war, we would defeat Ukraine in two days. What is there to defeat? My god, itโs Ukraine. We suppress their firing pointsโฆ and then we wonโt even have to bomb their unfortunate cities. God forbid that it ever come to that.โ The remarks came amid discussion of potential escalation and cyber aspects of conflict, not a formal prediction of a conventional invasion plan.