How the West can peacefully and cost-effectively promote an end to the Russo-Ukrainian conflict and help Ukraine:
Increase oil production.
Doing so would lower oil prices and compel Russia to cease hostile activities, just as we've seen before many times in their history.
@officejjsmart I legitimately don't understand how Musk can have sch animosity towards Ukraine but seemingly so little towards Russia and Putin.
Doesn't make sense.
@SecRubio Just ask the Saudi's to increase oil production and crash the price of oil. This will put an end to the war immediately, as Russia won't have the funds necessary for the war.
Due to fears of an upcoming recession, oil prices decreased today to $65/barrel.
This is excellent news for Ukraine.
While Russia is able to produce oil very cheaply and thus with high profit margins, Russia still requires an oil price of $77 to balance its government budget.
@sentdefender Serious question, what do you think the effect of this will be:
1) Make the Russian civilians want to end the war.
or
2) Harden the hearts of the civilians and increase support for the war.
@DevanaUkraine You need to understand how fractured America currently is. Biden and Co. basically declared domestic war on half the country. So anything they supported (e.g. Ukraine) is to now be abandoned out of spite.
The USA is no longer a cohesive reliable country.
For oil and oil products alone, Europe was responsible for transporting approximately $175 million euros worth per day.
Europe has the ability to defund Russia's war machine, and current low prices make this more politically palatable.
Oil prices are currently low at $67 per barrel.
Before, Europe didn't impose extremely strict sanctions on Russian energy for fear of spiking prices. However, with prices at these low levels, Europe should help Ukraine by decreasing transport of Russian energy products.
@AnnaOdesitka I'm upset he's not taking the effective peaceful path to end the war. Increase oil production in the USA, crash oil prices, and stop the Russian war machine.