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Cuba’s Worst Fuel Crisis in Decades May Get Relief From Russia (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The archive link was not happy so I don't know if the article answered, but how do they plan on preventing it getting turned away by the US Navy again? Did they send it with a Russian naval escort?

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's the part I'm curious about as well. As far as I know it doesn't have an escort. So it could be Russia daring the US to seize their tanker. So far, the US has refrained from touching tankers that are sailing under the Russian flag. They've seized tankers carrying Russian oil before, but they were registered in other countries. It'll be interesting to see what the Americans do here.

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So far, the US has refrained from touching tankers that are sailing under the Russian flag.

Sadly, according to Lavrov, the EU are using the ukrainians(or they themselves) to attack them:

For some reason, no one is concerned about freedom of navigation in the Mediterranean or the Baltic Sea, where unlawful seizures of tankers have become more frequent. In the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, Ukrainian terrorists have attacked tankers. One of them - Arctic Metagas - has almost sunk and is drifting in the Mediterranean. Recently, a Greek tanker came under attack in the Black Sea. The TurkStream and Blue Stream gas pipeline infrastructure has been targeted as well.

https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/international_safety/2086474/

This was published yesterday.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeah weird how that works eh

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I speculate that this charade from the EU vassals and the other occupied global south countries will soon end. Right now, it appears to be a reality that plenty of Western countries are joining in the weaponization of oil routes which will cause pain to their own economies.

With the closure of the Hormuz Straight, lots of Western countries and bootlickers like India are feeling the pain which will push them to either break ranks with the US or to collapse.

It will happen very soon and, if it does, a way to provide oil to Cuba will appear even from Latin America. Right now, the US is slowly easing the naval blockade by moving assets from the Caribbean to the Gulf Countries. This will allow plenty of opportunities for oil delivery.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, if Cuba can hold out for a few more months, we may be living in a whole different world by then.

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The previous tanker sent to Cuba to break the blockade was not Russian-flagged?

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 day ago

I don't think so, but I could be wrong.