“On January 10, the U.S. announced the imposition of sanctions against several Russian oil and insurance companies. The list of sanctioned enterprises includes Surgutneftegaz, Gazprom Neft, Ingosstrakh, AlfaStrakhovanie, and Radkomflor” — Why not applying sanctions on Russia’s entire economy?
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>The sanctions list includes 184 tankers, and access to remaining vessels of the company Sovcomflot has been restricted to prevent circumvention of international sanctions.
Ooof… that’s going to hurt. As soon as the previous lot of ships were sanctioned China immediately banned them from their ports.
From their point of view, they don’t care how oil gets to them, and if it gets to them at $60 a barrel in non-Russian ships, so much the better. The publicly comply with sanctions *and* get cheaper oil. Win/win from their pov.
And as this is *most* of the remaining shadow fleet, Russia is either going to struggle to find buyers, or else have to start shipping oil in other ships which will comply with the price cap again.
We may need to order 184 extra-large 10-metre Biden stickers with “I did that!” on them.
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“On January 10, the U.S. announced the imposition of sanctions against several Russian oil and insurance companies. The list of sanctioned enterprises includes Surgutneftegaz, Gazprom Neft, Ingosstrakh, AlfaStrakhovanie, and Radkomflor” — Why not applying sanctions on Russia’s entire economy?
>The sanctions list includes 184 tankers, and access to remaining vessels of the company Sovcomflot has been restricted to prevent circumvention of international sanctions.
Ooof… that’s going to hurt. As soon as the previous lot of ships were sanctioned China immediately banned them from their ports.
From their point of view, they don’t care how oil gets to them, and if it gets to them at $60 a barrel in non-Russian ships, so much the better. The publicly comply with sanctions *and* get cheaper oil. Win/win from their pov.
And as this is *most* of the remaining shadow fleet, Russia is either going to struggle to find buyers, or else have to start shipping oil in other ships which will comply with the price cap again.
We may need to order 184 extra-large 10-metre Biden stickers with “I did that!” on them.
UK follows US in announcing sanctions against Russian oil giants [update on UK from another source](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/01/10/7492973/)
It should be a biweekly occurrence if not monthly.
The faster they are “cured”, the better.
I have a feeling these will be very temporary.
They have also sanctioned Serbian NIS, thus pushing Serbia further away from EU integration and toward Chinese/Russian embrace.
Is it possible that Trump will simply remove *all* the sanctions in a couple of weeks?