24 October 2025: 16:30 BST
There are sanctions, countersanctions and workarounds. Anybody thinking the consumers do not like the Russian black stuff, better get a job writing comics or at a Swiss cheese factory. The alternatives always bore through; it just takes a bit of time. Hungary is already looking for workarounds – and admitting it publicly! It took literally a day. The oil will leak out eventually one way or another. That being said, the Europeans are still set on plugging as many gaps as they can – with a few conveniently placed loopholes. Meanwhile, Starmer said, with a straight face, “We are choking off funding for Russia’s war machine.”
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