all right Alexander let's talk about the next EU sanctions package which I believe is going to be revealed any day now but it's going to be approved on February 22nd or 23rd so it can coincide with the fourth anniversary of the special military operation because you got to have the the media Optics of course but um they they've got the package pretty much prepared uh they're going to to go after Russian aluminum and fertilizer Xbox and PlayStation consoles and they're not going to touch L they're going to let the l& kind of slip through which
is which is very interesting on the on the flip side you have Denmark giving permission giving a permit I believe two gas proms so that they can maintain whatever's left of nordstream which is interesting and you also have a Financial Times article talking about what if what if there is a deal or ceasefire or something what if something happens to resolve the conflict in Ukraine maybe we can restart our uh cooperation with Russia on the energy front so you have two different things going on uh what what are your thoughts on well what what is
happening is that urula and her allies who still have the ascendancy um are going full steam ahead they're still trying to uh sanction Russia into crisis as they as they say they're they're trying to stop aluminum act import top Play Station exports I mean I mean I me it's an almost comic thing actually and especially if I have to say after the Deep strike revelations in with with China with with which Russia now has extremely good economic relations that they continue to think that this is going to somehow um affect or demoralize the Russians I
mean it most but anyway they're still insisting on maintaining the momentum with respect to sanctions and by the way there will be more sanctions on the famous Russian Shadow Fleet which we hearing all about and um already by the way we see that um oil importers from Russia are starting to uh prepare moves to counter this they're starting to uh agree to expect accept insurance for ships from more Russian insurers and they'll start setting up their own insurance and all kinds of things will be happening very soon to try and get round this but the
the momentum from the EU from the EU leadership continues exactly as always but alongside that they're now starting to come up against uh counter pressures and they're not counter pressures that are coming just from Hungary and Slovakia and you know the awkward Squad because um there's been a recent discussion and Analysis of what's going on with LG and it's becom increasing clear that uh Russia is gradually becoming the dominant supplier of energy to uh Europe and there is no restriction at the moment in theory LG imports from Russia to Europe though Ursula says that she
wants to change that and some European countries notably Germany insist that they do not import LNG from Russia and that LNG cannot enter Germany through German ports Russian LNG but of course it is actually doing so and there' been studies about this and unsurprisingly just as with the so-called Shadow Fleet worker arounds are being found so it is with LNG so in fact Germany Imports quite a lot of Russian LNG he perhaps Imports more Russian ly that Imports American Energy there are some suggestions that this might even be the case but what they are doing
is that they're importing it through various other ports in other EU countries and of course it's then being whitewashed as it's called then being called something else and apparently this is now happening on an Ever bigger scale and at some point according to the financial times and it's not clear exactly how this happened but apparently there was a meeting presumably in Brussels where some people from some of the member states and we're not as said talking about Hungary and Slovakia and they came along and said look this really isn't working what we need to do
as soon as the war is over and there is a peace agreement we need to go back to the Russians and start restart pipeline Imports and all of this this article in the financial times has appeared at precisely the moment when completely unexpectedly Denmark confirmed that they'd come to a deal with gas prom for gas prom to start uh taking steps to secure and preserve the nordstream pipelines one of which of course is still intact we don't know how extens of the damage to the other pipelines actually is so it is looking as if someone
at some level somebody quite senior and someone quite quite um you know with quite a lot of power presumably someone in Germany is now making decisions that the pipeline Network needs to be preserved because they're hoping that at some point soon it has it can be turned back on and the Financial Times article says that the people who are advocating this and they're very unclear as to who these people are though they accept that they are some of them German that um they're saying that it really doesn't make sense what we're doing this expensive LNG
isn't really effectively replacing cheap pipeline gas from Russia is causing a major com competitiveness crising crisis is putting Europe in a impossible economic condition we might therefore need to look Beyond it now unsurprisingly Ursula the European commission are apparently horrified and they're pushing strongly back and of course the Scandinavian countries and the Baltic states the hardliners in other words are doing the same so um the cracks are starting to appear um they still go through the motions of waving these sanctions through but increasingly uh ra sand ity is beginning to C through whether it will
be enough whether it will lead to any kind of change that of course is a completely different matter whether the Russians will be interested in supplying pipeline gas again or all of this is completely uncertain but it does look as if somebody somewhere in Berlin or Frankfurt or somewhere is now starting to say look this has gone as far as it can uh it's doing real damage and we've got to stop I I believe you're right I don't know who it who this is in in Germany or who these people are in Germany that are
trying to push for some sort of of of a resumption in the gas to Germany by nordstream but I imagine that they are saying this is crushing our economy Ursa saying crush the German economy crush the German economy meanwhile these people are saying Ura we can't crush the eom it's already being crushed we need to stop but uh I I believe there may be another reason that there's some very powerful people in Germany or forces in Germany that are trying to resume uh northstream and I believe that reason could lie with the rise of the
afde of course it I wouldn't be surprised if there are some people who are saying you know what we've tried everything with the afde we've tried everything to try and stop their their momentum how can we really stop their momentum we got to get the economy back on track we got to get prices down we got to get the businesses back up and running get the businesses competitive how do you do that your only option is Russia I mean I don't know that that that to me makes sense yeah I am absolutely sure you are
right about this and of course that again takes us back to uh this gives us a clue as to who it might be who is starting to take who do think well I I'm going to guess it's the ddu TSU people within that because I mean the ifj is the Big Challenge to them um the CDU cfu has uh historically been the party of German business that they're supposed to be very close to the business Community they have publicly taken very hard line on Russia and on Ukraine but um they are looking at um a
crisis in Germany and um they're saying this can't go on and obviously they're facing the challenge of the IFD and they're saying you know this has got to end this is we we we we lose we risk losing the whole game in some way and um since everybody expects the cduc CSU to form the next government in Germany you can imagine the German civil servants because this is presumably where all this is coming from who are very close many of them anyway to the CDU CSU remember the CDU is the dominant party political party in
Germany it has formed the government for much the greater period of the federal republic that it's people like that who are coming up to Brussels and are saying well we got to rethink this we've got to look at this and they're probably also the people who are contacting Denmark and doing uh that kind of thing no you know I want to stress nobody should make any assumptions that there is going to be a huge big fee change here but um it it wouldn't surprise me and it would make perfect sense and um it it it
does demonstrate that the cracks are starting to show and it also demonstrates that the strains in Germany are growing so if the sanctions go through which I imagine they are going to to get passed and approved in uh in February what uh what happens well what happens I mean they goes through they make absolutely no difference but these carry on as normal in terms of the Russian economy yeah how do they affect Europe I mean you're talking fertilizer aluminum oh um I was reading an article about diamonds when they place the sanctions on diamonds in
in ANP it's really crushed the diamond industry absolutely I mean what happens to Europe when when these sanctions get approved well they're going to make things worse I mean I I read the same article I'm sure that you did about sanctions but I I it's going to make the whole situation in Europe worse the the the um restrictions on fertilizer uh from Russia I mean you know the big players in the world fertilizer Market are Russia and Bellis just saying so you sanction them that's going to put further upward pressure on food crisis it's going
to increase inflationary pressures cost of living problems right across the EU but Ursula who is running an ideological project just doesn't see that and just as she's apparently Furious about these proposals to go back to Russian Pipeline gas and remember she's from the CDU by the way she's going to fight this every inch of the way and so will the European commission and well we'll see how it plays out but um the the sanctions more of the same as far as Russia is concerned Russia has shown an you know a great ability to diversify its
exports um it's just going to increase the pressures and the crisis within the European economy what what happens to the EU let's take this a step further they're they're sanctioning Russia they're cutting off all the things that Russia gave them and gives them hurting their own economies while they're also going to have to deal with tariffs from the Trump White House I mean indeed why would you put yourself in this type of position it seems to me like the EU is is is fighting a a war on two fronts well they're fighting about is about
to fight a war on two fronts they're they're fighting a potential war on three fronts because of course uh normally they put all their faith in you Imports of us LNG but um yeah I'm getting reading lots of reports now that despite everything that Trump wants to do um over the next couple of years at least um exports of oil and gas from the US are going to are going to Plateau so they and might even fall and nobody should be in any doubt about this if Donald Trump whose priority is to bring down living
costs in the United States wants to restrict LG exports he will do it I don't have any doubt about that at all by the way despite what he says about flooding the world with cheap us LG and oil um that is what his policy of tariffs tells us so a wise commission a contradiction in terms but an oxymoron you might say but a wise European commission would be thinking about those things and will be saying to themselves look um you know we can't continue this trajectory it is taking us taking us down into crisis um
we've got to start hedging we've got to think about um how we need to start reopening commercial and business links but of course they're not going to do that because these people don't think in in those sort of terms they are a purely ideological centralizing project and they're not ultimately held accountable for the effects of what they do so if there is massive de-industrialization in Germany if there is a huge surge in then if all of those things happen it doesn't directly affect the commission officials because they're not elected yeah but it affects the people
it affects the people well that is why that is why I mean that is why you should never create a supernational entity like the EU to run your Affairs in that kind of way true all right we will end the video there the durant. locals.com we are on Rumble Odyssey bit shoot Telegram rockf and X go to the Duran shop pick up some merch like what we are wearing in this video update free shipping on all orders over $70 that is free shipping around the world the link is in the description box down below take
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