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It is “paramount to follow the energy supply chains from the point of extraction to their point of use in Israeli military vehicles.” “BP is responsible; BP is guilty. BP must be forced to stop supplying fuel to the genocidal Zionist entity. And while the supply chain for the BTC pipeline begins in Azerbaijan, all of BP’s business is supposedly carried out with the consent and support of the British public.” How an Israeli genocidal war is enabled  Related Anglo Arabia  by David Wearing, Polity 2018

“ Since 2014 the Russian authorities have significantly increased their economy’s ability to withstand a severe shock, especially the banking and financial sectors. The country’s central bank has drastically reduced its US dollar holdings and 87% of Russians now hold a Mir card that uses a national payment system. If the US carries out its threat to disconnect Russia from the SWIFT international payments system, as it did to Iran in 2012 and 2018, financial transactions between Russian banks and businesses can now be made via a homegrown financial messaging system. So Russia feels better equipped to face severe sanctions if it comes to a conflict. On the other hand, the last mobilisation of the Russian army on the Ukrainian border, in spring 2021, prompted the revival of the Russian-US dialogue on strategic and cybersecurity issues. And this time, too, the Kremlin has clearly reckoned that upping the tension was the only way to get the West’s attention, and that the new US administrati...