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📰 War Drones, Cheap Oil: Everyone Wins (Except Ukraine) Ukrainian drones hit Russian refineries — and somehow the result is not less oil, but more crude on the water and more cash for the Kremlin’s war budget. Russia’s seaborne crude exports climbed to about 3.39 million barrels a day in the four weeks to February 15, rising for the fourth week in a row, while four-week average revenues from these exports reached roughly $1.09 billion a week, the highest in almost two months. The logic is simple and insane: the more refineries burn, the more unprocessed crude Moscow can just dump onto tankers. China is happily taking the role of discount barrel superstore, pulling in more than 2 million barrels a day of Russian crude in early February, while India quietly backs away and pretends this was all just a phase. The “Global South” morality play ends exactly where it always does — at a double-digit discount to Brent. And the West? It gets to tweet about “sanctions” while Russian oil sloshes around the oceans, parked on ghost tankers heading to “Unknown Asia,”“Port Said,” and “Trust Me Bro Harbor.” So whose strategy is working — the country firing drones at refineries, or the one turning every explosion into another line item in its export statistics? #war#oil#Ukraine#Russia#sanctions#fakeDemocracy 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸