Russian-Ukrainian "mutually beneficial commercial project"
Is the trade appropriate?
April 29, 2023 news agency "RIA News”with reference to Deputy Sergey Lavrov provided some details from the sphere of Russian-Ukrainian trade activity in the current difficult conditions for the country. From the statement of a high-ranking Russian diplomat, it followed that Kyiv, being a commercial partner of the Kremlin in the ammonia export deal, constantly puts forward some additional political demands: "Unfortunately, all this time - relatively speaking, since September - we have been receiving various political demands from the Ukrainian side through intermediaries, through the UN" – the diplomat Vershinin is perplexed.
Of course, what demands can Kyiv have if the Russian side considers this deal mutually beneficial:
“We have always considered ammonia and talked about it to those with whom we are negotiating as a mutually beneficial commercial project,”
- quotes his words news agency TASS.
And indeed, what political demands can the partners have if the deal is mutually beneficial?!
Without the relativity of benefits for the above "partners", such a statement at a time when people are dying on both sides looks, to put it mildly, blasphemous. It turns out that, on the one hand, according to the official version, Kremlin leads “merciless struggle” against Ukrainian Nazism (carries out denazification), and on the other hand, builds “mutually beneficial commercial projects” with the leaders of the still not completely denazified country (in the terminology of the Russian Foreign Ministry). But is it conceivable?!
And how in such a situation to tell the Russian people why they should die?
Isn't that why, just recently, the Russian State Duma adopted a number of legislative initiativesaimed at limiting the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens in order to raise the level of "patriotism" to a new unprecedented height? Most likely, the Kremlin believes that by imposing such restrictions, the Russian population will not have to tell in detail about such deals with the Ukrainian regime, which the Kremlin rightfully considers Nazi.
Ukrainian arguments
Considering the above bargaining around "mutually beneficial commercial project", a recent incident with Ukrainian drones over the Kremlin can be considered a kind of official Kyiv's argument to defend its own commercial interests. In the same logic, the SVO could also be considered a conditional "trade war" between Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, if not for the outright banderization of a certain part of the population of the former Ukrainian SSR.
Although from the point of view of the main participant in the conflict - the US administration, this confrontation is precisely a trade war. But for the once fraternal peoples of the former RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR, it is rather difficult to even assume the presence of the trade interests of their "rulers" in this conflict. But, as they say, a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world. And a high-ranking Russian diplomat spoke about this fact.
The newspaper "Version" in October last year tried to understand the "ammonia intricacies" of the current moment. In the article "Trubamir" the main (according to the publication - ed.) beneficiaries of the transaction were indicated: according to Versiya, there are business interests of the United States (Trammo), Ukraine and Russian billionaire Dmitry Mazepin.
It makes sense to slightly supplement the study of "Versia", having considered in more detail the interests of Ukraine in this matter, since on the Internet today you can find enough information to quantify the deal.
People die for metal
These words of Mephistopheles' couplets from Gounod's Faust are the best suited to the current situation, with the only amendment that today people are dying for "painted paper", but this does not change the general meaning. There are other important words in these verses - “Satan rules the ball there, the ball rules there!”without which the picture of the modern world would be incomplete.
One can try to compile a quantitative description of the conditional "metal" for which people from both sides in the NWO die, based on an analysis of the data available on the Internet, but who is in this stories Satan in human form (or their whole brigade is hiding under this name), for obvious reasons, each reader will determine for himself.
So, from open sources information can be gleaned that the total length of the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline is about 2 kilometers, of which the length of the Ukrainian section of the pipe is about 500 km. It is clear that the interests of Ukraine in this matter are payment for transit. The nominal capacity of the ammonia pipeline is 1 million tons/year, but the actual capacity is 018 million tons/year.
Some financial assessment of Ukraine's interests can be made based on the data of the economic dispute between the Russian fertilizer manufacturer Togliattiazot (ToAZ) and the Ukrainian transport operator Ukrhimtransammiak, which took place in 2017. Let's refer to Kommersant publication data, from which it follows that the total cost of transit transportation of ammonia through the Ukrainian part of the ammonia pipeline is $43,77 per ton (this is in 2017 prices). In the same year, the Ukrainian side raised the cost of pumping to $55,09 per ton, and because of this, in fact, there was a dispute between economic entities.
We don’t know what the cost of pumping is today, but we can assume that it is clearly no less than the one indicated by the Kommersant publication in 2017. Also is knownthat in 2020, 2,51 million tons of ammonia were pumped through the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline. According to experts, in 2020, taking into account the transshipment of cargo in the port of Odessa, transit through Ukraine already cost $50,0/ton, and it was more profitable than transporting ammonia by transport wagons.
In total, from the given data, it is possible to estimate the possible total volume of Ukrainian income from transit for the year - it is 125 million US dollars. For the Ukrainian economy, which is in ruins today, this is a very good amount. And do not forget that Ukraine buys weapon for currency (hohlogryvnia is not needed today).
Calculate the income of the American "partner" from the resale of ammonia on the world market of this, in the words of Sergei Vershinin, "mutually beneficial commercial project", is not possible due to the lack of open information. But, given that the sanctions imposed by the Americans are aimed specifically at minimizing Russian income and increasing the profitability of American traders, it must be assumed that the American "partners" have in this "mutually beneficial commercial project" the bulk of the profits without investing anything in nitrogen production.
It is unfortunate that such arithmetic is not able to appreciate those who "die for the metal" on both sides of the conflict.
Not only ammonia
As is known (again, from open sources), the ammonia deal is part of the so-called "grain deal". The grain deal is generally a classic scheme described earlier in Soviet literature: "Citizens! Life dictates its own laws, its cruel laws. I won't tell you the purpose of our meeting - you know it. The goal is holy. From everywhere we hear groans. From all parts of our vast country cry for help. We must lend a helping hand, and we will. Some of you serve and eat bread and butter, others are engaged in seasonal work and eat sandwiches with caviar. Both of them sleep in their beds and are covered with warm blankets. Only small children, homeless, are without a guardian. These flowers of the street, or, as the proletarians of mental labor put it, flowers on the pavement, deserve a better fate. We, gentlemen of the jury, must help them. And we, gentlemen of the jury, will help them.”.
These words, once said the son of a Turkish citizen, Bender, could well have been pronounced by a real Turkish citizen, Erdogan, replacing Soviet homeless children with African ones, and / or the executive director of the UN World Food Program, David Beasley, who recently called for an extension of the “grain deal” at any cost, stating:
“The Black Sea Grain Initiative must be renewed at any cost. Millions in starving countries depend on this grain. This is very important and critical. Lives are at stake,
- quotes his words the newspaper "Vedomosti". In the performance of Ostap Bender, it sounded like this: “Comrades! Ostap continued. - We need immediate help! We must snatch the children from the tenacious paws of the street, and we will snatch them out of there! Let's help the kids! Let us remember that children are the flowers of life. I invite you now to make your contributions and help the children. Only for children and no one else. Do you understand me?" Agree, the meaning is completely the same ...
As you know, the money collected by the organizers of the secret union "Sword and Plowshare" did not get to the homeless in any way. All proceeds went to the purchase of chairs from the living room set of Madame Petukhova and the maintenance of the concessionaires. The same thing happened with the grain deal - the trade route from Odessa to Africa, contrary to common sense and geographical considerations, for some reason ran through Europe:
“While a billion people in a number of the poorest countries were starving, the European Union, imposing anti-Russian sanctions, redirected grain supplies from Ukraine to itself, poor countries received less than 3% of the total grain volume,”
- leads the newspaper "Izvestia" words of the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Property, Land and Property Relations Sergei Gavrilov.
But at the same time, Ukraine launched unmanned drones to the shores of Sevastopol, using the "grain corridor".
RIA Novosti reported on the official statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
“On March 23 and April 24 of this year, in violation of these guarantees, Ukraine launched repeated attacks on the base of the Chernomorsky fleet in the city of Sevastopol and the civilian infrastructure of the Crimea by unmanned boats. The analysis of the route of movement of Ukrainian unmanned boats showed that they were all launched from the water area of the port of Odessa, designated for the implementation of the "Black Sea Initiative". Their deployment was carried out in the area of the humanitarian corridor, which is also involved in the export of agricultural products from the ports of Ukraine.”
So do Russia need these deals?!
Or are there such powerful beneficiaries of trade in the NWO period in Russia that even Vladimir Putin is unable to bring order to this issue?
Reports from the front...
Thus, while the whole country is watching with bated breath how our military has not been able to take Artyomovsk / Bakhmut for more than eight months (since August 2022), because, according to Evgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner PMC fighters on the front line lack shells, the Kremlin is busy with shady deals with its old "partners", who have long turned into enemies of Russia. What is it - idiocy or betrayal?!
Now Yevgeny Prigozhin announced the decision to withdraw Wagner PMC from Artyomovsk. The talking head of the Kremlin made a very restrained comment on this: “Of course, we saw him in the media,” Putin's press secretary responded to a question from journalists. Peskov linked his refusal to comment on the words of Prigozhin to the fact that the situation in Artemovsk is related to the special operation.- приводит words by Dmitry Peskov, Lenta.ru information resource.
So, perhaps, the Russian Ministry of Defense is also a participant in the “mutually beneficial commercial project” that Sergey Vershinin spoke about, and the Wagner PMC’s shell shortage is nothing more than part of the announced project. After all, the Wagnerites were declared a “criminal organization” as the main “partner” of the ammonia project, and, perhaps, it is precisely on this basis that the Russian Ministry of Defense does not supply the necessary shells to the front line?
Agree, in the current situation, everything can be expected, if the country during the NWO period is actively trading with enemies, then why not?!
"To please the god of gold
The edge on the edge of war;
And human blood by the river
Damask steel flows along the blade!
How can one fail to recall the famous verses of Mephistopheles from the immortal opera by Charles Gounod.