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US urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries (www.ft.com)
submitted 7 months ago by rinze@infosec.pub to c/europe@feddit.de
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The US has urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, warning that the drone strikes risk driving up global oil prices and provoking retaliation, according to three people familiar with the discussions. [...]

One person said that the White House had grown increasingly frustrated by brazen Ukrainian drone attacks that have struck oil refineries, terminals, depots and storage facilities across western Russia, hurting its oil production capacity.

Russia remains one of the world’s most important energy exporters despite western sanctions on its oil and gas sector. Oil prices have risen about 15 per cent this year, to $85 a barrel, pushing up fuel costs just as US President Joe Biden begins his campaign for re-election.

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[–] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The US government had nothing to gain by destroying that pipeline.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is not to say that they did do the bombing, but the US had and has an economic interest in Europe buying US controlled oil and gas over buying Russian controlled oil and gas.

[–] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes that's true, but I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the claim that the US government destroyed Nord Stream to force the EU to buy LNG from US companies.

[–] brainrein@feddit.de 1 points 7 months ago

No, of course not, America would never force anybody to buy their stuff.

They destroyed NordStream to support Europe in becoming independent of cheap Russian gas.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago

That's just not true.

(I still don't think they did it, but I do think they cheered when it happened.)