re: #80 ckkatz

Thread on some of the Ukrainian strategy that drove the Russians out of the Black Sea and then opened it up to grain exports.

Behind private button because it is a bit longish.

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. . . For global insurance companies, the*entire*Black*Sea*is*one*region”
Dmitri Alperovitch

“And if something happens in Odessa or Novorossiysk, the cost of insurance increases in the entire region at the same time,” explains Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Vaskov.

“Novorossiysk is also a huge oil transshipment. It is through this port that oil giants from the USA export Kazakh oil. This is where the “grey” export of Russian oil takes place under the guise of open brands”

This fits into my [armchair expert cherry picking] theory that underwriters control the world economy.