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  Tin poo. Like a still sting been poo that's all pale because you eat nothing but 59 cheese slices.
context: Nice. The old "you can't sanction me if I sanction myself first" tatic. I like it. Keep it up Russia 👍👍👍 >
  
  He's basically helping us audit our own rule breakers. >
  
  they just enjoy making demands and ultimatums. even if it's something that is already happening anyway. they just want to look tough and important. >
  
  You mean those implementing price caps above the market price? I am confused. >
  
  No, i'm talking about Russia. They like to announce bans on things that are already banned. they like to announce that if you don't stop resisting, they will invade you, when the invasion has already been happening for months, etc. >
  
  "Oh Yeah!? Well, I'll just sanction myself"
  -Putin >
  
  He's playing 10d chess. No one on the planet can comprehend his genius. >
  
  He's definitely pulling out his inner Wiile E Coyote >
  
  Oh no, it hurt itself in it’s confusion. >
  
  I predict this won't last.
  India/China will not buy enough to offset Europe. Even if they did, Russia will have a hard time actually transporting that volume of oil, without having pipelines built.
  So now Russia has three options. 
  Option 1. Keep pumping oil and store it. Where? It will run out of storage capacity very quickly.
  Option 2. Stop pumping oil. Oops, it's winter and the oil wells will freeze/congeal. That's incredibly expensive to fix, and maybe impossible given the equipment sanctions.
  Option 3. Just kidding Europe. Please buy my oil 😊 >
  
  What is to stop Russia from flaring off the oil at the end of the pipe? Keeps the oil in the pipes moving, still spites Europe, and helps to fix the global cooling crisis. >
  
  I've never heard of flaring oil. Flaring typically refers to burning off methane gas, when it's too big a headache to actually process it.
  I suppose they could burn crude but I'm not sure how easily that can be managed and contained, without making the local towns or oil wells uninhabitable. >
  
  A flare tower would manage it quite okay. On the other hand, the towns near the flare would be quite...umm... lets call it unpleasant. Vast quantities of thick, black, oily smoke like what appeared in Kuwait during the Gulf War would be produced as a side-effect. >
  
  They could refill the Baikal lake with oil. >
  
  Hey, if no money is better than some money....so be it Poo-tin.