India's imports of cheap Russian crude surge since Ukraine invasion
Source: Reuters
NEW DELHI, May 30 (Reuters) - India has received 34 million barrels of discounted Russian oil since Moscow invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, according to Refinitiv Eikon data, more than trebling the value of total imports from Russia, including other products, compared with the same period of 2021.
The volumes of India's seaborne oil imports from Russia exclude CPC Blend oil, which is also exported via Russia's Black Sea port, but mostly supplied by Kazakhstan's subsidiaries of western countries as transit volumes. India's oil imports from Russia have been rising since February, as Asia's third largest economy and the world's third biggest oil importer, turned to deeply discounted Russian oil, mostly Urals crude, to cut its imports bill.
The country received more than 24 million barrels of Russian crude this month, up from 7.2 million barrels in April and about 3 million in March, and is set to receive about 28 million barrels in June, according to Refinitiv Eikon oil flows. Surging energy imports helped push India's total goods imports from Russia between Feb. 24 and May 26 to $6.4 billion, compared with $1.99 billion in the same period last year, according to government figures seen by Reuters.
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Between India and China, this is why Russia is still half alive and kicking and their "supply" most likely hasn't dropped one bit (meaning the "supply/demand" thing as a supposed excuse for the high prices is nothing more than a ruse for speculative price gouging).
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…stick it to the west for supporting Ukraine.
Here is one such scumbag posting on LinkedIn. I wished for his business and livelihood to be destroyed, but the post was removed.
The context was of the Finnish PM visiting Zelenskyy in Kiev offering support and also wanting to join NATO.
Basically, he argues that Putin should not have been poked and that US hegemony needs to be checked by others like Russia. He doesn’t really give a shit about Ukraine.
I follow Scammer Payback, that dude is committed and relentless. 
The joint effort between him and other Youtubers to send Mark Rober glitter bombs has resulted in arrests.
Kolkata: 7 fake call centres busted, 3 with help from US netizen
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/7-fake-call-centres-busted-3-with-help-from-us-netizen/articleshow/91453673.cms
Here's how a group of YouTubers pranked a scam call centre in India that makes $18 million per year
https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/how-a-group-of-youtubers-pranked-a-scam-call-centre-in-india-that-earns-18-million-per-year/articleshow/91463331.cms
Scammers pay off the local police so Youtubers have learned to always include the CBI (like American FBI) and state police. FBI works with their counterparts in India to take down scammers. It requires international collaboration due to the nature of the crimes and jurisdictions of the people involved. So US law enforcement will arrest their money mules here in the US.
but India threw in with Russia-China (reference the Olympic Manifesto) and they have had partnerships like this since before the war. Nevertheless, they're gonna pay for their lack of compassion for Ukraine and all the countries that are going to starve because of Russia's treachery. If you stand with Putin, you are against most of the rest of the world, and these considerations will now factor into business. They might wonder why they are no longer on the A List.
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Those greyed out are not.
so their "sanctions" would have a minuscule effect.
(taken from here - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2898439)
What is interesting about the above is that India isn't showing up on there, meaning I expect their recent Russian oil buys in large quantities is establishing that they have shifted their contracts strategy to favor Russia now (the reason which is mentioned - the cheap price).
And doing a quick search, apparently the most used fuel in India is... drum roll.... COAL.
(from here - https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/country/IND)
But their oil imports have mostly come from the Middle East!
(also from here - https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/country/IND)
Some of the European countries, just due to the climate issue, were on the way to phasing it out although on a LOOOOOONNNNGGGG timeline (which is why you had people like Greta Thunberg and others yelling and screaming during the last climate summit).
I suppose what Russia has done has become more of a catalyst towards moving away from fossil fuels than the destructive storms or floods or wildfires and the mass die-offs of sea and wildlife due to climate change.
And along that line, you might recall the hyperbolic panic on DU surrounding the subject of "Peak Oil" and how we were pretty much there and then there would be no more left. And LOL!!!! I didn't even know DU had a Group called "Peak Oil" - https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1129 
And as a side reference, here is where the world's fossil fuel production comes from (and yup, USA! USA! USA! except for coal) -
TOTAL
BREAKDOWN
That's because Germany is the largest economy in Europe and has about 1.5 times more GDP than France.
But also because France mostly uses nuclear power for energy and they were supposed to slowly phase that out (after Chernobyl and then Fukushima-Daiichi), but that is apparently a LOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGGG range goal now.
The "energy ship" is a massive juggernaut that is going to be extremely difficult to turn around.
I suppose we could always do it the same way they did in Bartertown in "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" -