{"id":13182,"date":"2024-03-21T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13182"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:47:29","slug":"the-kremlin-has-never-been-richer-thanks-to-a-us-strategic-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13182","title":{"rendered":"The Kremlin has never been richer \u2013 thanks to a US strategic partner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/29\/europe\/russia-sanctions-putin-ukraine-economy-intl\/index.html?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a>&nbsp;is entering its third year of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">war in Ukraine<\/a>&nbsp;with an unprecedented amount of cash in government coffers, bolstered by a record $37 billion of crude oil sales to India last year, according to new analysis, which concludes that some of the crude was refined by India and then exported to the United States as oil products worth more than $1 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This flow of payments, ultimately to Moscow\u2019s benefit, comes from India increasing its purchases of Russian crude by over 13 times its pre-war amounts, according to the analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), exclusively shared with CNN. It amounts to US strategic partner New Delhi stepping in to replace crude purchases by Western buyers, reduced by sanctions over Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, the analysis said.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/kremlin-never-richer-thanks-us-080408989.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/kremlin-never-richer-thanks-us-080408989.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Russia is entering its third year of war in Ukraine with an unprecedented amount of cash in government coffers, bolstered by a record $37 billion of crude oil sales to India last year, according to new analysis, which concludes that some of the crude was refined by India and then exported to the United States as oil products worth more than $1 billion.<br \/>\nThis flow of payments, ultimately to Moscow\u2019s benefit, comes from India increasing its purchases of Russian crude by over 13 times its pre-war amounts, according to the analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), exclusively shared with CNN. It amounts to US strategic partner New Delhi stepping in to replace crude purchases by Western buyers, reduced by sanctions over Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, the analysis said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/kremlin-never-richer-thanks-us-080408989.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,924,217,728,272,355,83,314,1545,315,1001,311,619,158],"class_list":["post-13182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-eastern-europe","tag-economics","tag-europe","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-india","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13183,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13182\/revisions\/13183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}