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How China's import cuts importing 8.5 million barrels a day down from 12.5 million and it's large oil reserve will keep oil prices low

07/15/2026

Not covered in the media for Hormuz is the combined response of US, China, India, Japan and the European Union to find alternatives to Hormuz making it less or not relevant to oil prices and oil supplies

07/10/2026

The Constructive Aspects of the situation in July 2026 from the Hormuz Crisis not covered in the Media

06/27/2026

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When the U.S. Stood With My Countrymen

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Wall Street Journal - 07.23.2015 Original article ›
Dalia Grysbauskaite, Dalia, Grysbauskaite
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This article by Lithuanian president Dalia Grysbauskaite, on the 75th anniversary of the Welles declaration points to a path for other Eastern European countries seeking membership in the new Europe. The declaration by Sumner Welles, acting Secretary of State, on July 23, 1940, stated that the U.S. did not recognize the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. It says the other Eastern European states such as Ukraine need to follow Lithuania's example to fight corruption, transform their economies, and create a foundation for the future, for integration into the European Union.
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How War in Ukraine Could Feed Through to Breakfast

  
WSJ - 03.01.2022 Original article ›
Carol Ryan

Biden’s Poland Visit Spotlights Weapons, Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine

  
WSJ - 03.25.2022 Original article ›
Tarini Parti
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US makes a sharp increase in defense and humanitarian assistance to Poland. President Biden visits the US 82nd Airborne Division in Rzeszow, Poland.

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Symbolism or Strategy? Ukraine Battles to Retain Small Gains.

  
NYTimes.com - 03.20.2024 Original article ›
Andrew E. Kramer, Maria Varenikova

Ukraine war: Kyiv’s emergence from the shadow of war

  
BBC News - 06.03.2022 Original article ›
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This BBC report shows the city of Kviv gradually coming back to life. The spirit of the Ukrainian people, the support of Poland and Czech Republic and Slovakia, other neighboring countries, and the help of the US in sending timely aid played a big role in bringing life back to Kviv.

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Germany Blocks NATO Ally From Transferring Weapons to Ukraine

  
WSJ - 01.21.2022 Original article ›
Michael R. Gordon In Washington, Bojan Pancevski In Berlin

Pence Looks to Reassure Ukraine, Baltics of U.S. Support

  
WSJ - 02.19.2017 Original article ›
Nathan Hodge In Moscow, Anton Troianovski, Julian E. Barnes In Munich

The Drone Factories Fueling Russia’s Unprecedented Assaults on Ukraine

  
WSJ - 07.10.2025 Original article ›
Matthew Luxmoore, Jane Lytvynenko
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Report that shows 24000 drones in Jan-July 2025 and 728 on July 10, as Russian factories turn out more drones in a day by July 2025 than it turned out in a month in the earlier period of the war. Drones now commonplace on Ukrainian skies. 

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WSJ News Exclusive | Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says

  
WSJ - 02.26.2023 Original article ›
Michael R. Gordon, Warren P. Strobel
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The question whether the source of the coronavirus that led to deaths of more than 1 million Americans is a lab leak at a Wuhan lab in China is still being checked. The Energy Department says that with  "low confidence" it emerged from a lab leak at Wuhan, China. Earlier in 2021 the FBI stated that it was the result of a lab leak not a natural transmission. The Energy Department runs many labs doing research in the field. Petroleum exports supported the allied war effort in two world wars says this report in the WSJ. Europe is shunning Russian oil after its invasion of Ukraine.

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As Europe Seeks to Move Away From Russian Gas, Which Renewables Will Benefit?

  
WSJ - 04.22.2022 Original article ›
Kim Mackrael
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The European Union is making good use of the crisis in Ukraine to ramp up its shift to renewable energy. This WSJ report shows charts of where the EU is focusing its efforts from conservation, heat pumps, hydrogen, to wind and solar. Wind and solar show massive increases by 2030. By 2030 the European Union plans to increase wind and solar energy from 20 billion cubic metres to 170 billion cubic metres according to estimates from The European Commission shown in this graph by WSJ.

By the end of 2022 two thirds of Russian natural gas imports to the EU will have been replaced and by 2030 all of such imports will be replaced. 

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Opinion | Russia Will Miss the World Order Putin Upended

  
WSJ - 07.25.2022 Original article ›
Alexander Baunov
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Was Russia better off in 2021 than after the invasion of Ukraine. Was it better for upward mobility, health, openness of the economy and growth, and standards of living. Was the US perceived as a hegemon when it also lacked control of its own companies that preferred to invest elsewhere and ignored US workers for a long time. This report in the WSJ asks whether it is not true that not just Russia, but the US, the EU, China, India, other large nations faced a world order that was in many ways difficult, not to their liking, and in some ways posed risks for their countries. 

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F.B.I. Arrests National Guardsman in Leak of Classified Documents

  
NYTimes.com - 04.14.2023 Original article ›
Haley Willis, Thomas Gibbons Neff, Aric Toler, Christiaan Triebert, Julian E. Barnes, Malachy Browne
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The FBI arrests a 21 year old member of the Massachusetts National Air Guard for the US Department of Defense documents leak. He was trained as a cyber transport systems specialist. He was assigned to the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base, part of Joint Base Cape Cod. There are units at the base that process intelligence collected from drones. Yet there is no explanation of the airman needing to have access to daily slides of the Ukraine war, much less the daily deluge of briefings at the highest level of CIA, NSA, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. This remains a question on which there are no answers.

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Opinion: Germany finally stands up to Putin's Russia | DW | 27.02.2022

  
DW.COM - 02.27.2022 Original article ›
Manuela Kasper Claridge
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The most important response in the Ukraine invasion comes with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's speech to the German parliament. Berlin will not tolerate Russia forcing states in Eastern Europe into its sphere of influence, Scholz told German parliamentarians who stood up several times to applaud. No more hesitant steps. Germany also stands with the Russian people for historical reconciliation, an important signal to the Russian people who in no way are united in support of this invasion of a neighbor and a fraternal people, Scholz stressed. Demonstrations are shown here in DW.com in St Petersburg, Russia's cultural and historic capital, with people shouting "No war!"

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Inside Chernobyl’s Hostage Crisis - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts

  
WSJ - 03.20.2022 Original article ›
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This WSJ podcast looks at the Chernobyl nuclear site, the place where a nuclear disaster happened in 1986. About 200 Ukraine workers are at the plant. The plant was taken over by Russian forces on the first day of the war. WSJ reporters talked to workers at the plant. To protect against the nuclear contamination a giant structure of steel and concrete was built around the plant. Since 1986 the plant is completely closed down. The job of workers is to keep the nuclear waste safe underground. This report says the 12 hour shift crew was not allowed to leave and is working for days under considerable fatigue and stress. 

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Khan faces ‘grave difficulties’ as he takes on role of Pakistan PM

  
The Guardian - 04.10.2022 Original article ›
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This article in The Guardian on Pakistan's economy was written over 3 years ago and many of the problems in the economy shown here have increased with the pandemic and the war in Ukraine's effect on food supplies and inflation. New governments in 2022 will face economic difficulties that are worsening in many developing economies. Foreign currency reserves were at $21 billion in March 2022, with total imports of $56 billion in the 2021 fiscal year according to the World Bank. Surging inflation and drop in the value of the currency in 2022 are creating new difficulties in an already difficult situation making good governance for the economy a major priority.

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China, one cold winter and the origins of Britain’s fuel crisis

  
The Times - 10.07.2021 Original article ›
Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor
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Shortages of natural gas lead to a 40% rise in prices. China is bidding high for gas supplies as it faces shortages of natural gas for heating during the coming winter. The UK and Europe also face shortages. Russia has the largest reserves of natural gas and is by far the largest producer. The start of the undersea Nordstream 2 pipeline avoids use of existing Russian pipeline through Ukraine. It is seen as a way to bring in more supplies to Europe.

Australia is another large producer of natural gas. China is now changing its import ban of Australian coal and natural gas as it faces a cold winter.

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Opinion | Biden Riffs on Armageddon

  
WSJ - 10.07.2022 Original article ›
The Editorial Board
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This editorial in the WSJ shows the conduct of president Biden to keep all sides of the picture in consideration to bring a peaceful end to the Ukraine war with so far horrendous casualties on all sides, without escalation to new levels. These threats of escalation include nuclear threats. In this sense president Biden has serious responsibilities on behalf of the world separate from opinion on either side of the war, so does Mr. Jinping and Mr. Modi, and the leaders of other parts of the world who have not created the events for this conflict and represent a large part of the world and its peoples who are directly affected and want no further escalation period.

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Macron calls Putin over fears Russia is weaponising captured nuclear plant

  
The Guardian - 08.19.2022 Original article ›
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The danger of the nuclear plant at Zaporizhzhia being taken off the Ukrainian grid by Russia is that it would then have to be cooled with backup systems which are not as reliable. It was the meltdown of the nuclear reactor after a tsunami that caused the disaster at Fukushima, Japan. President Macron called Putin about this and Putin asks the International Atomic Energy Agency to send its team to the plant in his response. Large scale contamination would result in Europe if the plants cooling systems failed during the nuclear plant being taken off the Ukrainian grid and shutdown. In normal times this plant provides one fifth of the electricity supply in Ukraine.

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Keir Starmer on the world stage – in pictures

  
The Guardian - 07.12.2024 Original article ›
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Asked about his meeting with President Joe Biden Starmer says he was in good form and mentally agile, and covering topics in pace. The meeting lasted for an hour. Here is what Starmer said about Biden- “No, we had a really good bilateral yesterday. We were billed for 45 minutes, we went on for the best part of an hour,” he said. “We went through a huge number of issues at pace, he was actually on really good form.”

Starmer said: Biden was “absolutely across all the detail” in discussions on issues including Ukraine, Gaza and European relations, as well as defence issues around the Nato summit.

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Keir Starmer's ad hoc alliance could still struggle to materialise

  
BBC News - 03.15.2025 Original article ›
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British efforts to support Ukraine reach a peace settlement.

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Davos: Germany's Merz says old world order 'unraveling'

  
dw.com - 01.22.2026 Original article ›
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German chancellor Merz says the old order is unraveling. He says -

"We have entered an era of great power politics," Merz said. "The new world of the great powers is founded upon power, strength and when necessary, force. It is not a cozy place."    

The German chancellor says Russia's invasion on Ukraine is the beginning of a "new era, but change runs much deeper."

"China, with strategic foresight, has worked its way into the ranks of the great powers," Merz says. He said Washington is reacting to these challenges from these other "great powers" by radically reshaping its foreign and security policy."

"Europe [and its] like-minded partners must stand closer together. European countries must do more to make their economies competitive and to invest massively in our ability to defend ourselves."

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Ukraine Voters Weigh In on Orange Revolution

  
Wall Street Journal - 01.14.2010 Original article ›
Alan Cullison, Alan, Cullison, James Marson, James, Marson

Toppled in Ukraine but Nearing a Comeback

  
New York Times - 01.15.2010 Original article ›
Clifford J. Levy, Clifford, J., Levy

For Kremlin, Ukraine Election Cuts Two Ways

  
New York Times - 02.09.2010 Original article ›
Clifford J. Levy, Clifford, J., Levy

Can Ukraine Say 'Ni' to Political Squabbles?

  
BusinessWeek - 01.14.2010 Original article ›
James M. Gomez, James, M., Gomez, Daryna Krasnolutska, Daryna, Krasnolutska

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