It was not an energy ceasefire. It was a gift to Putin. A White House official told Axios that, as Trump understands it, the term means only that Russia and Ukraine stop attacking each other’s oil refineries—and that this is what Washington expects Ukraine to do. Ukraine has one refinery, while Russia has 38, of which 21 have been targeted by Ukrainian drones.



Well the problem with a global economy is there actually aren’t that many people to purchase from you. If you lose your biggest customer there isn’t one up the street.
China has been trying to decouple just as hard as the west has from it. They can only get so far from one another.