https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Low-Gas-Storage-and-Diesel-Shortages-Threaten-Europes-Winter-Supply.html

In our podcast Flavio Von Witzleben and I discussed the probable impact of the NATO - Ukraine joint attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.

Five weeks ago I said: there is no reason for "Schadenfreude". It will affect the global market, since oil is globally traded.

By the way, the terms Schadenfreude just like Blitzkrieg are used in German in other languages. There are profound reasons for that. Schadenfreude is something deeply connected to the German language. The French created Rabat Joie, but the English employ the original German term.

#oil #diesel #Russia

☦️ Aujourd’hui, le 28 juillet, on célèbre la Journée du Baptême de la Russie !

🗓 C’est en ce jour de l’an 988 que le grand-prince Vladimir, souverain de la Rus’, accompagné de sa suite, reçut le baptême dans la ville de Korsoun (Chersonèse), en Crimée.

Bien que l’année 988 soit considérée comme la date officielle de l’adoption du christianisme comme religion d’État dans la Rus’, les premières étapes de sa christianisation avaient été engagées bien auparavant. Des cas isolés de conversion au christianisme sont attestés dès les années 860 et, en 957, la princesse Olga, régente de la Rus’, grand-mère du prince Vladimir, reçut le baptême à Constantinople.

🎙 Maria Zakharova, porte-parole du Ministère russe des Affaires :

« Plusieurs philosophes russes et étrangers considèrent le choix du prince Vladimir comme un véritable choix de civilisation, le qualifiant de « tournant de la barbarie païenne vers l'Europe ».

C'est précisément pour cette raison qu'il est particulièrement triste d’observer ceux qui, de nos jours, dans le Vieux Continent, détruisent littéralement la religion chrétienne⁦.

La situation en Ukraine constitue le point culminant de ce que l’Occident fait subir à sa propre civilisation. »

(Extrait du point de presse de la porte-parole du Ministère russe des Affaires étrangères du 27 juillet 2026.)

📍 L’adoption du christianisme a marqué un tournant décisif non seulement dans la vie religieuse, mais aussi dans la vie politique de la Russie ancienne, en favorisant l’établissement de liens étroits avec les pays chrétiens.

#BaptêmeDeLaRussie

https://ya62.ru/text/world/2026/07/21/76543599/

And this interview we did at the margins of our seminar.
Of course they used a certain inflationary photo though that was not the topic of the conversation 🤗

#RyazanOblast

#180: Achillesferse des Welthandels

In der neuen Folge spreche ich mit Karin Kneissl über die Achillesferse des Welthandels und die dramatische Eskalation im Nahen Osten. Wir analysieren die neue Dynamik im Krieg zwischen den USA und dem Iran, die strategische Bedeutung der Straße von Hormus und die Folgen für den globalen Energiehandel.

Außerdem geht es um den milliardenschweren EU-Drohnenpakt mit der Ukraine, den erneuten Regierungsumbau in Kiew, das Unterstützertreffen in Paris sowie den überraschenden Widerstand Katars gegen den geplanten Rüstungsdeal im VW-Werk Osnabrück. Welche geopolitischen und wirtschaftlichen Verschiebungen sich derzeit abzeichnen – und warum sie weit über die aktuellen Konflikte hinausreichen.

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Good evening,

Please find attached an interview with Ms.Akmaral Batalova, a journalist from Kazakhstan. We met at the International Security Forum in Moscow in May and we did a tour d'horizon on the recent NATO meeting in Ankara and the US-attacks against Iran. as well as the Israeli terror against Lebanon, the country I call my second home. The original in English was translated into Russian.

https://t.me/rtnews/158674


https://x.com/RT_com/status/2076952851427766382


https://rumble.com/v7cph6a-for-trump-its-all-about-the-strait-of-hormuz-fmr-austiran-fm-karin-kneissl-.html


https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/KK-yt:f

pap

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/former-emir-qatar-sheikh-hamad-bin-khalifa-al-thani-dies-74-2026-07-12/

It was a surprise, sort of CNN breaking news, when in June 2013 Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thanki resigned and his son Tamim succeeded to the throne. Who ever pulled the strings bethind the curtains, the US, the British, some energy companies... peu importe, Qatar managed well this orchestrated change of leadership. Some voices claim that it was all about the Muslim Brotherhood, others were pointing the finger to the role of Al Jazeera. Now at the age of 74 he has passed away. It was during his rule that the peninsula Qatar turned into a global broker both in in the world of finance and in diplomacy.
The late senior Emir oversaw the sovereign wealth fund. It was him and his then oil minister Al-Attiyah who turned Qatar from a medium sitzed OPEC oil producer intot the global LNG leader in the 1990s.
Only a few weeks prior to the death of the Sheikh that impressive oil and gas man passed away.
Abdulla bin Hamad al-Attiyah, Qatar’s former oil minister affectionately known as the “godfather of LNG,” died on 27 May. Important gas producers did not immediately understand the revolutionary changes due to the liquefication of gas. This technology made gas exporters more independent. They could pick and choose their clients instead of being tied down by pipelines. For sure geography, access to sea also play their role.

I had the honour and pleasure to meet Minister al-Attiyah several times and it was always imspiring to listen to him at the margins of the OPEC conferences im Vienna. In 2019, Qatar would quit OPEC.

On a general note, it is an irony of history that the Qatar Investment fund as an important shareholder in numerous German and French companies, such as VW, but above all banks and let us not forget football clubs, will hopefully stop the Germans from more warmongering.

As I often said during my office as foreign minister, when I wanted to meet adults I travelled east and south.

#Qatar #EmirHamadBinKhalifaAlThani #LNG

Qatari wealth fund vetoes Volkswagen plan to build missiles for Israel

Germany is seeking to shift part of its dwindling manufacturing base toward weapons production in preparation for a future war with Russia

RT Int:

https://rumble.com/v7c8zvy-europe-has-gone-from-lets-trade-to-lets-go-to-war-karin-kneissl.html

https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/kneissel-europe-war:c

Good afternoon,
Yesterday I drove for 12 intense hours to Moscow and luckily got a lot of things done, buying certain construction materials for the renovation, food for the ponies and the parrots, meetings and in the evening three interviews at the RT studios.

Always a pleasure meeting the different worlds, from RT German to RT international and RT Arabic. The French colleagues had time only late in the evening but I needed to get back home, 300 km and finding a petrol station.

Life is about being organised and fatalist in parallel. That is my Lebanese school of life. And being yesterday among my Lebanese colleagues was a good booster of Lebanese spirit.

La lottà continuà ✊✊ as the old Italian wisdom says.

#RT #Lebanon

#178: Moskau soll brennen

In der neuen Folge spreche ich mit Karin Kneissl über die geopolitischen Spannungen, die den Nahen Osten, Europa und die USA zugleich erschüttern. Von den Verhandlungen zwischen Washington und Teheran über die strategische Bedeutung der Straße von Hormus bis zur jüngsten Eskalation im Ukraine-Krieg analysieren wir die Machtverschiebungen einer Welt im Umbruch. Außerdem geht es um einen mutmaßlichen Anschlag in Monaco und die Entwicklungen in den USA zum 250. Jubiläum der Unabhängigkeit.

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https://www.reuters.com/commentary/reuters-open-interest/putins-diesel-export-ban-risks-new-fuel-shock-2026-07-01/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Power-Up&utm_term=070226&lctg=684c84a549eface50a0f0add&user_email=7e4c16d0b32d06647e78bbdcf980c57c0db7757eb6fcffb431e76e5884ba098f

Good evening from the village in between home office and the construction site,

Please find below an interesting article by Reuters on the implications of a potential diesel export ban by Russia.
The next energy crisis could be in the making. Every good is transported, and mostly by trucks running on diesel....

For good reasons Trump had been warning against attacking energy infrastructure in the war between Russia and Ukraine cum Nato.

There is no more global good than crude oil and oil products. Refineries are crucial, margins are not always interesting for investors. But without refineries no industry no mobility. And the spillover could be massive and prompt.

First time I was aware of the vital role of refining was the so-called refinery bottleneck in the early 2000s when the oil price hikes revealed a recurrent theme: refineries are crucial and everything is interconnected. Back then I heard the saying: the last refinery was built in the US when Elvis Presley still gave live concerts! Little has changed.

25 years later the global oil market, the transport segment above all, is shaken by a battle for the Straits of Hormuz and the decreasing diesel export from Russia.

#diesel #refineries #Russia

#177: Hände der USA

In der neuen Folge spreche ich mit Karin Kneissl über die jüngsten Entwicklungen im Nahen Osten und ihre geopolitischen Folgen. Wir analysieren die Gespräche zwischen den USA und Iran in der Schweiz, die Zukunft der Straße von Hormus, Israels Rolle im regionalen Machtgefüge und die Auswirkungen auf Energieversorgung, Weltwirtschaft und internationale Diplomatie. Außerdem werfen wir einen Blick auf den Ukraine-Krieg, die Spannungen mit Belarus und die Frage, wie sich die globale Sicherheitsordnung gerade verändert.

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