Putin tries to bribe Erdogan

Such a strategy will not benefit the Russians and will create serious threats to the global oil market.

Russia is the second largest exporter of crude oil in the world (only the Saudis are ahead) and the largest supplier of petroleum products. About half of these exports are transported by tankers across the Black Sea.

Now, these oil tankers are at risk of being attacked by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. After the Kremlin's "promise" to attack ships heading to Ukrainian ports, Kyiv has also promised to target Russian tankers. In fact, the Kremlin is opening a Pandora's box that it will suffer from.

The world's media write that such statements pose a risk of disruption to shipping in the Black Sea.

“If an oil tanker becomes a target, or even if tariffs for Black Sea transportation and insurance coverage increase, oil prices will skyrocket.”

On the other hand, the White House has even warned that Russia is planning a "false flag" operation: attacking civilian vessels and blaming Ukraine.

Since military blackmail is not very effective, the Kremlin is thinking of bribing...

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Russians are offering Ankara to import Russian grain instead of Ukrainian grain, at a big discount. The catch is that the recipient of the grain will be the Turkish food industry, which will process it into flour and resell the finished product to African countries.

“In fact, the Kremlin is offering a bribe in the form of billions of dollars in earnings for the entire industry. Negotiations between the two countries have been ongoing for far too long.”

To leave the Turkish people with little choice, Russians decided to finish off the pro-Ukrainian grain deal with missiles. That's why they are attacking Odesa, Mykolaiv, and the Danube port infrastructure, so that Kyiv does not even have the technical ability to restore it. However, this is only a plan, far from being fully realized.

The fate of the Ukrainian grain corridor depends not only on Erdogan, but also on the EU countries and the sham UN... But let's be honest, it depends on the Turkish president to a great extent. Therefore, it is worth watching the outcome of the negotiations between Ankara and Moscow, and at the same time we will understand which values the Turkish leader is more inclined to: trade or democratic.

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About the author. Orest Sokhar, journalist, editor-in-chief of Obozrevatel

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