Those who imagine Poland is going to send 150k troops into Ukraine fail to grasp firstly they literally only have a few days of munitions and secondly a red line would be crossed whereby NATO forces would be in direct conflict with Russia. Do you not understand what that means?

Moscow is claiming that the US is planning a provocation In Ukraine using toxic chemicals.

Volkswagen China chief visits Xinjiang plant, sees no sign of forced labour.

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French inflation accelerated to a record in February.

Consumer prices jumped 7.2% from a year ago, up from 7% in January. Food and services costs were behind the increase.

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CPI in Spain rose 6.1% yoy in February, up from 5.9% in January, and above the 5.7% expected.

Yet more reality to fry western govts minds.

Russia undertook the most drilling operations for oil in more than 10 years, in 2022.

If we are to agree with the West's assertion that Bakhmut is not strategically important then the fact they are allowing huge amounts of Ukrainian forces die there, and by implication unnecessarily if not strategically important, implies that militarily they are utterly clueless.

Ukraine is currently emphasising their belief that China does not intend to arm Russia.

Ukraine continues its charm offensive with China.

Clown show on steroids:

Stoltenberg: Zelensky will be invited to the NATO summit in Vilnius in July 2023.

So Jens, how exactly do you think this might impact the Ukraine war and peace negotiations?

NATO chief: "Allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a member of our alliance" in the long term.

Jens can say such ridiculous things because he is leaving his post in the autumn.

He knows this is not a reality but can always claim that would have happened if I was still Secretary General.

The problem West faces is such throwaway remarks will have consequences.

US Crude Oil Production Fell 276K bpd In December to 12.1m bpd.

As we have stated for many months:

US DoE stated that European countries were fortunate with their energy supply this winter, next winter will be even harder.

Let's make this very clear and simple for Western Chinese experts. China didn't shutdown last yr.

Total imports and exports rose 7.7% yoy to 42.1tn yuan in 2022, RECORD HIGH

Exports rose 10.5% yoy and imports 4.3% yoy

So just to make sure you understand

2022 was a RECORD HIGH

Russian economy continues to grow:

Activity across Russia's manufacturing sector expanded at its fastest rate in six years in February, driven by upticks in production and new sales

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US has approved sale of $619m for missiles for Taiwan’s F-16 fleet in a new arms deal.

As ever China just needs to ignore this US provocation. They are desperate for China to invade or attack Taiwan to justify sanctioning Beijing and to say, see we told you China is an aggressor

Japan imported 748k barrels of Russian Sakhalin Blend crude in January, their first import of Russian crude oil in eight months.

US doesn't want to cross any red line which would see Russia change the status of the Ukraine conflict from an SMO to officially a war, for very obvious reasons.

Global South has other ideas. US continues to live in an alternative reality fuelled by hubris:

Burns, US ambassador to China, stated that China now understands that US is staying in this region, we are the leader in this region.

Lavrov:

Russia is determined to form independent payment systems and expand settlements in national currencies within the framework of BRICS, SCO and EAEU.