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US Treasury authorizes transactions with major Russian banks (ofac.treasury.gov)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Makes no sense when the US is a net exporter. Then again something similar happened before https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-arabia-imports-record-russian-fuel-oil-june-trade-grows-2023-07-13/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

It's kind of weird, Canada is the same way. We export energy in the west, but we import in the east. There's no infrastructure to ship energy across the country.