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Our impulse is to think Khodaryonok is putting himself too far out on a limb to survive on
Russian tv, then again there is this from the bottom of the article i posted to consider

Russia media watcher Julia Davis tweeted ..

Many are wondering: why is Khodaryonok allowed to keep talking on Russian TV where any dissent is discouraged? Because his words don't harm the regime. To the contrary, they help temper the expectations, while other pundits promise fast, easy victories.https://t.co/ynLM15FwqE

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) May 17, 2022

.. after his latest appearance: "Many are wondering: why is Khodaryonok allowed to keep talking on Russian TV where any dissent is discouraged? Because his words don't harm the regime. To the contrary, they help temper the expectations, while other pundits promise fast, easy victories."
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=168892684

"This ex commander is going to be an ex tv guy very soon."

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And on the oil front. US oil instead of getting back the production levels of pre covid, decided to give the profits back to their main shareholders (themselves) and won't budge to help our own country. In the meantime, opec alliance with the two main saudi producers have said fuck you to the rest of the world and went with 40 billion pure quarterly profit and said they will not pump their normal targets...
Biden keeps releasing reserves and the oil companies have sucked up that profit as well and now it will cost Americans even more tax dollars to pay the 5 dollar gallon of fuel prices to restock. The US was paying between 2.25 and 3.00 before.
Opec and others can easily make up the 7% ru losses, but won't do it. ru gas is almost zero input for US before the Ukraine war.

We are being openly raped by big energy.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/theres-no-relief-in-sight-for-high-gas-prices-212218396.html

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are two countries that could easily pump more if they chose to. But they’re not. In fact, the OPEC alliance to which the two countries belong is pumping less oil than its most recent targets call for. Profits, meanwhile, pile up. Saudi oil giant Saudi Aramco just posted a huge $40 billion quarterly profit, benefiting, like other oil companies, from prices that have nearly doubled in the last 12 months.
The U.S. could see a modest uptick in oil production

Here in the United States, there is likely to be a modest increase in oil production. Rig counts are up and forecasters expect U.S. production to rise by about 1 million barrels per day, to about 12 million. But that would still be a million barrels short of peak production, which occurred at the end of 2019, right before the COVID pandemic hit.

The U.S. energy industry got crushed during the COVID downturn, with oil prices falling so deeply they briefly turned negative in 2020. And that came after several years of overproduction. Companies went bust, investors lost billions, workers left the field and surviving producers now focus on sending cash flow back to investors instead of adding new capacity.