As Gas Spirals, Can Europe Divorce Russia?

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🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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We’re nearly one month into Russia’s war against Ukraine. Officials from Moscow and Kyiv have met intermittently for peace talks that have so far failed to bring a cessation of hostilities. Geopolitical tensions are once again showing up in energy markets. Several European Union member states are pushing for a fifth round of sanctions on Russia. Cutting off Russian crude would theoretically take 4% to 5% of global supply off the market. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia, under increasing pressure to ramp up its output, is calling on Western allies to do more to help counter attacks by Iran-backed Yemeni Houthis on critical oil infrastructure. Investors are also weighing a rise in COVID-19 cases in Europe stemming from an emerging variant. Izabella Kaminska, former editor of The Financial Times’ FT Alphaville blog and founder of The Blind Spot, joins Emil Kalinowski to discuss the latest geopolitical and financial headlines, with a focus on media and propaganda surrounding the war in Eastern Europe. Want to submit questions? Drop them right here on the Exchange: https://rvtv.io/3Jww8pv Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.4	Welcome to Real Vision's daily briefing. We are coming to you live from London in the Cayman
0:41.4	Islands. My name is Miel Kalanowski, but much more importantly, we're joined by with Isabella
0:48.2	Kaminsky Isabella in the summer of 2020, where you approached by a source who said,
0:55.4	quote, we are sitting on the precipice of biological warfare and nobody in the media will cover the story.
1:04.8	Yes, I was indeed. Now stick with me ladies and gentlemen, we're not going to be focusing on
1:11.2	biological warfare, but we're going to be talking about information, how we consume it as
1:17.7	investors, as well as how it's disseminated. I can't be a better person to talk to. Then Isabella.
1:24.8	Isabella, you pursued this story. You went back, you found intrigue from the cold war, biological
1:34.2	research facilities from around the world, dual use technology. It was a great story, but I believe
1:43.9	it was never published until very, very recently. Tell us a little bit about how people probably know
1:51.0	you, what position you're in right now and a little bit of the background of the story.
1:56.5	So I'm formerly the editor of FT Alphabet at the Financial Times and I'm now heading up my
2:04.2	own venture, the Blind Spot, the hyphenblindspot.com. So I've recently gone independent and I guess
2:14.3	Alphabet was the sort of place where we could experiment a lot with the type of reporting we did
2:21.1	and it was for a long time I would say and I think I still maintain that it was the best place
2:26.2	in journalism to work and we really were able to push the envelope on all sorts of interesting
2:34.1	ways of doing journalism. But I think times have kind of evolved. I think recently I think this
2:41.8	last week even the New York Times sort of put out an opinion piece saying even the New York Times
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