#Russia; Everyone profiting from sanctions but the Kremlin. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution.
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🗓️ 9 February 2023
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#Russia; Everyone profiting from sanctions but the Kremlin. Michael Bernstam, Hoover Institution.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/lost-russian-oil-revenue-is-bonanza-shippers-refiners-2023-02-08/
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| 0:30.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:41.4 | Our sanctions working to pressure Russia to back off from its aggression in Ukraine. European |
| 0:47.6 | war asks, all these sanctions are they going to lead to a better day? Right now, Royce |
| 0:53.8 | is reporting right now. Russian state oil revenues fall 40% on sanctions. Also, tanker owners |
| 1:00.8 | post record profits, traders and bankers say, also India trying to get cheaper oil, putting |
| 1:06.4 | these three things together. This is my colleague Michael Bernstom of the Hoover institution |
| 1:11.4 | who's been my guide on these matters for some time. Right now, what's changed since |
| 1:15.6 | Michael and I last spoke happily a week past is that there is a new cap on refined products |
| 1:23.7 | out of Russia. Refined products would be diesel fuel, jet fuel and heavy oil products necessary |
| 1:31.3 | for industry. However, this adds to the opportunity for traders and tanker owners and especially |
| 1:39.2 | India. How that happens is Michael's explanation. Good evening, Michael. This is exactly as you |
| 1:44.6 | said, Russia is going to lose money and everybody else is going to gain money. How is it that |
| 1:51.0 | India and China are benefiting from this? The sanctions are designed in a very brilliant |
| 2:00.1 | way. There's a total oil output available to the world, to all countries including the |
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