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Since November, China has replaced India as Russia's top seaborne customer as Western sanctions and pressure to strike a trade deal forced New Delhi to cut Russian oil imports. Moscow is forced to sell oil to Beijing at prices $9-11 a barrel below the benchmark Brent.
4:12 PM · Feb 16, 2026
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The Rockies have had jack shit for snow all winter. It has also just been rather warm all fall and winter. There's going to be a lot of fires in the west this summer if things don't turn around fast.
There's a reason I completely gave up on trying to have rational conversations with her and eventually just unfriended her from Facebook. Arguing with an abject moron is pointless.
So I have brought up my dumbfuck MAGA cousin before. This is the sort of brilliance we are dealing with. My wife screenshot a Facebook post said cousin made. I figured Surly really needed to see this.
Same deal with my wife's stepmom. She was born in El Paso, but her parents were born in Juarez. She's MAGA because my FIL is. She's not necessarily a terrible person, but is pretty self absorbed and checked out on anything going on. If it isn't on Fox News she likely hasnt seen it unless her kids told her. I think we've seen some cracks over the past month or so due to ICE, but we aren't holding our breath.