Russia destroys up to 500 ISIL oil tanker vehicles

[Will Wiley]

For the past year os so while the west has been pretending to degrade ISIL they continued to turn a blind eye to ISIL having something like 1000 oil tankers vehicles which have been transporting oil, at least until very recently.

Russia now has again taken the leading role and destroyed up to 525 of them
[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/WgYbiCGYy2c[/YOUTUBE]

One question that is yet to be answered is

who is the commodity trader breaching every known law of funding terrorism when buying ISIS crude, almost certainly with the tacit approval by various "western alliance" governments, and why is it that these governments have allowed said middleman to continue funding ISIS for as long as it has?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/most-important-question-about-isis-nobody-asking

They have also been targeting ISIL oil storage facilities
https://www.rt.com/news/322881-russia-cruise-missiles-isis/

 

[Bronzeage]

Now that Russia is no longer buying from ISIS, it's convenient to destroy their inventory.

 

[Perspicuo]

Russia did the one thing NATO would never had done (because they've had a load of time to do so and have decided not to--a whole fckn year at least).

That's NATO hindered by unbridled capitalism.

 

[Jingi walla]

Where has ISIS been selling the oil. Does anyone know?

 

[Bronzeage]

Where has ISIS been selling the oil. Does anyone know?

There is a lot of oil in the Middle East and no way to identify it. When a truck crosses a border or boundary, the truck and the oil could belong to anybody. When it pulls up to the gates of a refinery, or at a tanker port, It looks like anybody else's oil.

 

[barbos]

Where has ISIS been selling the oil. Does anyone know?

Turkey and Jordan mostly, and surprisingly Assad himself through middle parties.

 

[barbos]

Now that Russia is no longer buying from ISIS, it's convenient to destroy their inventory.

Russia have never been buying oil from anybody

 

[Jingi walla]

Where has ISIS been selling the oil. Does anyone know?

There is a lot of oil in the Middle East and no way to identify it. When a truck crosses a border or boundary, the truck and the oil could belong to anybody. When it pulls up to the gates of a refinery, or at a tanker port, It looks like anybody else's oil.

refineries just randomly let tankers,in through their gates ?

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

refineries just randomly let tankers,in through their gates ?

Sure, as long as they have the music playing, everybody thinks it's an ice cream truck.

 

[whichphilosophy]

Now that Russia is no longer buying from ISIS, it's convenient to destroy their inventory.

It's hard to know who it sold oil to but one report claims in 2014 it was selling oil to Israel as below.

http://whatsupic.com/economy-world/1407936162.html

It's possible that when capturing a region, business will go on as usual with no need to change and look for new customers.

 

[Bronzeage]

There is a lot of oil in the Middle East and no way to identify it. When a truck crosses a border or boundary, the truck and the oil could belong to anybody. When it pulls up to the gates of a refinery, or at a tanker port, It looks like anybody else's oil.

refineries just randomly let tankers,in through their gates ?

The refinery is probably dealing with a familiar person. They just don't ask where this tank full originatated.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Now that Russia is no longer buying from ISIS, it's convenient to destroy their inventory.

It's hard to know who it sold oil to but one report claims in 2014 it was selling oil to Israel as below.

http://whatsupic.com/economy-world/1407936162.html

It's possible that when capturing a region, business will go on as usual with no need to change and look for new customers.

That article says that Israel was buying oil from Turkey. Some of that oil might originally have been sold to the refinery by ISIS. I very much doubt Israel has access to the books of a Turkish refinery to see where the oil came from.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

ISIS Oil Is Going to Its Sunni Ally, Turkey

For the past year os so while the west has been pretending to degrade ISIL they continued to turn a blind eye to ISIL having something like 1000 oil tankers vehicles which have been transporting oil, at least until very recently.

Russia now has again taken the leading role and destroyed up to 525 of them
[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/WgYbiCGYy2c[/YOUTUBE]

One question that is yet to be answered is

who is the commodity trader breaching every known law of funding terrorism when buying ISIS crude, almost certainly with the tacit approval by various "western alliance" governments, and why is it that these governments have allowed said middleman to continue funding ISIS for as long as it has?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/most-important-question-about-isis-nobody-asking

They have also been targeting ISIL oil storage facilities
https://www.rt.com/news/322881-russia-cruise-missiles-isis/

Since ISIS is led by Saddam's more jihadist former officers, they'd know how to market oil production that is not under OPEC quotas. Saddam also did that in defiance of sanctions imposed after he was driven out of the recovered Iraqi province of Kuwait. In the 1990s, that excess oil was enough to drive down world oil prices, which was the main cause of Clinton's economic boom. Both wars against Saddam were to protect price-gouging by OPEC and its Big Oil collaborators in the West.

 

[bilby]

refineries just randomly let tankers,in through their gates ?

The refinery is probably dealing with a familiar person. They just don't ask where this tank full originatated.

Stick a pony in me pocket
I'll fetch the suitcase from the van
Cause if you want the best 'uns
And you don't ask questions
Then brother I'm your man

'Cos where it all comes from
Is a mystery
It's like the changing of the seasons
And the tides of the sea
But heres the one thats driving me berserk
Why do only fools and horses work?

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

refineries just randomly let tankers,in through their gates ?

The refinery is probably dealing with a familiar person. They just don't ask where this tank full originated.

If you're doing your job it never gets to the refinery.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

But if the bribes pay more than your salary, why would you be doing your job?

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

But if the bribes pay more than your salary, why would you be doing your job?

What I mean is that if I seriously want to weaken ISIS I go after the tankers. That's their money. The Russians seem to know that.

If we're gonna keep shitting on that part of the world we need to aim our shit at the right targets.

 

[Jayjay]

But if the bribes pay more than your salary, why would you be doing your job?

What I mean is that if I seriously want to weaken ISIS I go after the tankers. That's their money. The Russians seem to know that.

If we're gonna keep shitting on that part of the world we need to aim our shit at the right targets.

The US destroyed 116 tankers on the same day when Putin gave his speech, so clearly both sides are aware of the problem and taking steps to rectify the situation.

But I don't think that the oil income is what's keeping ISIS afloat. They've got other sources of revenue, mainly robbing the areas they have conquered, and taxing the remaining inhabitants. But that's bound to dry up eventually also.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

What I mean is that if I seriously want to weaken ISIS I go after the tankers. That's their money. The Russians seem to know that.

If we're gonna keep shitting on that part of the world we need to aim our shit at the right targets.

The US destroyed 116 tankers on the same day when Putin gave his speech, so clearly both sides are aware of the problem and taking steps to rectify the situation.

But I don't think that the oil income is what's keeping ISIS afloat. They've got other sources of revenue, mainly robbing the areas they have conquered, and taxing the remaining inhabitants. But that's bound to dry up eventually also.

Did you read the article in the OP? If the article is even half accurate the US has refrained from bombing tankers for fear of civilian casualties and in deference to Turkey which profits from ISIS oil smuggling. Oil is their primary source of income. Putin has it right.

 

[Jayjay]

The US destroyed 116 tankers on the same day when Putin gave his speech, so clearly both sides are aware of the problem and taking steps to rectify the situation.

But I don't think that the oil income is what's keeping ISIS afloat. They've got other sources of revenue, mainly robbing the areas they have conquered, and taxing the remaining inhabitants. But that's bound to dry up eventually also.

Did you read the article in the OP? If the article is even half accurate the US has refrained from bombing tankers for fear of civilian casualties and in deference to Turkey which profits from ISIS oil smuggling. Oil is their primary source of income. Putin has it right.

That article mentions the US bombings as well. And since the bombings happened on the same day as Putin made its speech, clearly they were planned ahead and America was already on the case. Probably Putin knew this so he timed his speech so that it would appear as if he "shamed" USA to start bombing the tankers. Besides I don't see anything there that would prove that oil trade is ISIS's primary source of income.

For whatever reason, USA dragged its feet in targeting the oil trade, but that seems to have changed now.