It's an addiction.

The European Union has published its 18th round of sanctions on Russia. "The EU will impose a moving price cap on Russian crude at 15% below its average market price," and "That means a cap of roughly $47.60 per barrel at present, well below the $60 maximum the Group of Seven (G7) economies have tried to impose since December 2022." Reuters. For the first time it includes a refinery based in India. "Rosneft maintains a 49.13% ownership in Nayara Energy Ltd, previously known as Essar Oil Ltd. Nayara operates a 20 million tonne annual capacity oil refinery in Vadinar, Gujarat, alongside managing more than 6,750 patrol stations." TOI. This is breathtaking in its arrogance, duplicity and mendacity as, "the EU is purchasing 51% of Russia's LNG exports," and "the EU is the largest buyer, purchasing 37% of Russia's pipeline gas," said India's Oil Minister Hardeep Puri. "I said, 'friend, you tell them that they buy more in one afternoon - this is early days - than I buy in a quarter," he said. The EU consists of nations which established colonies in Africa, Asia and the Americas through military conquest. wikipedia. "No country or world region has ever received foreign income flows approaching the magnitude of Europe's in the 19th century." "On the eve of World War I, Europe's foreign wealth - i.e. net foreign assets owned by European residents in the rest of the world - reached about 70% Europe's GDP (30% of World's GDP), while all other parts of the world had a negative foreign assets position." "Without colonial transfers between 1800 and 1914,..in 1914, Europe would have had a very large debt, while South & South-East Asia (and to a lesser extent Latin America) would have accumulated significant foreign wealth." World Inequality Database. EU countries appear to be addicted to plunder and pillage. Actual numbers cannot be known now, but it is estimated that up to 100 million native Americans may have perished due to European invasion. wikipedia. Recent research shows that in "Just 40 of the total 200 years that the British ruled India, deaths that the colonisers are responsible for can easily surpass all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined." ET. The UK looted an estimated $64.82 trillion from India between 1765 and 1900. ET. Did Russia ever invade France? No. But, France, under Nepoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia in 1812. Britannica. Did Russia ever invade Germany? No. But, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. wikipedia. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a gang of former colonizing nations  (wikipedia), intent on solving disagreements with other countries through military power. Our media should publish the statistics of colonisation on front pages everyday. Time to show them. The truth.