{"id":20,"date":"2026-07-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/?p=20"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:00:00","slug":"russian-owned-refinery-ireland-war-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"A Russian-Owned Refinery in Ireland Was Linked to Moscow&#8217;s War Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sanctions have holes \u2014 and this one runs through Ireland. We trace how a Russian-owned refinery in the EU was linked to Moscow&#8217;s war economy, and why energy infrastructure has become the war&#8217;s second front.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Russian-Owned Refinery in Ireland Was Linked to Moscow\u2019s War Machine\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NohDSzL-snc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanctions have holes \u2014 and this one runs through a Russian-owned refinery in Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategic-strikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticsarmor.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}