Posted on 12/24/2014 5:11:32 PM PST by Nachum
If it is the oil price that is wreaking so much havoc on the Russian economy, what would happen if Pooty Poot let a nuke slip through his fingers into the hands of one of the players in the Middle East?
What do you think.
Have found the solution to russia's economic woes ... LOL ... russia will have to cut their oil production level ... but of course that will not work either ... kind of a vicious cycle ... that oil market. Up, Down, Inside, Outside and then everyone wants to control the price of all the oil. Oil, the engine of all major economies. Oil supplies the engine that feeds, clothes and supplies some semblance of wealth for many of the planet's inhabitants. Sometimes the Free Market just cannot be defeated ... Thank Goodness. Am looking forward to the day though when meat can be fed oil. Maybe the price of meat will go down?!?
Good post .... Ever wonder whom is lying?
Russia could have focused more on producing many other things, but leaders there focused too exclusively on oil.
The Kremlin has successfully established important, multilayered agent-of-influence networks in NATO countries, as I've explained previously, and the current political ferment in Europe offers Putin an inroads there that Russia has not enjoyed since the early years of the Cold War. Moscow has long supported far Left parties and activists in the West, but in recent years they have made major inroads on the far Right [and in the US, Pat Buchanan, the Pauls, Stormfront] as well, whose star is ascendant in many European Union states, thanks to hot-tempered debates about immigration and national identity. Simply put, if the EU fails to deal with such issues in an effective way, and soon, it will surrender them to the far Right, i.e. Putin's allies, in a manner that will have strategic results that will benefit Moscow in important ways.
Natural resources is something that is easy to control for Putin’s clan. Kremlin did try to set up high tech production branded “Russian Silicon Valley” with state funding and big propaganda fanfares, but weren’t willing to let go of the total control over everything. Turned out business does not flourish without freedom and property rights so nothing came out of it.
Thank you, Krosan.
I lived several years in the United Kingdom. My home was 15 miles of Heathrow Airport, 18 miles from RAF Strike Command in High Wycomb, 17 miles from an RAF-USAF base with nuclear armed cruise missiles, and 15 miles from the UKs production site for plutonium for nuclear bombs. At that time we lived with the reality that a war with Russia would result in our very immediate death if lucky but certain death by radiation poisoning shortly after hostilities.
Ronald Reagan defeated and destroyed the evil empire that held the Sword of Demascoules above our heads. The weakness of the Obama administration has allowed the evil empire to again threaten the world.
Actually relative to Obama I do not think it is weakness, but according to his plan.
Man, those times were tense, you should have felt the tension in the units at the Fulda Gap.
and the sanctions were a response to...? How do sanctions start a war when war was already being waged?
You are a fool. Anti-Americanism is a hallmark of the Mad Vlad’s nationalism and patriotism. Rewarding a country for invading another is always wrong, but pretending we should be the ally of evil is just dumb all around.
Obama and Putin are allies playing a game on an international level, we are the intended victims.
Good article—looks like a new Cold War. Putin may try some assassinations—but he will not shoot Obama—he is Putins best friend.
Looks like nothing. The article just speculates about the unintended consequences.
And maybe on planet LaLa Putin and Obama are best friends. Here in the real world, they hate each other.
Merry Christmas.
If you are interested in how business in Russia works there is an excellent book “Deception: The Untold Story of East-West Espionage Today” by Edward Lucas. In the first chapter it goes over how Russian IRS steals a company from an American businessman, his lawyer goes to register a complaint in police, police assigns the thieves themselves to investigate the case, the lawyer is arrested, held in prison for almost a year without court and then dies under suspicious circumstances while in prison. At the same year the relatives of the policemen in charge of the investigation somehow become $43 million dollars richer.
The recommended book may be an interesting read, but keep in mind it is like reading a biography of Ronald Reagan written by the head of the DNC. Or a book about Obama written by FReepers. It is a biased report. (And yes, I would find the FReeper book quite factual myself.)
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