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1 posted on 07/31/2014 10:06:50 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
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Here is a great line from the article:

""If the oil price goes down to $75 and stays there for a few years, Russia will have regime change," said a prominent Russian economist who asked not to be named."

He asked not to be named because speaking of a government not led by Putin is dangerous.

2 posted on 07/31/2014 10:08:33 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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Accelerated Keystone would certainly get Vlad’s attention.

Will Jughead do anything in the Free World’s interest?


3 posted on 07/31/2014 10:15:34 PM PDT by gasport (President Omoeba needs to evolve a spine)
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This is the second article in as many days from to left-wing news sources, the other being The New York Times, which are really analyst pieces telling us that sanctions against Russia are likely to produce the change desired.

Apart from the vague and unsupported assertion, "Asian banks are unlikely to be able to fill the gap" it is not clear why the Russians cannot look to China with whom they recently signed a big energy deal, for the funds needed to expand energy production in the East for delivery to energy hungry China.

Although the sanctions purport to close access by Russia to American banks to finance expended energy production, if the money comes from China America will be indirectly financing the expansion but with our money laundered through China. Every year we have stupendous trade imbalances in stupendous debts run up to China which that country uses to buy up commodities around the globe and, not incidentally, to support regimes openly hostile to America.

Are these sanctions pushing the Russians and the Chinese together? Has it not been in the strategic interest of the United States since Henry Kissinger to drive a wedge between Russia and China?

If we had a president who thought about these things or who even cared about these things we might forge a policy over Ukraine which is not self defeating. A president who is not anti-American might find a way to think his way through these things as did the Nixon/Kissinger team which exploited the split between Russia and China.


6 posted on 07/31/2014 10:23:50 PM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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Russia and Putin play chess while the West plays checkers.

Anyone else notice that the Middle East is going BOOM?! Gee, wonder what that will do to the price of oil? And that also tells you who is behind it all.

Fools...


7 posted on 07/31/2014 10:34:35 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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UPDATE 1-Russian budget banks on firm oil prices
Reuters
Mon Jul 9, 2012 2:42pm EDT
"MOSCOW, July 9 (Reuters) - Russia's federal budget will only balance if oil prices to hold above $100 per barrel until at least 2015, according to a draft three-year budget seen by Reuters on Monday."

The WTI crude price is $98.02.


8 posted on 07/31/2014 10:38:14 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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More recent news from this year: Russia needs $101.70 a barrel to break even.

Oil Price Leverage Over Russia in Ukraine Crisis
By Roman Kilisek on April 17, 2014 at 12:10 PM
http://breakingenergy.com/2014/04/17/oil-price-leverage-over-russia-in-ukraine-crisis/


9 posted on 07/31/2014 10:44:47 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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They left out rocket engine and space taxi revenue.


10 posted on 07/31/2014 10:44:48 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Kerry, as Obama's plenipotentiary, is a paradox - the physical presence of a geopolitical absence")
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There is some thought that Putin is going on his adventures to get the people’s minds off their domestic misery. How true this might be, I couldn’t say, but apparently Russia’s economy is even worse than ours, despite Obama’s sabotage.


11 posted on 07/31/2014 10:58:14 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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This is why approving the Keystone pipeline and unleashing US energy potential is the best way to deal with Russia and the mid east. It mention of both of those events will start the decline of world energy prices and drive socialist countries into bankruptcy.


13 posted on 07/31/2014 11:50:53 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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These analysts aren’t running the full game simulation. The flip side is that Europe has no compelling alternative to Russian natural gas this Winter if Putin embargoes them by shutting the pipelines off.

Ditto for Russia ceasing to sell its 7 million barrels of oil per day.

Oh golly, Moscow’s budget won’t balance...gee, they can talk to DC about that one.


17 posted on 08/01/2014 1:35:52 AM PDT by Southack (The one thing preppers need from the 1st World? http://tinyurl.com/ktfwljc .)
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20 posted on 08/01/2014 2:07:24 AM PDT by wetphoenix
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Europe is going to freeze this winter if they Putin decides to turn off their gas. And we won’t be able to get to the Space Station. But Putin doesn’t seem to be a capitalist. He likes the West’s money.


22 posted on 08/01/2014 2:24:36 AM PDT by McGruff (Seems like some are more interested in protecting Ukraine's border than ours.)
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Bttt


24 posted on 08/01/2014 4:07:59 AM PDT by preacher (I am not a global warming hoax denier.)
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