Posted on 04/11/2022 8:40:54 AM PDT by JonPreston
Putin probably calculated that his red lines had been crossed and that Biden and company knew this yet were not prepared to make any concessions.
***Nahh. Putin made the same calculation he did in 2014, which was that he detected the distinct odor of cowardice coming from POTUS so he invaded. What he wanted was the natural resources, all the rest of that garbage he spouted was just excuses to invade.
This war is about OIL. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050958/posts
The Russians weren’t even interested in eastern Ukraine until oil was found there. Their interest is simply in raping that country. Russia gets 60% of its revenues from oil exports. Europe gets 40% of their oil from Russia.
In 2012 massive oil and gas reserves were found in Crimea. Crimea signed a $10 billion exploration contracts with Shell and Chevron to develop the new found oil and gas fields. These oil and gas products would compete in Europe with Russia’s oil and gas, reducing Russia’s oil revenues, which we recall amount to 60% of their total GDP. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, cancelling the contracts with Shell and Chevron.
But Ukraine still had massive reserves in, you guessed it, Donetsk and Luhansk, and other areas East of the Dnieper River. In 2019, Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited Ukraine, and soon after Ukraine awarded exploration contracts to a consortium of U.S. oil companies. Again, these oil reserves would compete in Europe with Russian oil, so Putin is invading Ukraine to shut down this latest attempt to extract Ukrainian oil and sell it in competition with Russian oil.
This explanation makes more sense to me than the “Putin feels threatened by NATO expansion” excuses for the invasion.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044221/posts?page=1#1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmdSzVFSKc
If the Ukes allow some small region in the west to be its own republic, but the OIL belongs to Ukraine, do ya think Pootypoot would allow that? Nope.
It’s not a disused account. Russian trolls don’t put that much work into taking over an account.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:jonpreston/index?more=123459190
Stalin was Georgian.
He did bring the Slavic people, mostly, under a Muscowite dominated union. I doubt he believed his own propaganda, but he was a master at using it
Then I’m even more shocked.
tłusta polska świnia
Besides which, I ain't Polish except by dual citizenship, so your lame attempts are doubly laughable :)
So here you are, a foreigner, living in Poland, calling an American citizen a Russian agent. You sound like Adam Schiff with a little Rachel Maddow thrown in. You’re the epitome of a living, breathing Polish joke.
I’m calling you a Russian agent for your posts. You support Putin’s invasion
“Stalin was Georgian.”
Yup; and Georgians were a distinct ethnic minority in Russia. So, it wouldn’t have made much sense for Stalin to promote uniting the Kartvelian people to dominate Europe. I mean, they were would have been exterminated had they tried.
There are freepers, even conservative ones, who get sucked into a fallacious mode of thinking that goes sumthin like “well, all these globoterrorist homodudes are on that side of this issue, so I’m against it” rather than thinking issues through with a straightforward philosophical framework.
“He did bring the Slavic people, mostly, under a Muscowite dominated union.”
By force. It’s not like any of them had any real say in the matter. Oh, a handful of diehard communists thought it was great; others, not so much.
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