Everything the progressives and neocons in Washington DC do has the exact opposite of their stated intentions.
There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel
Criminals are always excited about their short term illicit gains but in the end, it all turns bad. With the Western oil majors all pulling out of Russia, Russia will go the way of Venezuela, lots of reserves but their production all screwed over.
This is a pretty good analysis of what’s going on regarding energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3alwWMT3l2Y
Yeah Russia has lots’o’money now. So what?
What good is all that money if you have nothing to buy with it?
Because Russia is currently under sanctions by most countries that supply useful stuff.
Look inside any modern electronics - you’ll see a whole bunch of parts that come from Taiwan, Japan, Korea, etc.
Taiwan Semi-Conductor Manufacturing Co. makes 95% of the world’s electronic chips. Russia has ZERO chip-making factories of their own, and is now cut off from TSCM and other Asian countries.
So Russia can use all that money to make domestic products - more lumbering tanks, katyuisha batteries, dumb bombs, etc., but can’t make anything high-tech
Ukraine is under no such embargo, and continues to be freely supplied, so they can keep making drones and other high-tech weapons that are proving decisive
money by itself is useless in a war
Poland was transitioning but Putin gave them what they wanted just not the way they wanted it. The EU reps behavior and tone gave away they were peeved, did not want this to happen now, and I imagine EU reps had an earful from Poland and Bulgaria. Perhaps a Russian rep said if you sanction us then we get to treat you badly.
The Russians did enough shelling to keep 5X as many Ukranian troops bottled up at Kyiv. While the world was fixated upon them, the Russians were taking cities in the east and south. The same experts that bungled Afghanistan, like Secretary “Raytheon” Austin, no doubt advised the Ukrainians.
Russia only went in with a fraction of its troops and hardware, no doubt has alot almost unknown to the world given at the start media outlets said nowhere near all the Russia troops and armor were going in.
Putin turned off the gas to Poland and Bulgaria, Russia has massive gold, oil and gas reserves, is self-sufficient, around 80% of the world’s countries did not sign on to sanctions or agree to not buy oil, China and India are among them, as are others no doubt.
Russia was making money hand over fist when oil was selling at $88 a barrel, and sanctions don’t appear to have hurt the ruble as it has returned to its pre-sanctions level.
Now they are raking in 2X.
Reminder:
Ukraine is using human shields:
Wshington Post, 3/28/22: Russia has killed civilians in Ukraine. Kyiv’s defense tactics add to the danger
“Virtually every neighborhood in most cities has become militarized, making them potential targets for Russian forces ...” More at the article.
Russia has nearly doubled its revenues from selling fossil fuels to the EU...since Biden shut down domestic fossil fuel production!
The Poles and Ursula von der Leyen have solved the Russian gas crisis, and Alex tells us all about it.
https://youtu.be/x-_hIw419_E? t=545
Alex Christoforou: Poland is trying to find ways to kind of patchwork their natural gas needs and and so this is what Poland is doing.
Poland said that it could source gas via two links with Germany including a reverse flow on the Yamaha pipeline.
They've said that they can link with Lithuania, which has an annual capacity of 2.5 bcm and they're going to open on May 1st and interconnect her with the Czech Republic for up to another 1.5 bcm.
Poland is also saying they can add another five to six bcm via a link with Slovakia. It can be shipped in.
And pg is also saying they can import six bcm per year via LNG terminals and they're also working to to get another three bcm via Norway as well. Another three to ten - up to ten bcm via Norway.
So basically what Poland is doing is that they're just trying to patch up some sort of system where they can do away with gas coming from Russia directly to Poland and get that gas via five or six different alternative methods, but at the end of the day, most of the gas that's going to be coming to Poland via these these alternative methods is still going to be Russian gas.
That's the kicker to all of this, so Poland is going to be paying a hell of a lot more for the same Russian gas that they would have gotten if it just came directly via the pipeline from Russia.
Instead they're going to work it via Norway and via Lithuania and ship through Slovakia and using reverse gas flows via Germany and all of these ridiculous things, which is just going to end up costing the Polish consumer and the Polish businesses a lot lot more.