Failure, like when Sixth Army was within 50 yards of Red October Tractor Factory?
This isn’t Granada, and it isn’t Kuwait. It’s not Iraq. It’s not even Afghanistan.
FR is now field day for Putinskies? Is Tucker your leader?
View all things through the prism of civilization’s lifeblood — oil.
When one types “Ukraine has none” there will then explode a series of links quoting millions of barrels and millions of cubic feet of gas “Ukraine has” and exclamation that the guy who said none doesn’t know anything and is completely wrong.
So let’s do this a bit different. Russia’s proven reserves are about 107 billion barrels. Now you have to understand some nuances of that. They have the Bazhenov shale, largest shale in the world, and they haven’t even bothered fracking it yet because they have so much conventional non-shale oil that there is no need. The US quotes about 69 billion barrels, including the most optimistic assessments of various shale.
On the list of reserves from oil’s bible, BP’s World Statistical Report, Ukraine doesn’t even appear. Norway is Europe’s primary source and lists at 8.5 (Note Kazahkstan lists 3X that).
So no, Russia is not trying to steal Ukraine’s oil. They are not worth even mentioning.
As for gas, Russia is overwhelmingly dominant. US 12 trillion cubic meters (when you look this stuff up, stay with cubic meters, not cubic feet, needless confusion). Russia 37.4 trillion cubic meters. Qatar 24.7. Iran 34.7.
Turkmenistan 13.6.
Ukraine 1.1, optimistic.
So nobody is trying to steal Ukraine’s tiny gas totals. Not even worth mentioning.
Russia has all that land surface area. They will find more oil. And gas. The US . . . has been exploring and drilling like hell for well over 100 years. Just how much more did we expect to find?
Ukraine is not the hill to die on. Russia is destined for dominance unless a direct, explicit goal is announced to seize their oil fields and deployment of military to try.
This will NEVER EVER happen from a Green administration.