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To: whitney69
He started there because there were a lot of Russians there.

Let's look at "Z"...he was born in Ukraine when it was part of Russia. He only spoke Russian until he was 17 and then took English. His shows were ALL in Russian. All his education was in Russian schools.

Thinking about it...I'd call him "The Accidental President".

Reminds me of Being There.

13 posted on 04/06/2025 10:48:31 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau
“Let's look at “Z”...he was born in Ukraine when it was part of Russia. He only spoke Russian until he was 17 and then took English.”

Z is clearly one of those oppressed Russian speakers that President Putin is trying to liberate.

35 posted on 04/06/2025 12:10:38 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: Sacajaweau

“He started there because there were a lot of Russians there.”
There’s a whole lot more.

You might be surprised at how ‘RICH’ the Ukraine is. It is no way connected to their economy as that has been destroyed by politicians and corruption. But all the tools are there for the taking.

Ukraine has extremely rich and complementary mineral resources in high concentrations and close proximity to each other. Rich iron ore reserves located in the vicinity of Kryvyy Rih, Kremenchuk, Bilozerka, Mariupol, and Kerch form the basis of Ukraine’s large iron-and-steel industry. One of the richest areas of manganese-bearing ores in the world is located near Nikopol. Bituminous and anthracite coal used for coke are mined in the Donets Basin. Energy for thermal power stations is obtained using the large reserves of brown coal found in the Dnieper River basin (north of Kryvyy Rih) and the bituminous coal deposits of the Lviv-Volyn basin. The coal mines of Ukraine are among the deepest in Europe. Many of them are considered dangerous because their depth contributes to increased levels of methane; methane-related explosions have killed numerous Ukrainian miners.

Ukraine also has important deposits of titanium ore, bauxite, nepheline (a source of soda), alunite (a source of potash), and mercury (cinnabar, or mercuric sulfide) ores. A large deposit of ozokerite (a natural paraffin wax) occurs near the city of Boryslav. Subcarpathia possesses potassium salt deposits, and both Subcarpathia and the Donets Basin have large deposits of rock salt. Some phosphorites as well as natural sulfur are found in Ukraine.

The three major areas producing natural gas and petroleum in Ukraine are the Subcarpathian region, exploited since the late 19th–early 20th century, and the Dnieper-Donets and Crimean regions, both developed since World War II. Following World War II, the extraction of natural gas in Ukraine soared until it accounted for one-third of the Soviet Union’s total output in the early 1960s. Natural gas production declined after 1975, however, and their petroleum followed just the same.

The exploitation of petroleum and natural gas in Ukraine necessitated the creation of an extensive pipeline transport system. One of the first natural gas pipelines in the region opened in the 1920s, linking Dashava to Lviv and then to Kyiv. As a result of the Soviet Union’s commitment to major gas exporting in the late 1960s and early ’70s, two trunk pipelines were laid across Ukraine to bring gas to eastern and western Europe from Siberia and Orenburg in Russia. Petroleum from the Dolyna oil field in western Ukraine is piped some 40 miles (65 km) to a refinery at Drohobych, and oil from fields in eastern Ukraine is piped to a refinery in Kremenchuk. Subsequently, larger petroleum trunk lines were added (some 700 miles [1,100 km]) to supply petroleum from western Siberia to refineries at Lysychansk, Kremenchuk, Kherson, and Odessa, as well as a 420-mile (675-km) segment of the Druzhba (“Friendship”) pipeline, which crosses western Ukraine to supply Siberian oil to other European countries. The pipelines connecting the Siberian oil and gas fields with Europe are a major economic asset for Ukraine, as their importance to Russia gives Ukraine leverage in negotiations over oil and gas imports. However, disputes between Ukraine and Russia have in the past led the latter to cut off its supply temporarily—negatively affecting Ukraine as well as the European Union, which depends on gas and oil from these pipelines.

So, location and minerals have driven the Ukraine’s worth to a very valuable piece of property the Russians want back. And I think it’s obvious the Russians think they can handle the property better than the Ukrainees.

Wy69


57 posted on 04/06/2025 4:19:30 PM PDT by whitney69
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