Posted on 02/09/2022 8:54:17 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
HOW THE NATION OF UKRAINE RANKS:
1st in Europe in proven recoverable reserves of uranium ores; 2nd place in Europe and 10th place in the world in terms of titanium ore reserves;
2nd place in the world in terms of explored reserves of manganese ores (2.3 billion tons, or 12% of the world's reserves);
2nd largest iron ore reserves in the world (30 billion tons);
2nd place in Europe in terms of mercury ore reserves;
3rd place in Europe (13th place in the world) in shale gas reserves (22 trillion cubic meters)
4th in the world by the total value of natural resources; 7th place in the world in coal reserves (33.9 billion tons)
UKRAINE IS AN AGRICULTURAL COUNTRY. UKRAINE CAN MEET THE FOOD NEED OF 600 MILLION PEOPLE:
1st in Europe in terms of arable land area; 3rd place in the world by the area of black soil (25% of world's volume); 1st place in the world in exports of sunflower and sunflower oil; 2nd place in the world in barley production and 4th place in barley exports; 3rd largest producer and 4th largest exporter of corn in the world; 4th largest producer of potatoes in the world; 5th largest rye producer in the world; 5th place in the world in bee production (75,000 tons); 8th place in the world in wheat exports; 9th place in the world in the production of chicken eggs; 16th place in the world in cheese exports.
UKRAINE IS AN INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRY:
1st in Europe in ammonia production; 2-е Europe's and 4th largest natural gas pipeline system in the world (142.5 bln cubic meters of gas throughput capacity in the EU); 3rd largest in Europe and 8th largest in the world in terms of installed capacity of nuclear power plants; 3rd place in Europe and 11th in the world in terms of rail network length (21,700 km); 3rd place in the world (after the U.S. and France) in production of locators and locating equipment; 3rd largest iron exporter in the world 4th largest exporter of turbines for nuclear power plants in the world; 4th world's largest manufacturer of rocket launchers; 4th place in the world in clay exports 4th place in the world in titanium exports 8th place in the world in exports of ores and concentrates; 9th place in the world in exports of defence industry products; 10th largest steel producer in the world (32.4 million tons).
But…what is the US National interest. Not saying that doesn’t explain the resources of the country. And, if you are sitting in Kiev…it is appropriate to be concerned.
But sitting in New England…I don’t understand why Biden is freaking out about this.
There are times when getting involved in a major war is obvious. Biden seems to be trying too hard to get us ramped up. That concerns me.
(And I pay attention to this stuff…I wonder what the guys over at the factory are thinking about it.)
None of our business.
The EU should be bolstering Ukraine.
10% for The Big Guy, that’s why it matters.
I suspect if someone did a poll on what worries people most right now, Ukraine‘s security would be well down on the list. I worry about the destabilizing effects of a possible war, but Ukraine’s future doesn’t keep me awake at night.
It's not a big ask. But the war mongers want us to threaten nuclear Armageddon instead.
Hunter’s investments.
Steve Jobs used to say that you can only keep 3 things in your head a one time.
Here are four, so I guess we are screwed:
Southern border
National Debt
American Incompetence in all things
China expansionism and subversion.
And the only reason they want to be in nato is for us to protect all that loot for their corruptions and plugs.
Not our business, not our burden.
If the Russians already own the uranium, how can Hillary sell it to them?
If it’s that important, let the Yurps defend it.
The strategy that won the Cold War was containment. If you stop your opponent from expanding, then in the long run you win.
If you let your opponent steadily expand, then eventually they will overpower you.
Sounds like the same lesson for the US as well as Russians. From the actions of the past couple decades (from the Russian viewpoint) it doesn’t look like the ‘Cold War’ is actually over.
Not known how many years it has been going on.
What ever they have is not worth the life of one American.
Since the end of WWII our leaders have gotten us into one military conflict after another and never with the intent to win so why would this be any different.
Well there is one main difference. The beginning of WWIII.
You go fight first.
As long as OUR BORDERS don’t matter F ukraine!!!
“I don’t understand why Biden is freaking out about this.”
He isn’t. It’s just the next topic he can use to cover up the last one and get it out of the news. It started with the masks and immunizations he swore to accomplish during his campaign, continued through the immigration at the southern border and the closing of the oil production capacity, cruised to Afghanistan and Iran with just recently offering Iran a free ride to go nuclear, his mishandling of China, and now his folding against Putin, again. See much on covid shot numbers in the news without having to look for it? How about Afghanistan, or China’s treatment of people, or the illness and drugs coming across the southern border, or our dependency on oil and natural gas to foreign trade, or.....
This is how the left works. They try to keep you occupied with something until it gets old or out of hand, and they surprise you with some more stupidity and use the media to make the illiterate, low IQ’d and unskilled thinkers to buy their idiocy. Been going on for over a hundred years. Stick around, they are just now getting into extra terrestrials.
wy69
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