Posted on 02/26/2022 7:45:24 AM PST by oblomov
I haven't seen this information compiled in a public news source, so I'm posting here.
Ukraine has very high strategic importance:
- largest country entirely in Europe at 606,000 km^2, larger than France (551,000 km^2) or Spain ( 498,000 km^2)
- 42M population, about half that of Spain
- world's 7th largest coal reserves, and Europe's second largest, after Russia
- 1100 bcm of natgas reserves, 135M tons of oil reserves, and 3.7B tons of shale oil reserves
- "breadbasket of Central Europe"
- over 10% of the world's iron ore reserves, 3rd after Russia and Australia
- 8th largest manganese producing country, larger than Russia, Kazakstan, or the US, and largest reserves in Europe
- largest titanium reserves in Europe
- largest uranium reserves in Europe
- 2% of the world's reserves of mercury
- 20% of the world's graphite reserves
- 5% of the world's lithium reserves
- access to warm-water port on the Black Sea, and thus the Mediterranean Sea
- borders 7 countries: Russia, Moldova, Belarus, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland
BONUS: The lowest GDP/capita ($3100 vs. $42000 for Germany and even $11300 for Russia) of all blond & blue-eyed people, i.e. those most valued for human trafficking
What the would be world-controllers don't care about is the Ukrainian people or their so-called democracy.
They can't let Russia win a bishop in its chess game against NATO.
So they increase the bribes to keep them on board, just as Putin (in his speech this week) described Lenin and Stalin making geographical concessions to Ukraine to keep them in the USSR.
A treasure trove of resources.
I must be a globalist. You just listed many reasons I’m concerned about Russia seizing Ukraine.
It has enormous resources, a large army, and strategic position.
I don’t like unprovoked invasions of countries and civillians being killed. Does that make me a “globalist”?
The globalists have abandoned Ukraine. The question doesn't make sense.
While I do not support the globalists, why should the Ukrainian people “belong” to either the globalists OR the Russians?
Everyone leaves out what they want. I can tell you for fact they do not want to be targets of the Russian Army or Air Force.
First order of business is Russia needs to stop and retreat back to their own borders. Right now they’re the aggressors.
They’re no different from Canadian cops busting heads of peaceful Canadian truckers. First order of business is to stop.
Then we can deal with the globalists. Here and abroad.
> - 42M population, about half that of Spain
Spain 2020 census: 47,450,795 (30th)
IMO it is not so much about Ukraine in particular than the fear that letting this pass will embolden Putin in the future and maybe more importantly others like China in regards to Taiwan.
We have lived nearly our entire lives in relative peace because off the fear dictators have that the international community will not stand for one country invading another, which destabilize the entire world.
Is there something wrong with wanting to “keep them onboard” as you put it?
Thanks for the correction- should have said Germany (83M)
If it’s the Biden family and other political families benefitting personally from the corruption, yes.
Which is why I said “in their orbit”, i.e. as a client state, rather than as a core member.
So you are a cut off your nose to spite your face type. Most don’t consider that a good thing.
crossroads of the world...
Largest money laundry for the DNC from illegal funds.
They are situated between Europe and Asia and a major center for human trafficking.
Money laundering haven.
Never the less, there is actually nothing that the globalists are doing now that Putin is removing Ukraine from the globalist's orbit.
Putin is in Delaware eating smashed peas. Germany, Italy and France are consuming Russian oil.
Anybody remember in 2014 when Obama sent Ukraine blankets.
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