Posted on 03/06/2022 11:09:00 AM PST by Yo-Yo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmdSzVFSKc
Yet, here I am doing exactly that...
This video is 10 minutes and two seconds long, and is the best explanation I've seen so far as to why Putin and Russia 1) Invaded Crimea in 2014, 2) has been waging a proxy war in the "breakaway" regions of Donetsk and Luhansk since 2014, and 3) why Putin is invading the remainder of Ukraine in 2022.
For those of you unable or unwilling to watch the video (I do recommend spending the 10 minutes of your time,) here's my very poor Cliff Notes version:
Russia gets 60% of its revenues from oil exports. Europe gets 40% of their oil from Russia.
In 2012 massive oil and gas reserves were found in Crimea. Crimea signed a $10 billion exploration contracts with Shell and Chevron to develop the new found oil and gas fields. These oil and gas products would compete in Europe with Russia's oil and gas, reducing Russia's oil revenues, which we recall amount to 60% of their total GDP. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, cancelling the contracts with Shell and Chevron.
But Ukraine still had massive reserves in, you guessed it, Donetsk and Luhansk, and other areas East of the Dnieper River. In 2019, Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited Ukraine, and soon after Ukraine awarded exploration contracts to a consortium of U.S. oil companies. Again, these oil reserves would compete in Europe with Russian oil, so Putin is invading Ukraine to shut down this latest attempt to extract Ukrainian oil and sell it in competition with Russian oil.
This explanation makes more sense to me than the "Putin feels threatened by NATO expansion" excuses for the invasion.
Another reason Pukin is doing this is the opportune time because he knows we’re divided and Joek is in “command.”
Follow the $$$$$$
Bkmrk
Because sleepy Joe is president.
Following the money is always a safe bet.
It’s multifaceted, but that’s definitely part of it.
Just a different version of what’s going on in this country, coupled with a sovereignty matter (and other factors).
But CINOs won’t accept any justification for undermining their alignment with the leftists and globalists.
Yeah. We need to keep the failure of securing our southern border in the forefront but the Republicants won’t do it.
Like Japan pre-WWII - attack the states in the area (southeast asia) with energy reserves, on the justification that (a) they are needed for Japan’s industry, and (b) get them before (or after) they are sowed up by the Brits, Dutch, French, Portugese, American’s, ect. Yet, post WWII, in a peaceful cooperative economic order, Japan found she could get contracts for those same sources.
Gasprom and Rosnet - the two giant Russian energy companies - could have merely outbid Shell and Chevron for energy sources in Crimea, without Putin’s imperialist ambitions. So Russian companies having access to fossil fuels in Crimea did not REQUIRE Putin invading Crimea.
Energy sources are at the end of the day excuses for Putin, not absolute natural causes of his behavior.
A lot of people think Putin is trying to reform the USSR. He's not. Putin isn't an admirer of Lenin or Stalin. His hero is Peter the Great and he's refighting the Battle of Poltava for the lands occupied by Tsarist Russia.
1709 was a decisive victory for the Russian armies under Peter the Great, taking control of much of the land that is now Ukraine and placing it within the borders of Russia Proper, where they remained until 1922, when the Bolsheviks created out of thin air the nation of Ukraine and made it a Soviet Republic state.
Putin believes this land belongs to Russia as they fought for it and won it in war.
Why? Because Ukraine was asking for it by wearing a short skirt.
Czarist Russia was actually bigger than the Soviet Union, Russia had all of Finland and most of Poland under the Czars.
Why is Russia Invading Ukraine? Opinion!
Because Putin wanted to be a Bond Villain for real.
From Russian with Love part 2.
At least not until the CCP is in Mexico and we enter the Idiocracy phase, no thanks to those who are too dumb to grasp the consequences of their actions (including here).
But this ‘conflict’ is so multifaceted that its proper name should be Operation Chaos, courtesy the globalists.
I truly believe that the virus - though manufactured - was an accidental leak and that the intended timeline was for Putin to go into Ukraine under Trump. The virus delayed it.
The virus was to come later, but they had to run with it, somewhat explaining the chaos in early 2020 (they hadn’t yet adopted the plans laid out the prior fall).
And somewhere in the fog of it all is the ultimate wildcard/Joker: A nuclear shadow over the Persian Gulf (Iran).
Domestic production won’t mean a thing if market prices are $200/barrel, meaning more government dictates...and more chaos.
A large part of me wants to move to an isolated island and live out my days doing what feels good, but I still have the fight left in me.
Save
Wearing a short skirt around the Clinton Foundation and Biden family… “Hey baby, might wanna put some ice on that lip…”
Russia will never let Belarus or Ukraine join some Western European alliance or NATO.
As for the pygmy/pissant countries in NATO to the North & South of Russia, the Russians will “bitch and moan” but they won’t burn up “blood and treasure” over them.
Its not worth it to them.
When this issue is Russia (including Putin) losing many billions of dollars when Europe decides to buy its oil and natural gas from the competitor Ukraine and its newly developed oil and gas resources, you can bet Russia would invade Ukraine and take over its oil and gas deposits.
After all, in 2014 Russia annexed the Crimea when its newly discovered oil and gas were about to become competitors in sales to Europe.
As for NATO, who seriously thinks it presents an invasion threat to Russia?
And while Putin held off invading Ukraine while Trump was in office, he’d be considered an idiot, even by his own people, for not invading Ukraine while Dementiajoe (whose been paid off by both China and Russia) was shuffling around in the White House.
Is Russia going into Poland or Finland after Ukraine?
My answer is “They aren’t.”
I’m curious about your opinion/prediction.
But Ukraine still had massive reserves in, you guessed it, Donetsk and Luhansk, and other areas East of the Dnieper River. In 2019, Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited Ukraine, and soon after Ukraine awarded exploration contracts to a consortium of U.S. oil companies. Again, these oil reserves would compete in Europe with Russian oil, so Putin is invading Ukraine to shut down this latest attempt to extract Ukrainian oil and sell it in competition with Russian oil.
This explanation makes more sense to me than the “Putin feels threatened by NATO expansion” excuses for the invasion.
Ok so if we take that premises that it about oil..they again would explain why WE (the west) want to take it over too
It doesn’t matter what Strategic reasons both sides want it be it oil, geopolitically local or secure.. they still Both want it
vs let it be a neutral buffer between the two....
But with or with out oil .. Russian had been fighting to hold on to Crimea for several hundred years as it major navel base and warm water port
And with or without oil we made a commitment back went the Soviet Union fell to the new Russian government NOT to expand Nato to there border
I keep saying this is Cowboys and Indians..with the Russian being the Indians
So you juse gave the classic reasons that Treaties with the Indians always got broken and then the Indians went on the war path. Money
... in this case...oil.. yea that fits why we are so hot and heavy to “Help”
If it was bump fu-k nowhere with nothing.. no would give a crap .. they be let the Russians have it just like no gave a crap about crap Indians land
So let’s quit acting like we’re some kind of saints in this game
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