[PGR88]

Putin, Lavrov and others have been saying themselves why they would go to war with Ukraine for about the last 15 years.

Its not that no one in Washington DC was paying attention - they were using it, and Ukraine, as a tool in a greater plan.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[fishtank]

Have the Larouche gang stolen any credit cards lately?

[x]

The Schiller Institute are LaRouchites.

[Widget Jr]

Schlanger is using the conspiracy theory trick to keep a conspiracy fresh by rewriting current events into it. He is just rewriting LaRouche's Rothschilds-Rockefeller-British conspiracy into the Great Reset, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and anything else he can fear-monger about.

The Russian leadership have stated their opposition to NATO expansion before the USSR collapsed. By Schlanger's own admission, The Great Reset was conceived around 2008, roughly 20 years later. He is projecting his own ideologies onto Putin to use the invasion as a soap box to preach his own beliefs. I think Putin more important things on his mind for the last 30 years than to read fringe American economic-political theory.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I think Putin has been pretty clear about his reasons. He’s not hiding anything.

[Kevmo]

The Russians weren’t even interested in western Ukraine until oil was found there. Their interest is simply in raping that country. 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.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044221/posts?page=1#1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmdSzVFSKc

If the Ukes allow some small region in the west to be its own republic, but the OIL belongs to Ukraine, do ya think Pootypoot would allow that? Nope.