Global warming is real.
We have just nine years to save humanity.
Covid vaccines work, preventing 100% death and hospitalizations.
Inflation is transitory and actually good for the economy.
DJT is a Russian pawn.
DJT paid for urinating Russian hookers.
Hunter’s laptop is Russian propaganda.
The 2020 elections were secure and accurate.
The 2016 election was jeopardized by Russian influence.
Russia is running out of ammo in Ukraine.
Russian soldiers were unprepared for a Russian winter.
(add you own here)
If you don’t agree with these statements, you are a racist!
Cynical, skeptical and jaded I am. But now I have a pretty good feel for when I’m being lied too. Something just doesn’t add up with this Russian Ukrainian mess.
Yeah, what doesn’t add up is the shallow justification for the invasions and the weak-kneed appeasement of Putin.
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.