This war is about OIL. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050958/posts
The Russians weren’t even interested in eastern 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.
Class, what have we learned about the Russia?
Answer #1: don’t rely on your enemies or potential enemies for your energy.
Answer #2: following green energy is a fools errand and you must have a back up plan if green/renewable energy doesn’t fulfill its promises... which it won’t.
Answer #3: in the real world, people (and countries) are evil and will extort you, blackmail you, and make war with you and if you fail to follow #1 and #2 above, your enemies will take advantage of you.
People don’t seem to understand that if things really do not go well for Russia in this war, they WILL pull out the long knives. The longer Ukraine holds out, the more this is going to “leave a mark” on Europe and possibly the rest of the world.
At least, that is how I see this going down.
“The Dnipro-Donetsk basin is a major oil and gas producing region accounting for 90 percent of all current Ukrainian production. The structure of hydrocarbons production in Ukraine is as follows: natural gas 89 percent, oil 7.9 percent, and gas condensate 3.1 percent. The primary source of hydrocarbons in Ukraine is natural gas, though the most lucrative gas reserves are located below 5,000 meters.”
My support has always been with the people in this and none of the politicians/leaders. Only President Trump has recently made a statement about finding and end to the destruction.
I hope Europe suffers greatly in the pocket and realizes their decades long free ride is over and with it a way of life largely supported by the American taxpayers debt, a debt that will destroy our way of life.
So Big Dummy Austin, Woke slob Miley and clowns like Blinken carry on
another language map based on 2001 data that is more localized (and probably more informative politically and militarily):
https://translatorswithoutborders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Ukraine-Language-Map.png
What I do not understand is why we had anything to say about the proposed Israel natural gas pipeline from the Med to Egypt ,Cyprus and onto to Greece?
You would think the US/Europe would be in favor of our best ally and the only democracy in the Middle East selling natural gas to Europe and Egypt.
“The Soviet Union came to a formal end in December 1991, leaving 25 million ethnic Russians living outside the borders of their nominal homeland.”
“...ethnic Russians are more likely than non-Russians in their countries to say that Russia has an obligation to protect ethnic Russians living outside its borders.”
“Putin Pledges To Protect All Ethnic Russians Anywhere.”
The 2014 article has some history that people interested in the current subject should read about.
Putin caged himself can’t back track no place to run trusts nobody he’s a goner no matter what he does his own people hate him for the losses he’s caused.
Wonder how many dreams of Hitler’s bunker he has?.
I’m old enough to remember when President Reagan warned the Euro-weenies about this very possibility.
