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Posted on 12/12/2006 7:32:38 AM PST by conservativecorner
Shell is being forced by the Russian government to hand over its controlling stake in the world's biggest liquefied gas project, provoking fresh fears about the Kremlin's willingness to use the country's growing strength in natural resources as a political weapon.
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Meanwhile, in other news, the sun rose today...
Yeah, confiscation worked out so well for Russia the first time around. Shades of late 1920s New Economic Policy. Next: purges.
WOW!!! The company that I worked for supplied a lot of control valves for this project. I personally worked on the engineering of many of the valves.
By now we all know the real Russia and the security threat it represents. The only question now is what the UK and the rest of Western Europe are ready to do about it, if anything. Will they submit to the will of the Kremlin, or not?
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I have came to the conclusion that Russia has the same protected status that China enjoys. We would not do anything to them unless they directly attack us. I bet that if Russia flew the Soviet flag again, we wouldn't even take notice to it.
"I have came to the conclusion that Russia has the same protected status that China enjoys. We would not do anything to them unless they directly attack us. I bet that if Russia flew the Soviet flag again, we wouldn't even take notice to it."
I'm afraid you're right. And it's Eastern Europe and other former CIS countries that could be offered in one way or another as sacrificial lambs by a spineless Europe.
Well, only a mentally defecative idiot would be investing there in the first place.
I think I read that Western Europe currently depends on Russia for about one third of its oil and gas energy needs. That figure is expected to increase.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
The perestroika deception is at its best...
You can't invest in certain sectors in China either for "Chinese National Security" reasons...
Poland won't go down without a fight, however.
"I think I read that Western Europe currently depends on Russia for about one third of its oil and gas energy needs. That figure is expected to increase."
Yes, I think it's already higher than that at this. And they show no intention of developing a strategy to change the direction of this growing dependence, beyond talking about it.
The Russians are currently building a 136 mile (219 km) pipeline across the Tatar Strait from Sakhalin Island to De-Kastri on the Russian mainland.
A well placed small Semtex charge or a submarine with a drag line, in the beginning of winter would paralyze the oil production for 6 months.
Meanwhile we should support the Japanese claim to the Kuril and Sakhalin islands and condemn the Russians for the Genocide of the Japanese in the 19th century.
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