Posted on 11/10/2017 10:55:20 PM PST by EliRoom8
As Russia’s hybrid war against Ukraine nears its fifth calendar year—and as Ukraine’s infamously cold winter draws near—American companies are incrementally cutting into Russia’s de facto monopoly as a supplier of nuclear fuel and coal to Ukraine, thereby undermining a longtime coercive lever of Russian influence over Kyiv.
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Selling Coal, LNG and Oil to Europe puts the squeeze on Russia.
Meanwhile...exports of Coal LNG and Oil to Asia continue at an increasing pace.
Did I mention the first OIL exports to India last month...?
Wait, I was told we were colluding with Russia. Now it appears we are colluding against Russia.
Yay! Are there any other current or former Russia expats on this forum?
Putin has taken great advantage of the moral and spiritual weakness of the West. He is a Stalin-wannabe fraud who has robbed his people blind all while claiming to be the standard bearer for Christian virtue the evil “fascist” West has lost. When we in America live up to our values, frauds like Putin will be yield no more power and even Russia can be free.
He got Crimea, but he made a huge miscalculation on Ukraine.
Oh you are in Ukraine. Im a former St. Petersburg resident. :) hope to visit Ukraine one day, but I hear Poroshenko is bad news and that Trump admin will stop short of providing weapons. Thoughts?
Ukrainians are a good and hard working people as a rule. However 70 plus years of Russian communism did them great harm. Their leadership is hopelessly corrupt. They are still doing better than Russia.
If you go to Kiev go in spring when the trees on Kreschatic street are in bloom. Gorgeous.
One of State Department orientation/cone training classmates was stationed in the Embassy (Georgia) when the Russian’s rolled thru the small country’s defenses. As I recall, the Ruskies stopped at a certain bridge but it was all over at that point.
Just curious...how much more expensive is it to keep warm in Kiev these days?
Ukraine should convert RR to standard gauge. This would facilitate transportation to Ukraine from Gdansk, and bypass Straits of Bosporus should this be necessary.
Ukrainian-Russian coal is like $60-70, American is like $130-150.
I don’t think so according to most sites.
http://www.infomine.com/investment/metal-prices/coal/all/
More like $40.00 p.t. for thermal coal.
Thanks! I plan to.l and will keep Spring in mind.
I have some ancestry from Odessa from when it was part of the empire. :)
Transportation cost money and there are middlemen, kickbacks and so on.
“They are still doing better than Russia.”
Nonsense. Ukraine is what Russia would be if Yesltin was still in charge.
Now they have to import coal from South Africa and the USA, since a compatible sort isn't found everywhere and pay the transportation which makes a big proportion in the cost od this cheap commodity.
Add the shipping cost too.
I can’t believe you can ship coal all the way from the US to Ukraine without it costing alot. I hope we are not subsidizing this with tax dollars. Can’t Ukraine find another supplier with all their EU buddies now?
No. They need anthracite. It’s not found everywhere.
No thoughts about that. We are not touched by the war much in Kyiv but we are by the cold weather. Perhaps due to energy rationing we lose hot water for weeks at a time.
As for Poroshenko, I like the work he’s doing here, but I’m a relative newbie to the area. Most of the Ukranians I’ve spoken to are lukewarm about him.
I think that was an annual off-service period due to the pipeline maintenance needs. It's common in the ex-USSR countries which run district heating.
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