Plus you missing one obvious point in who benefits from a middle eastern conflict that would drive up the price of oil. The Russians.
Anytime the price of oil/natural gas goes up the Russians make money. Their whole economy is based primarily on oil and gas exports. There is a mutual fund or ETF called The Russia Fund. I owned it at one point. I was advised to buy it as a hedge against oil prices. It went up and down based on the price of oil.
If the Europeans/Japanese can not get oil from the gulf because they do not want to risk bringing their tankers transiting through a war zone they will buy more Russian oil.
“” “” Anytime the price of oil/natural gas goes up the Russians make money. Their whole economy is based primarily on oil and gas exports. “” “”
Not really. Russian energy sector is just slightly larger than of US in terms of share of overall economy.
It is true that oil sales USED TO BE a major source of government revenue based on disproportional taxation of that sector in Russia but it is not true anymore as well.
Yes, and they are in need of money to further finance their big plans for reemerging as a global superpower, taking back their former satellite states, such as Ukraine, Poland, and others.
It was probably the number one reason why they moved into the oil/gas-rich Middle East, using ISIS, who they conceivably helped create or make worse themselves, as the rationale. That is precisely how they operate.
The company that Biden's son Hunter worked for and made millions from in the Ukraine was owned by a pro-Russian guy with close ties to Putin. That company was/is reportedly the largest gas company in the entire Ukraine: Burisma
Then of course there was the Obama-Hillary Uranium-One deal, where Russia was allowed to take control of 20% of our uranium production!
As for Burisma...
[RT (Russia Today) is a Russia state-owned and controlled propaganda media outlet -ETL]
From The Daily Caller, May 5, 2019
* Hunter Biden was appointed to the board of directors of a Ukranian company [Burisma] as part of an effort to recruit well-connected Americans while the company was under investigation, according to The New York Times.
* Then-Vice President Joe Biden played a role in pressuring Ukraine to oust the countrys top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating the company, Burisma.
* Shokins successor initially ended the investigation into Burisma, but decided in March 2019 to reopen it.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/05/biden-ukraine-burisma-trump/
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From 2014...
Mykola Zlochevsky
Same article, Daily Caller, May 5, 2019
Burisma is a natural gas exploration and production company owned by Mykola Zlochevsky, a cabinet member of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich. [Viktor Yanukovich was Putins stooge in the Ukraine -ETL].
Yanukovich was removed from his position in February 2014.
He [Yanukovich] currently lives in exile in Russia and is wanted by Ukraine for high treason.
Zlochevsky later fled the country in late-2014 as Ukrainian prosecutors launched investigations into his time in public office as well as his private businesses.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/05/biden-ukraine-burisma-trump/
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Viktor Yanukovych (Party of Regions), Putin's stooge in the Ukraine -ETL]
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His major rival was Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. ..."
The campaign was often bitter and violent.
Yushchenko became seriously ill in early September 2004.
He was flown to Viennas Rudolfinerhaus clinic for treatment and diagnosed with acute pancreatitis, accompanied by interstitial edematous changes, due to a serious viral infection and chemical substances that are not normally found in food products.
Yushchenko claimed that he had been poisoned by government agents.
After the illness, his face was greatly disfigured: jaundiced, bloated, and pockmarked.
British toxicologist Professor John Henry of St Marys Hospital in London declared the changes in Yushchenkos face were due to chloracne, which results from dioxin poisoning.[17]
Dutch toxicologist Bram Brouwer also stated his changes in appearance were the result of chloracne, and found dioxin levels in Yushchenkos blood 6,000 times above normal.[18]
On December 11, Dr. Michael Zimpfer of the Rudolfinerhaus clinic declared that Yushchenko had ingested TCDD dioxin and had 1,000 times the usual concentration in his body.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko#TCDD_poisoning
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Viktor Yushchenko
Many Ukrainians believe you need look no further than the face of Viktor Yushchenko to understand Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
Once smooth and ruggedly handsome, it still bears the scars from an assassination attempt when someone slipped dioxin into Yushchenko's food. ..."
Read more here:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article24765781.html#storylink=cpy
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