Posted on 01/23/2022 8:20:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Ukraine may be a poor nation if you just look at the GDP per capita, but it is a nation rich in natural resources like mineral wealth and agricultural land, which is the breadbasket of Europe. Ukraine has 30% of the world's richest black soil. Ukraine even exports agricultural products like corn to China.
The educational level of Ukrainians is high, and the country has a significant industrialized base. Compared to Russia, Ukraine has great weather and was a tourist hub along the Black Sea even during Soviet times. The famous tourist resort Yalta, next to the Black Sea in the Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, just whetted Putin's appetite for more military conquests with no permanent debilitating sanctions from the west.
Frankly, without Ukraine, Russia, climate-wise, is too far north, even though it is rich in oil and natural gas and other minerals. Russia will never become a self-sufficient power player on the world stage without Ukraine to feed it. Russia may have nuclear weapons to scare nations, but it has no chance of becoming a world-respected economic powerhouse if it can't feed itself.
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I venture to say that Putin WILL INVADE UKRAINE AND senile Brandon WILL DO NOTHING. After Brandon’s handling of Afghanistan I would not believe ANYTHING COMING OUT OF WASHINGTON, DC.
Russia wouldn't give a damn about Ukraine if we weren't using as a weapon to pester them.
Russia always invades Ukraine, every few generations or so. Always. They need the food, they need the warm water port.
OTH, global warming would be great for Russia (and Canada).
Russia is a gas station with nukes. Flood the market with low cost crude oil and natural gas, and Putin becomes a pathetic puppy dog.
Drill Baby Drill.
Trump 2024.
Did anyone ever really believe that Russia would allow NATO to place a dagger at its southern underbelly - or capture its only warm water port? A Western-dominated Ukraine is an existential threat to Russia. We have no more interest in the Black Sea than Russia has in the Gulf of Mexico. Not our monkeys, and not our circus.
Why Western Globalists want to control Ukraine Natural Resources and Farmland: Think About Who Feeds Russia
Joe Biden to Putin: “Hey man, come on now, man, don’t do that”
Historically, Russia and Ukraine have always been in conflict. They need to work this out some other way, because while Russia needs food, Ukraine needs money.
The Ukraine is much more backwards that Russia, btw, and even within the country, they spend a lot of time fighting among their various factions (which even include an ongoing fight between the Orthodox and the Catholic populations).
However, I think Joe, aka the “Big Guy,” is very involved in this for reasons other than anything relating to the reality of the conflict. After all, Hunter raked in the bucks from them for giving them special influence with Joe, and he’s basically under contract to support them.
“Frankly, without Ukraine, Russia, climate-wise, is too far north, even though it is rich in oil and natural gas and other minerals. Russia will never become a self-sufficient power player on the world stage without Ukraine to feed it. Russia may have nuclear weapons to scare nations, but it has no chance of becoming a world-respected economic powerhouse if it can’t feed itself.”
BS. Russia is a net exporter of grain and other agricultural products, and has the potential to vastly increase its output through further mechanization and efficiency. If a country the size of the UK that is a tiny fraction of the land size but still over half the population of Russia can produce 50% of its food needs before relying on imports (much of which are luxuries like coffee beans and chocolate rather than staples such as grain and meat) Russia could easily produce all of it’s own food and export the majority of its produce overseas.
“Ukraine has 30% of the world’s richest black soil”
Amazing if true!
Years ago I read that Ukraine had about 150 feet of top soil and that it had all blown in from Russia.
Just look on Google maps, satellite view. There are agriculture fields stretching all the way from Ireland to Mongolia, north into Russia and parts of Mongolia. There is plenty of food.
BULL SHIT. Check out the figures for agricultural output. Not only Russia is self-sustainable on food since 2009, it is a net exporter of it on the world market. For wheat it is a number 1 exporter.
Historically, Ukraine never existed. It was briefly mentioned in the late 16th-early 17th centuries as a borderland between Poland and Russia by such name on the Polish maps, meaning “on the edge” in Russian. Later it was called “Russian lands of Poland” until the partition of Poland when it has become Malorosia or “Little Russia”. If you’d review the forms filled out by people coming to the US from the area in earlier 1900s they state nationality and language as “Russian.” The name Ukraine returned after Lenin’s revolution because Little Russia sounded racist to Communists.
Just as “Belarus” was “Belorussia” or “White Russia”.
Yep, it was “Rus” before. Promoting the division was the major part of Lenin’s policy, including rather imaginary division.
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