Russian oil and gas revenues are doomed, like Russian officials are doomed to hellfire, for the atrocities they committed, and condoned.
What a foul stain on the soul it is, to have known of the torture and killing, and to have chosen to ally oneself with it. Whoring your integrity for money.
The cap is coming. December 5th. It serves everyone’s interests, except Russia, which is as guilty as sin, and the whole world knows it.
Lower prices are as inevitable as night following day. That is what killed the old Soviet Union, and now Russia speeds toward the same end. Putin has earned it, by giving the country over to such blood thirsty sinfulness.
Russia is not going to abide the cap, more likely to double the price to entities supporting it.
Look at what happens between Russia and Europe on natural gas for reference.
If there won’t be Russian oil on market it is going to be 1973 part deux.
Brace for $200 oil.
Soviet Union was doomed by the fact that the Russians never viewed the West as enemy but mre like adversary and they believed that their communist system sucks and the problem for reconciliation with the rest of the world.
Nowadays the don’t have such illusions, and they don’t miss anything in the West as well. They know that you hate them for the very fact of their existence and going to stand their ground.
As for atrocities I have no idea what are you talking about, but yet to see Bush and any of military leaders prosecuted for scores of innocent Iraqis killed under a false pretext.