Posted on 03/18/2024 11:49:12 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
President Vladimir Putin extended his reign over Russia in a landslide election whose outcome was never in doubt, declaring Monday his determination to advance deeper into Ukraine and dangling new threats against the West.
After the harshest crackdown on dissent since Soviet times, it was clear from the earliest returns that Putin’s nearly quarter-century rule would continue with a fifth term that grants him six more years. Still, Russians heeded a call to protest Putin’s repression and his war in Ukraine by showing up at polling stations at noon on Sunday. With all the precincts counted Monday, election officials said Putin had secured a record number of votes, underlining his total control over the political system. U.S. and other Western leaders denounced the election as a sham.
The election was “neither free nor fair in any sort of way,” said Nigel Gould-Davies, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Ahead of the election, Putin’s greatest political foe, Alexei Navalny, died in an Arctic penal colony, anti-war candidates were barred from the ballot and independent voices were silenced in a Kremlin-backed media blockade. No independent monitoring organizations were able to observe the election and analysts said online polling meant the vote was highly susceptible to manipulation. Any public criticism of Putin or his war in Ukraine has been stifled.
Putin appeared Monday evening on Red Square in the heart of Moscow at a concert to mark the tenth year since he annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Putin’s three token challengers for the presidency appeared on stage beside him and publicly supported him after campaigns in which none of them criticized him.
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>>>I am conservative politically. But, conservatives can hold and do have different political opinions.
Once again you are unable to access my facebook page.
I don’t doubt you have found something as my original fb page was ‘hacked’/compromised about two years ago. Maybe it still exists somewhere in cyber-space.<<<
More lies, obfuscation and denials. Your views on Ukraine are the same as Biden’s, Schumer’s, Pelosi’s, Romney’s and McConnell’s...politicians not remotely recognized as Conservatives.
Regarding your fb page: Who would hack a female “reverend’s” fb page just to add LIBERAL religious doctrine and notices concerning a church’s LIBERAL events? A CONSERVATIVE United Methodist on a mission to destroy your credibility? Now that’s rich.
Excuses, excuses...You’re a real laugh mommy.
Stop making crap up. You all do this. Knock off the weird, dysfunctional behavior and the lies derived from laziness and stupidity.
Go look at my past posts to find out my stance on this. I’m not going to keep explaining it to you zeepers and I imagine the other conservative Americans here on FR are getting weary of that as well. Stop being lazy and do some research before shooting off your ignorant pie hole.
I don’t give a rat’s ass about Putin and the only people I’m running down are you lying, disruptive zeepers. Begone, all of you. You belong on DU.
>>>What did Ukraine ever do for us?
Zero. Zip. Nada, that’s what.<<<
What has Ukraine done for us, the American Citizens who work hard to pay our taxes and feed, house and clothe our families? Drained us dry, that’s what they’ve done.
What has Ukraine done for Biden? Made him wealthier.
No, you have this wrong, certainly timelines.
China was vehemently anti Soviet. The Soviets offered Mao help against Chiang Kai Shek during their late 1940s civil war and it was rejected firmly. Throughout the 50s Maoists were devoted to the Three Worlds concept.
Chiang’s wife was raised in the US and he stole China’s gold when he fled to Taiwan, declaring that Taiwan, which had been Japanese for 40 years, was now the true China. His people brutalized Taiwan because of the vast reality of Japan culture everywhere he looked. From there, with the money bought with gold, he sent his wife to the US to successfully buy all sorts of US congress critters and molded US policy into the absurdity of not accepting that China was China. It took decades to undo what that corruption did.
But this is digression. The reality is the US is on the wrong side of history. The majority of the people of the world are not anti Russian. That’s just the way it works when China and India are aligned.
It’s a VERY long term dangerous position for the US. US shale oil is going to run short long before Russia’s vast Bazhenov shale even begins to be tapped. We will be begging for oil from them someday.
Oil decides domination and the future doesn’t look good.
Quite a lot of people were saying that the US was “on the wrong side of history” in 1962. Including a lot of its erstwhile friends, sometimes for precisely opposite reasons.
US “proven” oil reserves are at about 40,000 million barrels. The US produces about 4,000 million barrels/year.
The US is “proving” new reserves at about 2,000 million barrels per year.
I make it that the proven reserves are good for 20 years. That is, if the “proven” reserves only increase at the decadal average rate.
Which wont happen, as “proven” reserves are fictional. Estimates of recoverable petroleum including shale oil reserves are upwards of 800,000 million barrels, and that number is also increasing.
That gives the US 200 years of petroleum.
Censorship will not change my mind.
Your tagline mocks the Ukrainian people legitimately fighting a tyrannical madman named Putin.
You call people zeepers— utterly meaningless.
It’s completely fair to criticize the pro Putin rhetoric and anti-Ukrainian mockery.
My tagline mocks people like you. Zeepers.
You call people zeepers— utterly meaningless.
It sure seems to bother you, even though it’s “meaningless.” 😁
It’s completely fair to criticize the pro Putin rhetoric and anti-Ukrainian mockery.
I despise Putin. I despise Zelensky. I despise Biden. I despise Soros.
You only despise one of those, but I loathe all of those grifters. You want to send more money to Zelensky? Set up a GoFundMe. Keep your foreign hands off of my tax dollars. They’ve been laundered more than enough by your grifter pals.
Now, your inability to comprehend simple statements (maybe it’s a language barrier thing, but I suspect it’s an intellect deficiency) has become very, very tiresome. I have little patience for people who aren’t smart.
I wish no more discourse with you. It is a waste of my time and I have neither the crayons nor the desire to set you straight. You people like long, wasteful, circular conversations. I don’t have time for such futile endeavors.
Therefore, I will allow you to have the last word. Yes, I am giving you permission to screech, yap or bloviate whatever nonsense you wish to spew one last time. I may not read it, but you are permitted to spew away.
And then, refrain from bothering me any more in the future. Thank you and good night. Or whatever time of day it is where you are.
Y’all are posting in an Albatross thread.
It’s kind of fun to smack a zeeper for a minute, though.
Then they get really boring.
Their crap all comes out of the same handbook.
Reserves are complicated.
On day 1 they will have a number. On day 10 the price has changed and the number will then be different. The SEC has created rules for defining reserves because companies put them on their balance sheet as assets. Meaning, that’s how they got involved. There are P1, P2 and P3 reserves.
The reality is the true numbers are defined by Geology, not the SEC. The official 1P proven reserves number for the US is 68 billion barrels. You’re off about 1.5X. The estimate is suspect regardless. 1P is economically practical and that can end even without a price cut.
Russia, of course, is at 107 billion and that does not include the Bazhenov shale.
Shale is not a technology reality. Russia was doing fracking as far back as the 1970s. Rather, it has been a zero interest rate reality. Borrowed money paid for unprofitable wells and there was no foreclosure. When this was seen, naturally the wells became profitable. If you have no interest expense, and no repayment schedule, it’s pretty easy to be profitable.
T Boone Pickens famous joke: An oil man walks into his lender’s office and sits down. The lender asks what happened on this well #1. The oil man says #1 has been a nasty problem. Some things happened we did not expect, but thankfully it could have been worse. The lender says I see, and what of #2? Oh, #2 was a different issue. A big disappointment for sure, but it could have been worse. The lender glares and says . . . #3? Oh, that #3 well has been both an annoyance and a disappointment. Hard to fathom, but thankfully it could have been worse.
How!!! How could it be worse? Oh, that’s easy. We could be losing our money instead of yours.
There are other ways. The notorious story of NPRA (Nat Petroleum Reserve Alaska) was assessed with reserves of about 9 billion barrels in 2003. In 2008 the USGS revised that. To 850 million barrels. A loss of 90%.
Natural gas is a much stickier reality. US nat gas reserves are 12.6 trillion cubic meters. Production (mostly consumption, some export) is about 1 trillion cubic meters/year.
Russia is the world’s big kahuna with 37 Trillion cubic meters. Production, 0.6 Trillion/yr. They will outlast pretty much everyone. And soon. #2 and #3 are Iran and Qatar. Their sum exceeds Russia, but it is all in one place, the big shared field under the Persian Gulf. Pretty easy to see how that could get erased.
When your civilization depends on what is underground, the country with the most ground is the wrong enemy.
I know.
The foaming, frothing, and accusations of putlerian/”literally Hitler!!!” garbage is often hilarious to witness.
The abject crying over a foreign election is also curious.
This depends more on technology. That changes breakeven more than interest rates and prices, and reserve estimates.
In any case, on a long enough timescale tech matters much more than a mineral deposit. Petroleum wasn’t much of an asset until there were technologies that used it. And likewise its certain that tech will appear (and its happening as we speak) that makes it much less relevant.
“More lies, obfuscation and denials.”
Your informal fallacies error only reveal your confusion is without factual basis due to their content and context.
I tried to make reasoned rational sense out of your irrationality,i.e. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4225138/posts?page=31#31.
Repeatedly, I attempted to make excuses for your foolish comments and memes that present false accusations.
The only possibility that now exists for your opining is your repetitive comments are just complete malicious fiction.
Your ipse dixit presumptions project only incivility rather than certitude of my conservative convictions: theological, social, economic and political beliefs.
Facts: are facts. Truth is truth.
You posture simply as an antagonists with retorts to comment with personal sarcastic insults.
I still wish you well. However, I will just skim over and disregard the “foolishness” of your comments by refusing to further reward your behavior.
ARTICLE: Oil info
EIA Confirms Historic U.S. Oil Production Record
Forbes
Robert Rapier
Mar 12, 2024,01:18pm EDT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2024/03/12/eia-confirms-historic-us-oil-production-record/?sh=191ab1864048
VIDEO
IT BEGINS! Russia rapidly loses its territories. Entire battalions surrender. Putin GETS 99.28%
The Russian Dude
242K subscribers
3-19-2024 6:00 a.m. EST
13:55 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGexTJ1dSw0
Putin “wins” the elections with 99.28% of votes in some regions. No doubt, that’s all real, of course.
-Ukrainians repelled enormous number of Russian assaults over the weekend. The defense is strong.
-Anti-Putin forces move deeper. Russian territory shrinks fast. Entire battalions of Z-Army surrender.
0:00 In today’s episode
0:42 Putin “wins” the elections with 99.28%
3:09 Ukrainians repelled lots of big assaults
8:23 Russian territory shrinks. Battalions surrender
VIDEO
Putin Wins Dictator for Life in Russian “Election”
Jake Broe*
443K subscribers
3-18-2024 8:00 p.m. EDT
29:38 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooWIBgWUSqs
*I am a United States Air Force veteran who served as a Nuclear and Missile Operations Officer (13N)
Putin decided to give himself 87% of the final vote in Russia’s presidential election. Meanwhile Russian ground forces have not advanced in weeks and Russian oil refineries continue to take damage and go offline.
The Czech Republic has secured all the funding needed to purchase 800,000 artillery shells for Ukraine and they will be delivered in a couple months.
Links are in the order they appear in the video:
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VIDEO
‘Slaughter’ of Russian troops secures Ukraine’s Dnipro positions | Brandon Mitchell & Maxim Tucker
Times Radio
750K subscribers
3-18-2024 5:30 p.m. EDT
32:47 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVRu9hRy_hk
“Ukrainian special forces have used snowstorms to push Russian troops back from Krynky and other west Dnipro bank positions but need more western support to end Russian artillery dominance”
Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukrainian defenders have eliminated about 432,390 Russian invaders.
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