Opinion: I’m a Former Moscow Correspondent. Don’t Let Vladimir Putin Fool You—Russia’s War in Ukraine Is Only About One Thing.

Marketwatch/Barron's ^ | Feb 23, 2022 | Lukas I. Alpert

[Dr. Franklin]

For this, Russia pays Ukraine around $2 billion a year in transit fees.

$2 billion never trickles down to the masses when your country is a Russian puppet state. If I am Zelinsky, I would blow up the pipe in Ukraine and try to blow the pipe up in Belarus with a cruise missile. Maybe that would piss off the Belorussians more at Lukashenko for letting Putin wage war on Ukraine through Belarus.

[bankwalker]

See grampa daves recent post about Ukraine history ... rather detailed ...

[353FMG]

And Xi, who is a chemical engineer, also knows about the power of energy in global politics. Don’t you think that Xi and Putin have discussed this subject in detail, for years?

[353FMG]

>>Russia’s financing/propaganda of western climate change movements.<<

Obnoxious Greta is nothing but a commie spy and Biden is fifth column in America.

[RckyRaCoCo]

If the American media are all in lock-step with one-another, using same narrative/words?

...there's your bovine excrement...look for truth elsewhere.

[dljordan]

“That’s how bad inflation is under Jod Biden 🤣🤣🤣”

LOL!!!

[Fireone]

Nothing to do with energy, everything to do with Uranium.

[353FMG]

The corruption in the Ukraine benefited the Biden crime syndicate through Hunter.

[353FMG]

>.Have you lived in the US recently?<<

Sad but true.

[tsomer]

That corruption extended to deals with China as a link in their massive Belt and Road initiative. I can’t imagine anyone accepting a Chinese client state on another of its borders.

[353FMG]

>>If I am Zelinsky, I would blow up the pipe in Ukraine and try to blow the pipe up in Belarus with a cruise missile<<

Why rupture the pipeline twice when one hole does the trick?

[MercyFlush]

Irrelevant. When Ukraine declared independence Russia was the first nation to recognize it. At which point they became sovereign and the fact of their history doesn’t matter if it’s one year or a thousand.

[MercyFlush]

He is referring to two different pipelines.

[lizma2]

He’s think back to the Russian Empire.

With that reasoning he could attack Finland

[elpadre]

It hard ro believe Ukraine has more official corruption than the US - especially in WDC.

[Jaded]

Ah The Arab Spring….brought to you by Obama and the Clintons. It was all about that pipeline.

[Albion Wilde]

Sanctions will never take Putin down.

He can help out from his vast personal fortune; he is said to be one of the richest men in the world. Nice pay, for a former top cop.

[algore]

I have heard over and over today

“Putin is a madman”

I could make a montage of the times I have heard this.

In reality the only real madness I have seen is in DC

[Albion Wilde]

See grampa daves recent post about Ukraine history ... rather detailed ...

And here it is, post 25:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4041216/posts?page=25#25

[KingofZion]

if Mitch Rapp were there he would have blown up those pipelines at key junctures. Maybe also set up some traps when the Ruskies come to repair it.

Cutting off the gas sales will hurt the Ruskies more than the Euros who can buy gas elsewhere. And we are moving out of winter.

It was pretty clear this was coming and the Ukes would never be a match on the battlefield. Have to expand the playing field.