Posted on 03/30/2022 10:10:13 AM PDT by Kevmo
Mum on Ukraine’s Security Wish List, Putin Instead Sends a Warlord to Mariupol
3/30/2022, 8:57:26 AM · 34 of 44
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4050884/posts?page=34#34 gleeaikin to NorseViking; Kevmo; SoCal Pubbie; Williams; BiglyCommentary; rrrod; Meet the New Boss; All
This Feb. 2019 Forbes article clearly defines the great loss to Ukraine caused by Putin’s 2014 seizure of Crimea. Even if a plebecite should prove the people of Crimea prefer a totalitarian corruption ridden Russia to a corruption ridden Ukraine, at the very least the large “exclusion zone” shown in this article’s map should be reopened to Ukriane’s use and control regarding resources. An excellent sanction against Putin’s greed and cruelty.
At the very least, Putin has caused enough destruction in Ukraine, that any oil profits would have to go into rebuilding cities, rather than doing the kind of development that could make Ukraine an important modern European country. What a damn shame!!
What is most astonishing is the fact that so little has been mentioned about the whole Ukraine has petroleum reserves issue, and the places where they are constitute the precise main target of Putin’s massive attacks.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4050773/posts?page=14#14
I don’t think Putin is after a “formidable barrier” against NATO. He’s after the oil & gas.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4050271/posts?page=123#123
Look at the Azov Natural Gas Preserves region, and then look at Russia’s Occupation Map. He has captured all the land mass of the preserve and all the access land to the underwater portion of that preserve.
Now we see another part of the resource wars. Until recently the aluminum ore, bauxite, was being imported to Ukraine from Guinea, and then processed into Aluminia. This was then shipped to Russia for manufacture of aluminum objects of general commerce. The link below explains a lot about this business, and also mentions Hunter Biden.
This explanation makes more sense to me than the “Putin feels threatened by NATO expansion” excuses for the invasion.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044221/posts?page=1#1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmdSzVFSKc
The map on the right side, tells you all Russia wanted... Note the Southern Ukraine land grab.
LINK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Note the overlay from the land grab below. All land above this preserve, all land adjacent to the under sea portion of the Azov Natural Gas preserve...
LINK https://64.media.tumblr.com/b0de897e064daa66864fb2d3f06eef80/tumblr_n5k0yfhJmy1rasnq9o1_1280.png
I’m inclined to think Putin is more interested in owning the material assets of Ukraine than he is worried about being attacked by NATO. In that regard, he’s no better than a common thief.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044221/posts?page=1#1
I absolutely HATE it when someone posts a YouTube video as an article.
Yet, here I am doing exactly that...
This video is 10 minutes and two seconds long, and is the best explanation I’ve seen so far as to why Putin and Russia 1) Invaded Crimea in 2014, 2) has been waging a proxy war in the “breakaway” regions of Donetsk and Luhansk since 2014, and 3) why Putin is invading the remainder of Ukraine in 2022.
For those of you unable or unwilling to watch the video (I do recommend spending the 10 minutes of your time,) here’s my very poor Cliff Notes version:
Russia gets 60% of its revenues from oil exports. Europe gets 40% of their oil from Russia.
In 2012 massive oil and gas reserves were found in Crimea. Crimea signed a $10 billion exploration contracts with Shell and Chevron to develop the new found oil and gas fields. These oil and gas products would compete in Europe with Russia’s oil and gas, reducing Russia’s oil revenues, which we recall amount to 60% of their total GDP. Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, cancelling the contracts with Shell and Chevron.
But Ukraine still had massive reserves in, you guessed it, Donetsk and Luhansk, and other areas East of the Dnieper River. In 2019, Energy Secretary Rick Perry visited Ukraine, and soon after Ukraine awarded exploration contracts to a consortium of U.S. oil companies. Again, these oil reserves would compete in Europe with Russian oil, so Putin is invading Ukraine to shut down this latest attempt to extract Ukrainian oil and sell it in competition with Russian oil.
This explanation makes more sense to me than the “Putin feels threatened by NATO expansion” excuses for the invasion.
1 posted on 3/6/2022, 11:09:00 AM by Yo-Yo
Control over oil and natural gas reserves is real power.
Why do you think Hillary Clinton was so interested in Libya in 2011? Oil.
Interesting how both Egypt/Libya and Ukraine had astro-turfed revolutions previous to “western aligned” governments being installed.
So far, Egypt’s and Libya’s “western aligned” governments have failed.
Russia is working on bringing down Ukraine’s “western aligned” government now.
Pretty much traditional Russian culture upholding brigands.
Putin is more interested in material assets of Ukraine than he is worried about being attacked by NATO.
***I shortened it a bit so that your comment could fit on a tagline. I’ll update the tagline page
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3992415/posts?q=1&;page=394#394
Great research.
You are definitely on to something here.
I definitely agree. Oil and other resources.
Russia and Germany have a long history of going after another country’s minerals.
Let’s not forget yours and mine:
To: lapsus calami
How many Rukes could a suitcase nuke, if the juked Ukes could nuke Rukes?
By fluke a nootcase suitcase nuke would duke a huke of Rukes, if a juked Uke could nuke Rukes.
Would nuked Rukes duke a huke of Ukes if the kook Ukes nuked the Rukes?
A pootypoot puke, a mookie Ruke, would duke the fluky Ukes.
Gadzooks.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4050125/posts?page=43#43
Ukrainian forces recapture Trostyanets, Poltavka and Malynivka from Russian troopers
3/27/2022, 12:45:13 PM · 41 of 54
lapsus calami to Kevmo
How many Rukes could the Ukes nuke, if the Ukes could nuke Rukes
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