Mum on Ukraine’s Security Wish List, Putin Instead Sends a Warlord to Mariupol
3/30/2022, 8:57:26 AM · 34 of 44
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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.
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.
Europe Told to Turn Down the Heating in Russia Gas Standoff
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4050969/posts
KEYWORDS: chat; chatforum; fuel; newsforumabuse; oil; proofbyverbosity; russia; tldr; ukenukes; ukewarisaboutoil; ukraine; vanity;
***Regarding newsforumabuse;
When I posted this thread, I had several choices on where to put the thing in news. I chose 5 items, like Extended News, Foreign Affairs, Current Events including vanity. But it said we’re only allowed 4, so I dropped vanity.
I notice that the Putin Puffers aren’t coming onto this thread. They appear to be sniping with keyword abuse. That’s pretty cowardly.
i really appreciate this kind of vanity, nice outside of the box thinking.
When I worked at State, during the invasion of Crimea, we belived Russia was balking at the pipeline fees which made war with Ukraine more possible. We already had two breakaway provinces in Ukraine and fully expected Putin to advance to the River midway across that nation.
In future years we will hear about those fees Ukraine demanded as payment all this time for Russian Oil.... Bookmark this.
What war?
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