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We are talking at cross purposes. My comment was about your statement “while reliant upon Russian oil.”, speaking about Germany.

I was pointing out that nobody is reliant on any particular source of oil. So Germany is not reliant on Russian oil.

What Russia does with the oil it may or may not end up stealing from Ukraine has nothing to do with the above.

from the link I gave you:

The Russians weren’t even interested in western Ukraine until oil was found there. Their interest is simply in raping that country. 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.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4044221/posts?page=1#1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmdSzVFSKc

If the Ukes allow some small region in the west to be its own republic, but the OIL belongs to Ukraine, do ya think Pootypoot would allow that? Nope.

We are talking at cross purposes. My comment was about your statement “while reliant upon Russian oil.”, speaking about Germany.
***Yes. Germany as well as the rest of Europe are reliant upon Russian oil. The Russians invaded Ukraine so that they could knock out a competitor to that supplier pipeline and gain the revenues for themselves.

I was pointing out that nobody is reliant on any particular source of oil. So Germany is not reliant on Russian oil.
***You did a poor job of it. Not only that, but this war is about Russia invading Ukraine over oil, this thread is about Germany intervening in that war while being reliant on oil, the whole thing is about oil.

What Russia does with the oil it may or may not end up stealing from Ukraine has nothing to do with the above.
***You haven’t the slightest idea. Russia is stealing the resources of another nation, and Germany is offering to be the “guarantor” of that other nation, all the while trying to keep their pipeline to Russia still open. This whole war is about OIL. If Oil/gas had not been discovered in Ukraine, Russia wouldn’t even be interested in that region.

{Putin blinks} Putin tells Scholz gas payments can continue in euros: Berlin
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4051093/posts?page=39#39
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FLT-bird to Cronos

They had no choice having idiotically made themselves almost completely dependent on Russia for their energy needs.