Posted on 12/29/2022 12:42:00 PM PST by dennisw
SWIFT repercussions will not happen in 2023. Russia and the BRICs nations are not strong enough to retaliate. There are no real gas pipelines to Asia, just one pathetic volume Power of Siberia, from Rus to China. Russia's real business was selling gas to Europe via pipelines. This was too nice a situation, so psycho-killer Putin started his great Tsarist war. Putin was bored, so he started this war. The great geo-strategic chess master, Vladimir Putin.
Reality, Putin is just another low life, power crazed 3rd world dictator. Like what you get in Africa and South America all the time.
As far as oil goes. The pathetic Russians can only find Asian buyers by selling it at a 20-30% discount.
Just curious…have you gone to the web sites where that stuff is posted. Almost every day? There is a lot more Uke video than Russian. Yes…I know a lot of it is psyops. But there’s a bunch of stuff out there if you look for it.
Retired as a Major?
He must have all the strategic wisdom of Alexander the Great, Napoleon and von Clauzwitz
Russia is out of shells.
Ukraine is out of men.
SWIFT repercussions will eventually happen.
Just India and China are over triple the population of Europe.
They will be the future for Russia’s gas and oil.
Europe is also “going green” so we’ll see where that gets them.
Just taking account today’s situation is myopic.
Comparing Putin to Idi Amin or Charles Taylor is juvenile.
He’s a bad man, but not some psycho. How long has he been around?
Also, who is after Putin?
In the end, I don’t give a damn if Ukraine or Russia “wins”.
Russia isn’t going to reconstitute the Soviet Empire.
We have so many domestic issues to fix and concentrate on.
“We’re being lied to.”
By everyone involved and that includes our own government.
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Ollie: Most of the $110 billion is spent in the US to defense contractors providing US high skilled jobs and it sends a message to Putin and to China: No more invasions.
The Russian military is in deep do-do!!
Check out what the combined GDP of the BRICS nations including candidates.
Russia will fully reroute its energy to Asia under 5 years.
Europe will be a sort of Argentina at this point and Euros will hate America for it.
Don”t worryabout Ukraine being out of men. America has lots of men. And Biden is more than willing to send every one of them. And his worshipers are willing to send every one except theirselves.
I hope so however, apparently the ‘Patriot’ missile is over rated. Luckily, the ‘Iron Dome’ seems to work well and apparently the US is buying versions of it from Israel.
Rooskie clowns are not even building Power of Siberia pipeline #2 going into China. So what Asian rerouting are you talking about? Selling heavily discounted oil to India? lollllz What a laugh.
The way to reroute hydro-carbons to Asia is via gas pipelines, and the Russians are dormant on this. Punk ass Tsar Putin is too preoccupied with his Ukrainian folly.
Oh, a whole retired major. Nice MSN, next time get a Lance Corporal.
Russia has already won; they hold all the cards. Ukraine will be closed out by the final frost.
The discounts are non-existent at this point, these contracts are bringing more cash than long-term Euro contracts even if lacking in volume.
PS bandwidth is breaking record every day, without Euro red tape PSII is going to be built quite shortly.
“Trust me bro”
This is exactly what Oliver North said in that video. At root, Ollie is an anti-communist Reaganist. So are you and I. We all see Vlad Putin as trying to bring back the old communist USSR. And the USSR's boot on its neighbor's necks. Russia is not communist, but Putin's Russia is trying to revive ye old USSR imperialism. Only problem is, ethnic Russian (real Russians!) birthrates are too low.
Power of Siberia #2 will never be built. Neither Russia or China has the money to spend on it. Russia does not have the manpower, with so many young men being sent to the Ukraine meat grinder.
Get back to me in 1o years. There will still be no Power of Siberia #2.
War is very easy to start, it's the ending which is difficult.
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