Posted on 12/29/2022 12:42:00 PM PST by dennisw
Putin’s trying to recreate Imperial Russia - restore the 1914 borders; not restore the USSR! A restored Imperial Russia can be just as dangerous as a communist one. Actually, it may prove more so!
***** It is so bad for stupid Russia, that they are sometimes selling oil to India at less than production costs. Russians got to move that oil or the pipes and valves will freeze and burst up in the permafrost regions. Where the Russian oil is lifted from, then transported. Why the bursting? Because there is some water in that Ural’s oil. It expands when it freezes.
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Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in February, India has become the main outlet for seaborne cargoes of Urals crude.
For some deals this month, the price for Urals in Indian ports, including insurance and delivery by ship, has fallen to around minus $12-$15 per barrel versus a monthly average of dated Brent, down from a discount of $5-$8 per barrel in October and $10-$11 in November, the sources said.
The discounts mean oil is in some cases being sold at below overall production cost including local levies, industry sources said.
I agree, but it applies to all pontificators.
That includes Col MacGregor and Scott Ritter, as well as Denis Davidov (?) and all the other pontificators that try to sway one side or the other.
I don’t want to hear ANY anal-ysis, because that is just propaganda.
Facts only. I am very interested in where the front is daily, how many missiles or shells were used, tanks or APC destroyed, just regular order of battle stuff. I can anal-ize on my own.
. . . and they WERE in very big trouble until December 1940 when Hitler’s troops were almost simultaneously halted on the outskirts of Leningrad, Moscow and were unable to break out of Stalingrad.
In the case of fake, phony Tsar Putin. He is an old school Russian imperialist. Yes, he aspires to Russia's 1914 borders more than the USSR borders. Of course the Tsar ruled in 1914.
"Tsar Nicholas II Answer: In 1914 Tsar Nicholas II was the leader of Russian Empire as an absolute monarch, the throne he inherited from his late father, Alexander. The Empire included Poland, Finland and large parts of Transcaucasia. The majority were slaves and dozens of other nationalities of Jews and Turks. Who ruled the Russian Empire in 1914? - TimesMojo www.timesmojo.com/who-ruled-the-russian-empire-in-1914/ "
US military/government/country is headed for major trouble in 2023.
I think we agree.
Only Putin invaded. US Senators are irrelevant and command no armies. Should I file your post under “Poking the stupid, primitive, parasite called the Russian bear”?
The best situation would have been for Putin to fulfil Russia’s destiny. Which is to be a Third World gas fill-up station for Europe and the rest of the world.
Yeah, good one. Not a word needed.
Retired Major?? Seriously?
Same with Obama and he is actually from Africa.
https://www.txtreport.com/business/2022-11-21-embargo-in-flight--great-britain-continues-to-buy-oil-from-russia.B1wlCsO8j.html
Again with the reference to WWII.
Russia is not the country it was in WWII.
Their military is anemic. Their system is corrupt. Their equipment is failing them.
As long as Russian soldiers are dying, the West will continue to support them.
Russia as a superpower is over. The only thing that makes them a country that we have to pretend to respect are their nukes. Aside from the nukes, they are an embarrassment.
Russia lost all those people in WWII not because they were heroic or a great Army; they lost them due to tactics that date back to the Huns. Those no longer apply.
Losses and suffering seem to be the card the Russia supporters play often. Losing and suffering are not ideals to which one should aspire. It just makes that country a pained loser.
Decent tactics are easily learned. Russians don’t want to change a 100 year old doctrine because they know that military thinkers—if allowed to have the empowerment—would March on Moscow and toss those fools out on their asses.
SWIFT repercussions might and I say might, kick in years from now. India and China buy Russian oil at discounted prices. Europe paid the full freight price. Putin screwed up a great deal that ain't coming back anytime soon. Stop promoting Asian buyers with their effed up economies. They are not heroes riding to Russia's rescue. They are cheap ass and will only buy from Russia at discounted prices.
India has been buying Russian crude at prices lower than what it costs Russia to produce it/ and transport it to the port of shipment. >>>> https://www.ndtv.com/business/russian-oil-sold-to-india-at-deeper-discounts-below-price-cap-report-3606709
“Look the 50+ former intelligence professionals who said Hunter Biden’s laptop was a Russian Disinformation, how many of them have apologized ??”
They were more clever than that. They actually said it has all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation but that they didn’t know whether it was or not.
Then they relied on their useful idiots in the media to turn that letter into, “yup, it’s Russian disinformation.”
“...Putin’s initial strategy of overtaking Kyiv in April was a failure...”
Ya spelled “feignt” wrong. And anybody who proclaims different is in kindergarten warrior class.
Seriously stupid article.
So much emotion makes it difficult to have a ration argument about “national interest”, but it may explain your lying. Pumping gas can pay bills like any other job.
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for December 30, 2022:
- Russia conducts what may be the largest missile strike so far during the special military operation;
- Ukraine's power grid continues to be degraded;
- Fighting continues around Bakhmut;
- Western analysts insist Russian fighting around Bakhmut is "senseless" but it suits Russia's strategy of attrition;
- Russia is also building extensive defensive structures across the line of contact;
- These lines force Ukrainian offensive troops to spend more time in well-prepared fields of fire resulting in major casualties;
- Russia appears to be settling into a protracted war of attrition while protecting its lines with these major defensive works.
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