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re: The Official Thread: Russia invades Ukraine

Posted on 5/12/22 at 7:40 am to
Posted by Palmetto98
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 7:40 am to
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You don't rush to sign a 40 billion dollar bill for Ukraine if they are winning. That was a "oh shite, we are losing bigly" bill.


The reality of the situation is that Russia has essentially beheaded Ukraine and turned it to basically an inflated Moldova by seizing its most resource rich areas and putting it in a position of blockading it to death. Despite the pro-Ukraine narrative, Russia doesn’t need Kiev or to annex the rest of Ukraine and it would make zero sense to do but I know we gotta spin it to look good for Ukraine somehow…THEY RETREATED

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N.Korea has trillions in mineral wealth ( far more than S Korea) , but no one to develop or markets to sell most of it . Putin miscalculated greatly.


Russia isn’t North Korea, dear god get off Yahoo News or CNN for a change. It’s actually the other way around. Ukraine was sitting under a pool of untapped resources that could challenge Russia’s advantage in the European market. However, it couldn’t because the country is a cesspit like North Korea until like 2014 where it started flirting with the idea.
This post was edited on 5/12/22 at 7:44 am
Posted by sugar71
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 7:51 am to
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like North Korea until like 2014 where it started flirting with the idea.
So who is going to buy all of these minerals & hydrocarbons from Russia? Production in Russia is going to decline so how are they going to develop untapped Ukrainian sources with few buyers?

Posted by Obtuse1
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Member since Sep 2016
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 11:28 pm to
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Ukraine was sitting under a pool of untapped resources that could challenge Russia’s advantage in the European market. However, it couldn’t because the country is a cesspit like North Korea until like 2014 where it started flirting with the idea.



Actually time-wise it is just the opposite.

Exxon, Shell, and OMV had poured 100s of millions of dollars into their partnership with Ukraine to extract oil in the Black Sea and the land shale fields. When Russia took Crimea in 2014 Russia "stole" all these companies' drilling and extraction infrastructure. Since that time Ukraine has had a hard time finding partners to help extract their underground treasure.

Russia not only took an incredible amount of value from Ukraine in 2014 but they also handcuffed them from being able to exploit their wealth.

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