re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Sometimes, it's useless to keep arguing with fundamentally dishonest people.

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A fundamental fact, but I can't seem to learn the lesson.

My tax dollars get “laundered” right here in EBR.
Anybody that sees how local government functions with NGOs and friends of politicians knows this.
Then there’s all the “studies” and all the big contracts given out to consultants. All the special projects handed out.
Government can not function on an honest basis anymore.
I would br surprised if Ukraine is any better.

But Lying Leon Trotsky told us this guy was a Trump supporter/Republican.

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This should tell you what the DOJ is. They released a bounty/call to action letter supposedly from your fellow Ukraine Call of Duty warrior to the next leftist nut. Maybe I shouldn't have posted that in this thread. The FBI is nothing but the Stasi reincarnated.

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Government can not function on an honest basis anymore.
I would br surprised if Ukraine is any better.

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No different than in WWII. There were artillery shell plants which never produced a useful shell. At least one was in St. Louis.

A now deceased friend, in NOLA, had an uncle who got contracts to make steel bedframes for the military in WWII. He purposely made them and inch short so they were rejected. He sold them for more to the public than he would have to the military. It was the only way to get the metal to make them for sale to the public.

Family friend had a sand pit using hydrocyclones to separate sand by size on the south side of Silsbee, TX.. He sold sand to foundries in Lufkin and to one which made engine blocks in Beaumont under the radar for sale to the public, during WWII.

Also... I mean... that's like 1930s rates for political assassinations, right? Dude doesn't understand inflation.

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You idiots should educate yourselves.

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I saw the clip about Benz's claims about the US companies taking over Russia. Benz was an internet attorney before working for Dept of State. There he worked on treaties for internet and communications.

He's 100% full of shiite about oil. Russia was in the dark ages, pre WWII. They didn't use BOP's for their drilling and didn't give a crap if there was a blowout. Their productivity was less than 1/5 of western drilling crews. Their pipelines leaked like sieves. Fatalities at the workplace were common, whether drilling a well or laying a pipeline. Workers MIGHT get paid in a month or several months later. General Vodka was beating them constantly.
Russian refineries used Western technology to modernize and expand. It was that or simple distillation then process sort of to spec with downstream units given to Russia in WWII by the US.

Before US technology, Russian refineries had only one market for the crude and vacuum unit, bottoms. Mazut heavy fuel oil to burn as boiler fuel, not value added products while squeezing more light ends out of the bottom of the barrel.

Benz is generally full of crap when he goes outside his level of expertise.

As far as Bill Browder, that dude had an entre to Russia because his family was part of Communist Party USA. This is no different than a former congressman, Bob "Filthy" Filner, who later had to resign as mayor of San Diego. His daddy had been Party Secratary of Communist Party USA, Pennsylvania.

Y'all getting duped once again by a believer of lies, if not a liar.

FWIW, Russia could have never developed the oil and gas offshore Sakhalin Island without technology from the West. Exxon's platform drilling rig was a repurposed rig from Alaska, overhauled in Morgan City, as where most of the equipment modules for the onshore processing plant. All the equipment is of US design and built right in the USA. The valves were built in South Korea.

Same goes for Sakhalin II, developed by Shell.

It was typical for Russian state or oligarch owned companies to muscle out Western companies. That happened to a now deceased friend who handled scrapping of half the Russian navy then was muscled out as well as money deposited in Russian banks. He was Belgian and once head of a Belgian steel mill. He lived in NOLA during the 1970s selling wire cable to booming offshore industry when NOLA was the center of the world for offshore deal making for services. Morgan City was the center of the world for fabrication of offshore production platforms. Vicksburg was the center of the world for the most advanced jack up drilling rigs made by Marathon LeTourneau which are mostly made in Singapore these days.

“While you were my choice in 2106 [sic], I and the world hoped that president Trump would be different and better than the candidate, but we all were greatly disappointment and it seems you are getting worse and devolving,” Routh wrote in July 2020. “I will be glad when you gone.”

and with that standard of veracity... 99% of what's reported on this site is not valid.