Russia & Ukraine

To pay for our costs idiot. He didn't take any oil from anyone. You are extremely anti-American and dishonest AF.

 

All of this. Putin gambled and got in deep with the sharks. The Chinese are going to exploit the bejeebus out of the Russians if these sanctions last. The Russians are coming face to face with what the world looks like after getting economic ties severed with the west while having your military exposed for all of its weaknesses.

I have maintained that Putin has to go for Russia to have a viable future. The only way to reconnect with the west, meaning re-enter the global market and has access to various markets, is for Putin to go. If they cannot diversify their business and become dependent on China they become a welfare state.

 

Mostly agree, though it is hard to be a welfare state with so much energy the west buys.

 

So what, every Russian gets a job on an oil rig?

 

Comrade Student... Be sure to report to your designated learning center for a lesson on the "liberation of the Ukraine".

 

Well that's just great, we were going to NY for six months for my wife to do a course and the course head has cancelled it as he is moving his family out because they fear living at ground zero. I have an assistant hired for her and all.

Fair enough I guess, sign of the times. May change again.

 

And the Mexican guy told him ....''We're NOT going to pay for the fucking wall.''

 

Sorry to hear that.Some people are taking this seriously,as they should imo.I wouldn't be moving yet though.NY would certainly be one of the first places hit.

 

It changes the calculus of how Venezuela will be examined. Or let us just say there will be re-looks.

We were not dealing with VZ because of the brutal dictator and his humanitarian abuses but are still dealing with Putin. What's wrong with that picture.

Just sayin, it is an opportune time for some arrangement whereby VZ oil is developed/begins to flow, whatever. An arrangement wherein a per cent of revenue goes to an internationally supervised commission that confirms that the dollars are going to food, medical care, human type things. I don't know. Not going to work out the details here. Just making the point that some things need a re-look.

Of course Maduro is still in love with Putin and Rosneft the big russian oil outfit is working with them-which was broke even before this latest round, I mean their VZ operation . I know all that. But I also know that it is a new world since last week. Lots of state players out there looking for new buddies. The US included. I can plug my nose for Maduro as easily as for Putin and I am not worried about Venezuela's military.