Kerry: Putin is going to lose

[paulitician]

Kerry is a globalist and should not be trusted.

And a Communist to boot. Another NWO asshole.

 

[tinydancer]

And the hits just keep on coming boys and girls. Just about everyday I'm reading an article in the mainstream media how Putin screwed up majorly by attacking Crimea. As a result, the Russian economy is taking a hit here and there. The world no longer views Putin as a trustable leader to do business with. In fact, some are comparing Putin's attack with Bush's attack on Iraq. We all know how that turned out for Bush, don' we?





Has Russia painted itself into a financial corner?

Has Russia painted itself into a financial corner? - CBS News

Moscow now controls Crimea, following its de facto land grab from Ukraine. But according to some experts, that gain in real estate might come at the cost of serious damage to Russia's economy.

You keep on believing Americas Pravda errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr media. Too funny.

Look at what Russia gained by the Crimean vote to rejoin Russia.

Without Crimea, Ukraine looks set to lose an important piece of its economic and energy future: valuable undersea oil and gas fields that lie just offshore the Crimean peninsula.

Exploiting those Black Sea fields could help reduce Ukraine’s dependence on Russian gas imports.

And Big Oil had been interested: Before the overthrow of former President Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine was on the verge of signing a deal with a group, including Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.B), that was prepared to spend $735 million to drill two wells off Crimea’s southwest coast.

“Exxon and Shell are now in a legal limbo,” Chris Weafer of Moscow investment group Macro Advisory told Bloomberg News. If Crimea votes in a March 16 referendum to secede from Ukraine, the government in Kiev “may soon no longer have jurisdiction over the region.”

The so-called Skifska area that Exxon and Shell want to develop is part of an undersea field that extends westward along the Black Sea coastline to Romania. Within the area now under Ukrainian jurisdiction, however, “the most interesting exploration areas are all effectively [under] Crimean waters,” says Julian Lee, an analyst at the Center for Global Energy Studies in London.

Losing control of those areas “would be a significant loss for Ukraine.”

Losing Crimea Could Sink Ukraine's Offshore Oil and Gas Hopes - Businessweek

 

[georgephillip]

I see, so Putin took Crimea so it wouldn't fall into the hands of a few r-wing extremists? Funny!

Putin "took" Crimea because elements of the US State Department conspired to overthrow the democratically elected leader of a state on his western border:

"In the intercepted phone call between US Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt, the two were, as Russian expert Stephen Cohen put it to Democracy Now, 'plotting a coup d’état against the elected president of Ukraine.'

"At one point in the call, Nuland endorsed 'Yat(s)' as the head of a new government, referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk of the Fatherland Party, who indeed is now acting prime minister. But she went on to say that Svoboda leader Oleh Tyahnybok should be kept 'on the outside.'

"Her plan to sideline Tyahnybok as a post-coup player, however, may be wishful thinking, given the importance of the party in the demonstrations.

Tyahnybok is an anti-Semite who says 'organized Jewry' controls the Ukraine’s media and government, and is planning 'genocide' against Christians. He has turned Svoboda into the fourth-largest party in the country, and, this past December, US Senator John McCain shared a platform and an embrace with Tyahnybok at a rally in Kiev."

The Dark Side of the Ukraine Revolt | The Nation

That...

"elements of the U.S. State Department conspired to overthrow the democratically elected leader of a state on his western border"

is pure conjecture and you know it.

I know the US has meddled in the affairs of Ukraine virtually since the Wall came down in Berlin (remember the Orange Revolution), and I don't see how the word "conjecture" applies to this conversation between Victoria Nuland and the US ambassador to Ukraine:

"Nuland: OK. He's now gotten both Serry and [UN Secretary General] Ban Ki-moon to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday. So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and to have the UN help glue it and, you know, Fuck the EU"

BBC News - Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call

 

[1776]

Shitbag....why don't you tell us about all the money Viktor Yanukovych stole from the people of Ukraine before he bolted for RUSSIA.

Yeah, he is a thief.

Any oil deals made by "Ukraine" with him in charge was really lining his pockets and Russian's pockets, you stupid fucking bitch.

And the hits just keep on coming boys and girls. Just about everyday I'm reading an article in the mainstream media how Putin screwed up majorly by attacking Crimea. As a result, the Russian economy is taking a hit here and there. The world no longer views Putin as a trustable leader to do business with. In fact, some are comparing Putin's attack with Bush's attack on Iraq. We all know how that turned out for Bush, don' we?





Has Russia painted itself into a financial corner?

Has Russia painted itself into a financial corner? - CBS News

Moscow now controls Crimea, following its de facto land grab from Ukraine. But according to some experts, that gain in real estate might come at the cost of serious damage to Russia's economy.

You keep on believing Americas Pravda errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr media. Too funny.

Look at what Russia gained by the Crimean vote to rejoin Russia.

Without Crimea, Ukraine looks set to lose an important piece of its economic and energy future: valuable undersea oil and gas fields that lie just offshore the Crimean peninsula.

Exploiting those Black Sea fields could help reduce Ukraine’s dependence on Russian gas imports.

And Big Oil had been interested: Before the overthrow of former President Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine was on the verge of signing a deal with a group, including Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.B), that was prepared to spend $735 million to drill two wells off Crimea’s southwest coast.

“Exxon and Shell are now in a legal limbo,” Chris Weafer of Moscow investment group Macro Advisory told Bloomberg News. If Crimea votes in a March 16 referendum to secede from Ukraine, the government in Kiev “may soon no longer have jurisdiction over the region.”

The so-called Skifska area that Exxon and Shell want to develop is part of an undersea field that extends westward along the Black Sea coastline to Romania. Within the area now under Ukrainian jurisdiction, however, “the most interesting exploration areas are all effectively [under] Crimean waters,” says Julian Lee, an analyst at the Center for Global Energy Studies in London.

Losing control of those areas “would be a significant loss for Ukraine.”

Losing Crimea Could Sink Ukraine's Offshore Oil and Gas Hopes - Businessweek

 

[georgephillip]

Ukraine: New Leaders, Same Oligarchs » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

"With the (Ukrainian) state apparently falling apart, the history of the 'revolution' may already be a tale of missed opportunities.

"Alexander Tkachenko, an official in the Party of Regions in Luhansk, 30km from the Russian border, admits he was shocked, 'as everyone was,' by Yanukovych’s palatial villa with its gold toilets: 'When we were young, we learned the old slogan "Peace to the Cottages! War on the Palaces!" But corruption has eaten away at the whole country.'”

"The people of eastern Ukraine might have joined those of western Ukraine in a single opposition movement against the oligarchs and corruption.

"But over-enthusiastic Ukrainian nationalism has turned off Russian-speakers in the east, and supporters of the former president talk of the 'the fascist threat'.

"In just a few weeks, the manipulation of these fears and identity issues has brought the country to the verge of civil war."

Corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine have the same problem as their US ilk: how to replace one group of rich, compliant politicians with another equally venal element without risking "War on the Palaces."

Palaces are built from the ruins of cottages...