Oil has been relatively cheap, you can verify that. The last peak last less than 4 months, from the start of the Ukraine war until June 2020. Since August 2020, it has returned to 2021 average price. Russian oil went to China and India. What China and India didn't buy from the Gulf states, Europe bought more. Oil has not been a powerful factor in the war after all. Blocking Suez, Panama canals or the Hormuz strait would be more consequential.Some truths in that, but heavily dependant on your idealism which won't all happen.
And you've completely left out the most important element, Russia and it's huge cheap resources including cheap energy for Europe. Why do you miss the obvious?
I reckon the West has always been keeping in touch with Putin, if it's not public. The truth is Europe has always been fearful of Russia because she does not see democracy in the same way we do. Russia is an empire, just ask the Mongolians, Chechens etc, and has been ruled by strong men for most of the years since the last Tsar. That and the number of nuclear warheads she has, enough for extinction level of the human race. I think Europe can cope with a conventional Russian invasion like the Ukraine war but still needs the USA to provide us with a second layer nuclear umbrella as last resort. We don't really need US troops on the ground. We have enough industrial base to outlast Russia.I correctly forecast the Ukraine war start and its course and what Russia was aiming to gain and did. I correctly forecast a year ago that the West would soon be talking to Putin again and that soon we'll be trading with Russia because we in Europe desperately need to for cheaper energy. It's taken Trump to start that now, but it would have happened anyway before long as the population's pain bit deeper.
The world will care for oil and gas for decades yet, all the green gains by the richer being cancelled as the third world take their places in the fossil fuel queue we are still in at present.
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No question of that in theory as Ukraine alone has caused Russia so much trouble, but does Europe have the will? I say it doesn't since the people have had enough suffering from the Ukraine war alone and won't accept more.I think Europe can cope with a conventional Russian invasion like the Ukraine war
rightly so. Vance is a lawyer, he is in full control of what he said.![]()
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Would you like to see Eire leave the EU and NATO? Switch away from the euro, adopt the dollar or the rouble? Abandon parliamentary democracy for autocracy, hand over power to a Putin or a trump or a vance? Hand over the budget to a musk?EUSSR all bots, operated remotely, just like msm:
"This is an existential threat to our democracy" line, ad nauseum![]()