Wow...I said this was what is going to happen. As the West levies their petty sanctions against Russia...Russia says they don’t “need” us and those pipelines in the Ukraine? They get shut-off! Now that is what I call one harsh sanction against Obama’s hubris.
Some here want to make fun of Putin etc., but it is naïve to underestimate this man. None of what he is doing has not be carefully and strategically planned. The global shift is on and America & Europe is far behind in the battle plans.
So Russia turns to the East...what then of our China imports and debt? What then if China sanctions America and cuts off food imports? Forget the “electronics” end of things, do you realize how much food we actually import? How much we export to China for processing because we CAN’T process it here due to any number of regulatory factors?
While these events are worrisome and I believe the 0bama regime will epically fail at this chess game, one must admire the game being played, by master player Putin.
So the question becomes how does Putin and the Muslims fit together?
“So the question becomes how does Putin and the Muslims fit together?”
Better question. Why did the Chinese abstain rather than cast a veto?
Putin’s Russia has a violent history with both Islamic and Chinese territories . . . spanning centuries. Why would they trust the Russians?
Money? How much?
“As the West levies their petty sanctions against Russia...Russia says they don’t “need” us and those pipelines in the Ukraine? They get shut-off!”
In the long run, economical sanctions don’t work.
We only have to look back at the end of the 80ies, when Reagan convinced Saudi Arabia to open the tabs and flood the market with cheap oil. It hurt Yeltsin’s Russia then. In 1995 Russia made some $40 billion from oil export. It makes now over $400 billion a year.
Besides Russia is the first natural gas exporter in the world, which brings in another $160 billion a year.
Meanwhile Germany and Japan have abandonned the nuclear energy and rely heavily on gas imports.
Germany increased its import of Russia gas from 26% to 40% last year. Japan spent some $70 billion on gas import last year.
In Europe fraking is forbidden by the EU regulations, so the continental countries have no other choice than relying on Russian natural gas from 70 to 100% of their energy needs. Battered Ukraine depends also on Russian gas at 66%.
I really don’t see in the short run Europe committing economic suicide, just to please Obama and his Clowns United team.
So the question becomes how does Putin and the Muslims fit together?
They don’t.