Vipi huyu mtaalamu kaeleweka katika uchambuzi wake kuhusu ukweli wa huu mgogoro?? Au ni propaganda?? Niliwahi kusema vita ni uchumi!
The Ukraine has vast resources of oil, natural gas and coal in addition to kaolin, rare earth metals, grain, cooking oil and more. For example, the Ukraine has almost as much natural gas as Norway which had the largest deposits in Europe.
Russia had long considered Europe as its private market for fossil fuels and grain. They had invested immense money into building pipelines and other infrastructure to service this market.
But after the Ukraine started moving towards wester-style democracy, many western companies started coming forward to offer to assist the Ukraine in developing its own resources, just as they had with Russia in the 1990’s.
If the Ukraine had been allowed to develop its own resources, especially in fossil fuels, it would have been able to
sell them into Europe at vastly lower prices than Russia and would have actually received higher profits. This was something
Putin could not allow since around 60% of Russian state revenue comes from the exports of Russian raw materials, especially to Europe.
NATO is not the problem.
Natural resources is the problem. And notice how closely the Russian penetration into the Ukraine matches the map of its natural resouces.
R. W. Carmichael
Former Intelligence Analyst at U.S. Air Force (1962–1970)Jul 4
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