repulsewarrior wrote:...oil and gas have been the issue for decades. Indeed if the Ukraine were to exploit their resources they could replace Russia as the biggest supplier of these energy sources.
What's the difference, "Russian" corruption having gone too far; Ukrainians wanting change.
...then came the Crimea.
Is it a coincidence that prices of oil haven't ever been higher; what with Putin's ambitions to maintain his Monopoly (over the EU), he misses the point, or is it a last Hurrah because the Age of Oil is ending.
...he will be selling his gas for pennies (it is not cheap to get the energy there), to China, without another buyer as big now that he has taken to cut himself out of Europe.
This is not true RW. I remeber the argument Ukraine had with Russia before 2014 and threatened to shut the pipelines to the EU if Russia did not allow her to take some gas.
Ukraimiams did not want change, they wanted to join Nato which is threating Russia. Very simple, that is not change that is joining the enemy. Not quite the same thing is it.