Another reason Russia wants Ukraine

[Wicked Blue]

Official Website of the International Trade Administration
Energy Resource Guide - Ukraine - Oil and Gas

Ukraine has tremendous natural resources for meeting domestic oil and gas production needs, with estimates of approximately 900 billion cubic meters of proven reserves of natural gas. In Europe, Ukraine ranks second for gas reserves. Three Ukrainian regions contain hydrocarbons resources: the Dnipro-Donetsk basin, the Carpathian region in western Ukraine, and the Black Sea and Crimea region in the south. The Dnipro-Donetsk basin is a major oil and gas producing region accounting for 90 percent of all current Ukrainian production. The structure of hydrocarbons production in Ukraine is as follows: natural gas 89 percent, oil 7.9 percent, and gas condensate 3.1 percent. The primary source of hydrocarbons in Ukraine is natural gas, though the most lucrative gas reserves are located below 5,000 meters.

https://www.trade.gov/energy-resource-guide-ukraine-oil-and-gas

Oil is the root of much evil

[elleng]

1. Ukraine ranks...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/111692499

[Texaswitchy]

2. Putin is a thief.

Natural resources.

[Hoyt]

3. We've been known to invade countries for oil.

[JI7]

4. Which ones ?

[Hoyt]

7. Have you forgotten about Iraq?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Yeah their oil was supposed to pay for our invasion per the neocons.

That didn't quite work out.

[Hoyt]

13. Well, you admit oil was a reason, besides killing innocent Muslims.

[calimary]

18. I remember the smart-ass retort "what's OUR oil doing under THEIR sand?"

Made me wish we could peel ourselves off the oil standard.

[JI7]

11. Bush 1 ? With W Bush it was more about revenge

[Hoyt]

15. May have been, but a substantial part of the public supported the oil aspect.

[qazplm135]

10. ok and?

It was wrong then, it's wrong now.

[GoCubsGo]

5. It also has some of the most fertile soil on the continent.

They don't call it "the Breadbasket of Europe" for nothing.

[roamer65]

8. About 30 pct of world grain production is in the Ukraine.

A prolonged, Afghanistan style quagmire will put grain prices through the roof.

[treestar]

6. If Ukraine doesn't want them

None of that will work. It's not the 18th century. They would have a hell of a time keeping order. How have they not learned that blunt force does not work?

[Joinfortmill]

12. Greedy bastard, Putin.

He may be in for a fall this time.

[sprinkleeninow]

17. From your keyboard to the entire universe. 👍☮

[Roy Rolling]

14. The Test is Here

The business world is switching away from oil and gas, they see the handwriting on the wall.

Dictator-led businesses disguised as countries like Putin’s Russia are too-slow and stupid to face that realty. This is one of the times the Invisible Hand of the Marketplace is peace’s best friend.

It’s like 1800s-era armies fighting over the oats for their horses. Eventually, armies became mechanized and horses were obsolete. The marketplace will make a Russian invasion of Ukraine such a financial drag that citizens of both countries will revolt.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

[58Sunliner]

16. Putin has many objectives. Most are self-serving.

Two articles from the Atlantic-The Reason Putin Would Risk War


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/putin-ukraine-democracy/621465/

And one about diplomacy and Russia.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/lavrov-russia-diplomacy-ukraine/622075/

[Hekate]

19. Long known as the breadbasket of Europe, it took a concerted effort by Stalin to create a famine ...

Any Ukrainian with a memory for their history has no desire for the Russian embrace. It is garbage to say (as Tuckems has done) that Vlad just wants to protect his borders.

From what, pray tell? Far better that the EU recognize Ukraine as the valuable resource it is and as the valuable buffer against Putin that it is. As far as membership in NATO goes, that’s up to the current members — who imagines for a second that Putin gets any say in the membership of that important alliance?

All that and energy resources too.

[hippywife]

20. When I ask myself why Russia even wants Ukraine...

this is the reason that comes up.

[Wicked Blue]

21. More reasons: Ukraine's mineral resources map

Metallic minerals - Mineral Resources of Ukraine
https://eng.minerals-ua.info/golovna/metalichni-korisni-kopalini/