Return of the Evil Empire

[truedelphi]

7. Sorry, but your sorry little post needs an education.

Our top officials are relying on taking the Ukraine's resources, so to dismiss both Russia and the Ukraine (Crimea) is rather silly.

Do you not remember the angst shared by both BarackObama and Hillary Clinton when oil tycoon Khodorkovsky had some 20 billions of dollars of oil that he had seized away from the people of Russia, and that oil was returned to the Russian govenment?


Apparently Obama and Hillary Clinton had already promised that stolen oil to some group of their friends, as they expressed much outrage over this.

The Ukraine holds an abundance of riches. I guess you really believe we created a coup back in February just out of the goodness of our hearts and minds, as after all, The USA is, we all know, all about democracy: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=212425

But maybe our governing officials also want some of the resources. From the nternet's Encylcopeida Britanica, here is the skinny on the Ukraine's resources:

Ukraine has extremely rich and complementary mineral resources in high concentrations and close proximity to each other. Rich iron ore reserves located in the vicinity of Kryvyy Rih, Kremenchuk, Bilozerka, Mariupol, and Kerch form the basis of Ukraine’s large iron-and-steel industry. One of the richest areas of manganese-bearing ores in the world is located near Nikopol. Bituminous and anthracite coal used for coke are mined in the Donets Basin. Energy for thermal power stations is obtained using the large reserves of brown coal found in the Dnieper River basin (north of Kryvyy Rih) and the bituminous coal deposits of the Lviv-Volyn basin. The coal mines of Ukraine are among the deepest in Europe. Many of them are considered dangerous because their depth contributes to increased levels of methane; methane-related explosions have killed numerous Ukrainian miners.

Ukraine also has important deposits of titanium ore, bauxite, nepheline (a source of soda), alunite (a source of potash), and mercury (cinnabar, or mercuric sulfide) ores. A large deposit of ozokerite (a natural paraffin wax) occurs near the city of Boryslav. Subcarpathia possesses potassium salt deposits, and both Subcarpathia and the Donets Basin have large deposits of rock salt. Some phosphorites as well as natural sulfur are found in Ukraine.

The three major areas producing natural gas and petroleum in Ukraine are the Transcarpathian region, exploited since the late 19th–early 20th centuries, and the Dnieper-Donets and Crimean regions, both developed since World War II. Following World War II, the extraction of natural gas in Ukraine soared until it accounted for one-third of the Soviet Union’s total output in the early 1960s. Natural gas production declined after 1975, however, and a similar pattern of growth and exhaustion occurred with Ukraine’s petroleum, ultimately making the republic a net importer of these fuels.