Since i know that the whole war in Ukraine has been a dirty thing that caused the lives of many innocent people in the Ukraine...
I have been refraining from posting in this thread.
This short summing of information comes from history books, documentaries and news articles i have seen over the years.
But for once i will gather what i know and learned over the years in a short post :
just after WW1 ,start of exploiting gas fields in Russia and Ukraine but as USSR at the time.
WW2 , pausing of building gas pipelins through Ukraine through countries in Eastern Europe.
After WW2, during 1950s , restarting of building gas pipelines to Eastern Europe starts again, by the USSR.
During 1970s, countries in Western Europe funded the USSR to increase exploiting gasfields in Russia and Ukraine and extend to Western Europe countries.
Later on, Ukraine switched between being a gas exporter through a country that mainly functions as a gas transit.
After the fall of the wall in Germany around 1989, many things changed over the years. Russia had for example Gazprom as gas and oil industry company.
Ukraine has many privately held gas industry companies and Burisma holdings is one of those. Hunter biden used to be in the board of directors at least during year 2016.
I do not know if that still is the case and how long.
Many of those privately held gas industry companies in the Ukraine have connections with powerful foreign non Ukrainian companies or powerful political people, like for example the USA or the Middle East.
Gazprom did not like this, cause now, there is no "free liberal" gasmarket, but everything becomes political again : Russia against part of the USA and the main gas and oil suppliers from the middle east.
The Nordstream and other projects are project that Russia, and mainly Gazprom can be a fully independent gas and oil supplier without being dependent on the Ukraine.
But then during these same years, also came the view of many so called "Western" advisors that "the iron curtain" should be restored.
Then we have the innercountry issues of Ukraine over the years, political parties with different views.
People who want to belong to Russia and people who have different ideologies and different religions.
Also, i remember vagely a news article, at least 20 years ago, about the blocking of gas supplied from Russia through the extensive pipeline fields inside Ukraine during a winter, that left many Eastern Europe countries without much needed gas for at least heating.
Besides all this :
An articel at NewYork Times, about Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden who was vice president of the time while Barack Obama was president and his connection with Burisma holdings.
Donald Trump was the next president. After Donald Trump, Joe Biden was the next president, who came into office around 2021 if i remember correctly.
After President Biden dropped his re-election bid, his administration released records showing that while he was vice president, his son solicited U.S. government assistance.
www.nytimes.com
small excerpt from text :
"
Hunter Biden sought assistance from the U.S. government for a potentially lucrative energy project in Italy while his father was vice president, according to newly released records and interviews.
The records, which the Biden administration had withheld for years, indicate that Hunter Biden wrote at least one letter to the U.S. ambassador to Italy in 2016 seeking assistance for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, where he was a board member.
Embassy officials appear to have been uneasy with the request from the son of the sitting vice president on behalf of a foreign company.
“I want to be careful about promising too much,” wrote a Commerce Department official based in the U.S. Embassy in Rome who was tasked with responding.
“This is a Ukrainian company and, purely to protect ourselves, U.S.G. should not be actively advocating with the government of Italy without the company going through the D.O.C. Advocacy Center,” the official wrote. Those acronyms refer to the United States government and a Department of Commerce program that supports American companies that seek business with foreign governments.
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We have seen this all before...
Just think and remember the last large wars, the last 35 years...
It is too big for us.
Intermezzo about the Netherlands : Minister Jetten who is especially assigned as minister of Energy and Climate...
That same minister Jetten is assigned to help transit the Netherlands into a green country, start to buy USA shale gas and Middle Eastern shale gas.
Which is kind of a big frown of the eyebrows for many people cause the Dutch people are forced to spend a lot of money to become "green". This happened at least one time and happened during the year 2022.
Shale gas is extracted through hydraulic fracturing which is very hazardous for the environment because of the used poisonous chemicals.
The netherlands, who has a lot of issues with the gasfields in Groningen because the drilling has caused ground tremors through collapsing empty gas pockets in the Earth crust.
This causes for small local earthquakes to happen, strong enough to damage houses and buildings.
The Netherlands during this time has been selling gas to the Ukraine.
While Ukraine belongs or belonged to the top 5 of countries with the largest gas reserves in the world according to experts in the oil and gas industry.
End Intermezzo.