Pooh Bear is silly ol’ bear. Chinese propaganda used to be a lot more polished than this tripe.
This will help you understand.
EU to adapt state aid schemes in response to U.S. subsidy package, von der Leyen says
The EU will adapt its state aid rules to prevent an exodus of investment triggered by a new U.S. green energy subsidy package, the bloc's chief executive said on Sunday.www.reuters.com
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By economic bear, you mean the US right? Because so far that relationship has the EU to:
1-Get off cheap Russian gas and being forced to buy American gas at 4x the price. Win for US.
2-Forced them to give up their own arms/defenses for a NON-NATO country, all the while having to replenish those arms from American defense companies. Win for US.
3-Creating hostile trade policies towards EU by creating tax subsidies for companies who produce goods in the US. Win for US.
Maybe you should rethink your example of who the ‘bad bear’ is.
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What the f……..By economic bear, you mean the US right? Because so far that relationship has the EU to:
1-Get off cheap Russian gas and being forced to buy American gas at 4x the price. Win for US.
2-Forced them to give up their own arms/defenses for a NON-NATO country, all the while having to replenish those arms from American defense companies. Win for US.
3-Creating hostile trade policies towards EU by creating tax subsidies for companies who produce goods in the US. Win for US.
Maybe you should rethink your example of who the ‘bad bear’ is.
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If you think about it, what do ordinary Russians get from annexing parts of Ukraine? Any profits from resource extraction is just going to go to the top. Guess there's national pride.Maybe true? Maybe speculation.
Public support in Russia for military campaign 'falling significantly', says UK - as it happened
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Ugh, this is de rigueur in our relationship with our democratic friends. The 27 country EU block has easily has a high enough GDP to counter our efforts in clean energy - it's just hard for them to get on the same page. They are also still too parochial in their military interests and not yet able to assemble a more comprehensive and cooperative European defense apparatus. Also note, from the very article that you've sharedThis will help you understand.
EU to adapt state aid schemes in response to U.S. subsidy package, von der Leyen says
The EU will adapt its state aid rules to prevent an exodus of investment triggered by a new U.S. green energy subsidy package, the bloc's chief executive said on Sunday.www.reuters.com
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The topic is one of several on the agenda of the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council meeting on Dec. 5.
Participants include U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, along with European Commission Executive Vice Presidents Valdis Dombrovskis and Margrethe Vestager.
More arms sales, more expensive LNG sales, and squashing EU competition due to tax subsidies.
How much is resource extraction going to do for Russia anyway? They already have tons of natural resources.If you think about it, what do ordinary Russians get from annexing parts of Ukraine? Any profits from resource extraction is just going to go to the top. Guess there's national pride.
How much is resource extraction going to do for Russia anyway? They already have tons of natural resources.
Russia is poor primarily because of its kleptocratic government. More resources won’t help.
Expanding your territory IS an economic interest regardless of one's intellectual capacity to make good on it.
Yea but this comes as a surprise to even The Vlad himself, so.How much is resource extraction going to do for Russia anyway? They already have tons of natural resources.
Russia is poor primarily because of its kleptocratic government. More resources won’t help.
crimea and the black sea area around it has oil reserves, ukraine pre 2014 had trouble getting western companies to go in on joint ventures to access it. with the annexation russia eliminated a potential competitor who might sell oil/gas to europe lowering the price and thus lowering russian profits.How much is resource extraction going to do for Russia anyway? They already have tons of natural resources.
Russia is poor primarily because of its kleptocratic government. More resources won’t help.
I'm not saying Ukraine doesn't have natural resources, I'm saying the economic case for Russia invading Ukraine to access those resources directly makes no sense. If you have an article that argues otherwise I'm open to reading it though.crimea and the black sea area around it has oil reserves, ukraine pre 2014 had trouble getting western companies to go in on joint ventures to access it. with the annexation russia eliminated a potential competitor who might sell oil/gas to europe lowering the price and thus lowering russian profits.
a google search will bring up a number of articles on this.
if you read my post, it wasnt about taking UKR oil but about preventing UKR from selling their oil to europe.I'm not saying Ukraine doesn't have natural resources, I'm saying the economic case for Russia invading Ukraine to access those resources directly makes no sense. If you have an article that argues otherwise I'm open to reading it though.