I had watched that video too. Seems like a shallow motive. As some commenters pointed out, there must be a lot of undiscovered gas and oil reserves in Siberia yet. Could have some weight, but not a lot.
Seems quite plausible. The 3 world powers are undeniably NATO+allies, Russia and China. 2 going against one another heavily favors the 3rd (I also have some paranoid thoughts regarding the virus on this matter). However, the NATO+allies bloc is quite large. We have Australia, Japan, South Korea, and probably also most of South America. And indeed, I would be happy if Russia was part of NATO, considering the Chinese threat. On the other hand, on real matters we have much more to fear from Russia’s behavior than China’s. Russia has made way more wars, has a much worse human rights record, and has shown much more adversity towards us, with a much more unstable leadership. China seems peaceful, the question is with a dictatorship it can always change over night.
Doesn’t seem too likely, takes much more than a Bay of Pigs to conquer Ukraine.
If Ukraine can sell gas to the EU, then Russia looses an immensely strong advantage. The size of Russian gas reserves in Siberia makes no difference for that. All that is needed is for Ukraine to have enough gas to supply Europe for another few years/decades, until the Green energy revolution comes along further.
I had watched that video too. Seems like a shallow motive. As some commenters pointed out, there must be a lot of undiscovered gas and oil reserves in Siberia yet. Could have some weight, but not a lot.
Seems quite plausible. The 3 world powers are undeniably NATO+allies, Russia and China. 2 going against one another heavily favors the 3rd (I also have some paranoid thoughts regarding the virus on this matter). However, the NATO+allies bloc is quite large. We have Australia, Japan, South Korea, and probably also most of South America. And indeed, I would be happy if Russia was part of NATO, considering the Chinese threat. On the other hand, on real matters we have much more to fear from Russia’s behavior than China’s. Russia has made way more wars, has a much worse human rights record, and has shown much more adversity towards us, with a much more unstable leadership. China seems peaceful, the question is with a dictatorship it can always change over night.
Doesn’t seem too likely, takes much more than a Bay of Pigs to conquer Ukraine.
If Ukraine can sell gas to the EU, then Russia looses an immensely strong advantage. The size of Russian gas reserves in Siberia makes no difference for that. All that is needed is for Ukraine to have enough gas to supply Europe for another few years/decades, until the Green energy revolution comes along further.