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Russia's imploding.
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RE: Russia's imploding.
(January 28, 2015 at 8:37 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: But anyway, Putin. You're not the US. You can't get away with interfering in politics outside of your own country by force anymore.
I think that even the US (aside from the far-right) is realizing that it cannot do that anymore either. It costs too much, even for a nation that still has a lot of wealth to buffer bad decisions. That does not seem to be the case with Russia, though I am admittedly ignorant of much of their recent goings-on. If they're really that dependent on oil to keep their economy from collapsing, then they might be the real target of OPEC's decision to keep up supply at the expense of cost-per-barrel.

Doesn't Russia supply a pretty large amount of the natural gas used by Europe? How might Russia's economic problems affect the price and delivery of energy to Europe? And does Putin see it as a way to keep his country from going over the cliff-- basically ransoming energy to his neighbors in a last-ditch effort to keep enough money flowing and the ruble from becoming toilet paper?
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Russia's imploding. - by Creed of Heresy - January 28, 2015 at 8:37 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Tonus - January 28, 2015 at 8:54 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Fidel_Castronaut - January 28, 2015 at 9:00 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Creed of Heresy - January 28, 2015 at 9:02 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Nine - January 28, 2015 at 9:15 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Creed of Heresy - January 28, 2015 at 9:53 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Chas - January 28, 2015 at 9:57 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Nine - January 28, 2015 at 10:03 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Creed of Heresy - January 28, 2015 at 10:18 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Nine - January 28, 2015 at 10:36 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Anomalocaris - January 28, 2015 at 10:57 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Creed of Heresy - January 28, 2015 at 8:34 pm
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Anomalocaris - January 28, 2015 at 8:47 pm
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Thumpalumpacus - January 28, 2015 at 9:06 pm
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Anomalocaris - January 29, 2015 at 1:22 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Thumpalumpacus - January 29, 2015 at 4:05 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Creed of Heresy - January 29, 2015 at 8:28 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Regina - January 29, 2015 at 4:14 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Tonus - February 6, 2015 at 10:17 am
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Mister Agenda - February 6, 2015 at 12:28 pm
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Pizza - February 6, 2015 at 5:27 pm
RE: Russia's imploding. - by Creed of Heresy - February 9, 2015 at 3:24 am

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