Thanks for posting this I found it extremly informative.
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Russia has no right to a sphere of influence when it is a dictatorship whereas the alternative is a democracy.
Putin fears the success of ukraine -- showing ordinary russians what freedom, peace and prosperity look like.
The young ones in Putin's Rushka probably already have a taste for what comes from the west however :)
No denying that or the fact they are being denied things from the West by virtue of Putin's tactics on the Ukrainan cousins.. how will that go down as time goes on ?
In regards to oil maybe some pressure can be put on the middle east. Some until now, hidden war crimes from saudi arabia coming to light?
It's not like the entire region is doing much good, with our money.
NZ doesn't really need to with 90% renewable energy and EVs everywhere.
Similar to food prices we can expect NZ business to charge top dollar for oil when its finally built.
So no real necessity to be importing 20% of our fuel from Ruska is there ? ;)
The rigs aren't built though are they ? a matter of leased or hired to do the job is it not ?
Oil is always priced at International prices is it not ? :)
That's standard globally .. so no real excuse to be grumbling about it :)
German stocks enter bear market
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/rus...xJ0y5o7rd7PPaH