Shale oil producers in the US got a very painful disappointment a few years ago when oil was cheap and shale oil production became unprofitable. Now it's profitable again, but investment is in no hurry to return to the industry, because the "greens" in the US and Europe now have a very strong lobby. Their favorite mantra is renewable energy and they are full of contempt for fossil energy sources.

The 'problem with Ukraine' is the dementia and courage of Ukrainian nationalists. Scandinavians are more balanced people.

Sweden has already stated that its accession to NATO will not entail the appearance of NATO military bases and nuclear weapons on its territory. I think Finland will prudently follow its example, because Putin, in a conversation with the President of Finland, clearly said that this was a mistake. It's time to start listening to what Putin says, because he has already shown that he is not bluffing or joking.

The hopes of young men are nourished.

The dog barks, the caravan moves on. Residents of the Kherson region will have a chance to express their will in a referendum. In the meantime, Ukraine has stopped paying pensions and social benefits to residents of the Kherson region, and Russia is doing this for Ukraine. And Ukraine shoots at residential areas, this is the only thing it knows how to do well.

Mariupol was not bombed, Azovstal was bombed.

Rumors about the Russian blitzkrieg are based on the value judgment of the US intelligence, which in the course of one year made a gross mistake twice - first in Afghanistan, and then in Ukraine, incorrectly assessing the combat effectiveness of local armies. I repeat once again, the opinion that Kyiv will hold out for 3-4 days in the event of aggression from Russia belongs to the CIA. Russia is running its operation at its own pace on its own schedule and it will end when Russia says "enough".

Putin said today that he has no problems with Finland and Sweden. But if their entry into NATO entails existential threats to Russia in the form of NATO military bases or US nuclear arsenals appearing on their territory, then Russia will make its military-technical response, whatever that means.

Russia is using soft power tactics to sway the sympathies of Ukrainian civilians. Therefore, the Kherson region has already announced its withdrawal from Ukraine and the desire to join Russia. Russia acts in Ukraine not as an occupier, but as a liberator. This is much more difficult and longer than bombing everything with air bombs and cleaning up the ruins. But in the long run, it's a winning strategy.

It's amazing, Russia accounts for only 2% of world GDP, but it seems that this is the very necessary two percent that you can eat, pour into the gas tank of a car or heat a house with them in winter. And everything else is just numbers on the stock exchange.

It seems that progress has finally been made with Azovstal. Right now, a silence regime has been declared and an agreement has been reached on the surrender of 650 wounded Azov fighters to the DPR. No extraction, surrender.

Because the three horsemen of the Apocalypse come together one after another - Plague, War and Famine.

This is another European cargo cult, this time performed by Austria.

Опасения сильные у него, загугли вон хоть за Посейдон - это абсолютно лютая хуерга и она на боевом дежурстве, как и Воевода (по классификации НАТО это Сатана). А Сармат это Сатана два, тоже ёбаный пиздец, но более лучший.  

Ипонцам или англосаксам половинки одного Посейдона хватит для полной ускоренной демилитаризации методом погружения. А любому американскому авианосцу хватит одного Кинжала даже и с обычным тротилом. Подумай об этом на досуге.

Europe is making apparently suicidal attempts to turn off Russian energy and the European economy is heading towards collapse at high speed. In such circumstances, I consider the systematic cutting off of economic ties between Russia and Europe quite reasonable, so that sinking Europe does not drag Russia along with it.

To be precise, in Germany, the number of terminals for receiving liquefied natural gas is now zero. Currently, four terminals are being urgently built, the first should be commissioned at the end of 2022 or at the beginning of 2023.

You are in too much of a hurry and too early to sum up. This story hasn't even really begun yet, we can say now we are witnessing a prelude, or maybe the first act. Russia has made its first move in this economic war that the West has declared against it and has imposed sanctions on all Gazprom subsidiaries in Europe and around the world. Now all long-term contracts have become invalid, because they were not signed directly with Gazprom, but with its subsidiaries, which are now under sanctions. Contracts will have to be renegotiated (or not), under the terms of Russia with payment to Gazprombank and conversion into rubles, and at other prices. Germany will no longer be able to make huge money on the reverse of Russian gas. Poland can scream all you want about its rejection of Russian gas, but the gas it received in reverse from Germany was suddenly also Russian. The next cycle of payments for gas already supplied by Russia should be in the range from 15 to 20 May. Have some patience.

You know nothing about Russian missiles, but I see no reason to try to convince you - so be it. The main thing is that the Pentagon knows this, whose head Lloyd Austin recently said that in the present and future, the nuclear arsenal that Russia has presents serious difficulties for the United States.

NATO's strategy is to get closer to Russia and thus reduce the reaction time for the Russian missile defense system. Russia's strategy is to have a significant advantage in the means of delivering nuclear weapons, by increasing the range and speed of missiles. NATO and Russia are both quite successful in their strategies, but whose strategy is more effective I hope I will never know in practice.

In simple words, Russian missiles are now so fast and long-range that NATO does not have adequate countermeasures. They can fly over the North Pole, bypassing NATO missile defense systems, they can even fly over the South Pole. This is if we are talking about land-based missiles, and Russia's nuclear triad also includes sea- and air-based missiles, which are on constant combat duty. In the event of a serious mess, I would not hesitate to bet on Russia. To effectively intercept missiles, you need to be twice (and preferably four times) faster. At the moment, any NATO missiles are noticeably slower than Russians. As Biden said about the Kinzhal hypersonic missile, it's an ordinary missile, it's just almost impossible to intercept it. And Russia has missiles two to three times faster than Kinzhal, as well as the S-500 missile defense system, capable of intercepting hypersonic missiles, which NATO, in principle, still does not have. It is technically not easy to make a rocket for which flight in a cloud of hot plasma is a regular mode of operation, well, Russian engineers succeeded. Old school rocket science has no unsolvable problems.

You seem to be a sane person, but you eat all sorts of shit and don’t even wince. Tank special forces on a minibus lol.

What kind of evidence do you need? That Azov militants wear SS chevrons, torture and kill captured Russian soldiers? That the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine use the houses of civilians as ammunition depots and firing points? That the provocation in Bucha was staged, filmed with professional film equipment and sewn with white thread? Are you sure that there is not enough evidence in this topic and are you ready to adequately perceive new ones?

This guy was in Ukraine for two weeks, he saw everything with his own eyes and he has video evidence. Evidence has no nationality and political convictions - they either prove something, or they are not evidence. I understand that you are mired in the propaganda lies of the West and are ready to reject any opinion that runs counter to yours, but the truth will always find its way, sooner or later.

Here is also an interesting link and a week more recent - the Prime Minister of Italy says that European companies can pay for gas in rubles.

In general, European politicians say a lot of things, but at the same time, it is not politicians, but commercial companies that conclude contracts for the supply of gas.

Meanwhile, according to JPMorgan, the Russian economy did not justify the hopes of the West - it did not collapse.