At current production levels, even in Russia, oil reserves will last for 59 years, gas reserves for 103 years, said the head of the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources, Kozlov.
https://www.rbc.ru/business/11/05/2021/609971fe9a7947e065f63cd4

At the same time, there are few new explored deposits of them, but even those turn out to be quite small, sometimes for a few days of production. Therefore, the transition to alternative energy sources is the call of the time and does not depend on whether we want it or not.

After Iran for the first time openly and massively attacked Israeli territory on the night of April 14, it was foolish to expect that the conflict would not continue and Israel would not strike back.
This night, the Israeli army launched a drone strike on Iran. Iran's air defense systems were activated after three explosions were heard near a large military air base near the city of Isfahan. According to the Iranian FARS agency, fighter jets are there. There were also explosions in the sky over Tabriz. A spokesman for Iran's National Cyberspace Center said air defenses intercepted three drones and there were no reports of a missile attack. However, Iran did not name the source of the strike.

Your statement that the entire NATO coalition will not be able to resist Iran, either economically or in terms of firepower, sounds like a joke. Iran's armed forces are the eighth largest in the world, and Iran's defense budget in 2018 was only $13 billion, making the country the 18th largest military spender in the world. For comparison: the US defense budget alone is more than $700 billion. Iran has a ballistic missile program, but no long-range missiles capable of hitting the United States.

Iran has 509 aircraft and lags far behind - both in quantity and quality of air force - even from regional adversaries such as Saudi Arabia and Israel. These countries have 848 and 595 of the latest aircraft, respectively. The basis of the Iranian Air Force is the American F-4, F-5 and F-14 fighters created in the 1970s.

Tehran's fleet consists of six frigates, three corvettes, 34 submarines and 88 patrol ships. The submarine arsenal includes Soviet/Russian Kilo-class submarines.

Iran has about 1,634 tanks in service, but these are mostly old vehicles and completely outdated models.
https://www.svoboda.org/a/30371428.html

Even if Iran unites with the rest of the axis of evil - Russia, China and North Korea, they are unlikely to withstand the military might of NATO countries.

If tomorrow does not come, then gas in this case is no longer needed, just like gold, bitcoin, or other material goods and values. But seriously, in the long term Russia loses in this situation in any case. The main thing is that the EU countries have already taken a course towards stopping the supply of Russian gas and oil. Moreover, not only Russian fossil fuels. The European Union will move relatively quickly to alternative energy sources. It is clear that this will not happen in one day or even a year. But their consumption volumes will decrease constantly until gas and oil as energy sources completely disappear from their consumption structure. It no longer matters that in certain periods and in certain countries this will happen in a zigzag manner. The essence does not change from this.

At the same time, oil and gas reserves in Russia are being depleted. In some fields, oil already contains 90 percent water. And there have been no other explored large sources for a long time. So in Russia, like the war in Ukraine, everything is going according to plan.

If there is hyperinflation in a country, then no change in currency, be it fiat or cryptocurrency, will help it. High inflation indicates a sick economy, not a sick financial system. Therefore, first of all, it is necessary to develop the economy: to encourage the development of industry, agriculture, tourism, and other economic projects based on the location of the country and its level of development. We need to create jobs and provide decent work for people. Then the financial system will improve with any currency.
As for a decentralized cryptocurrency, the best financial model would be for it to circulate alongside fiat currency, without replacing it.

There is no point in talking about the betrayal of Ukraine by the United States. There is the usual political struggle for the presidency between Trump and Biden. It was beneficial for Trump to sabotage arms supplies to Ukraine for some time in order to undermine the authority and trust in the current president during the election campaign. But Trump realized that delaying aid to Ukraine for too long could lead to him being accused of betraying US national interests, and after consultations between the Speaker of the House of Representatives Johnson and Trump, the situation moved from a dead point. Johnson has already announced that on Saturday, April 20, an aid package to Ukraine worth approximately $60 billion will be put to a vote and Biden has already announced that he will sign it.

Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) approved spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for Bitcoin and Ethereum on April 15, approving applications from three major players: China Asset Management, Bosera Capital and HashKey Capital Limited. Details of the listing of these ETFs will be finalized with Hong Kong's HKEX and the products are expected to be launched by the end of this month. While the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not approved similar funds for Ethereum, Hong Kong has taken a step forward by approving both products simultaneously. Therefore, the chances of spot exchange-traded funds being approved on Ethereum have increased significantly.
If this happens in the US, then according to forecasts, the price of Ethereum could well rise to $12,000.

You forget that Russia now needs any significant armed conflict to divert attention from the war in Ukraine and, most importantly, to divert resources that were sent as assistance to this country. To achieve this, Russia also activated corrupt Western politicians and partially achieved its goal. For six months now, Ukraine has received virtually no assistance from the United States. But if a war breaks out, in which the United States and European countries are drawn in, then the Kremlin expects that they will quickly seize Ukraine. Iran is Russia's closest military ally and the attack on Israel took place taking into account Russia's military experience in Ukraine.

The state of affairs in the financial sector will depend on how much this next possible war grows. If this happens, the cryptocurrency will also suffer greatly.

Yes, it is worth recognizing that in Ukraine there is now a problem with weapons to protect against Russian missiles. When a few days ago Russia launched 11 cruise missiles at one of the largest thermal power plants in Ukraine, Trypillya, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down seven of them. The remaining missiles hit the TEC, because in this direction the air defense had no ammunition left to shoot down these missiles. Putin’s horde takes advantage of this opportunity and, despite colossal losses, storms the Ukrainian Armed Forces along the entire front.

Ukraine does not threaten the United States that it will attack Russian oil refineries. The political leadership of Ukraine stated in response to requests from the United States not to do this that this is one of the most effective ways to stop the military invasion of the Russian army, and therefore these factories will continue to burn in Russia. After all, Ukraine does this with its own drones, but their flying power is much inferior to the power of Russian missiles.

Yes, the US, UK, France and other countries directly helped repel Iran's most massive missile and drone attack on Israel. It was revealed that 99 percent of air targets launched by Iran were shot down. Ukrainians are outraged that they do not receive such assistance from their partners. Let's see how events will develop further.

Russia has been launching missile and drone strikes across Ukraine for three years. Russian propagandists claim that they are being carried out on military targets. But it is mainly residential buildings, educational institutions, hospitals and other civil infrastructure that are being destroyed. Or maybe I’ll remind you how last winter Russia deliberately attacked Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in order to “freeze” the population and break the will to resist? Are these not terrorist attacks?
Ukraine only recently began striking military targets in Russia and oil refineries when it was able to establish its own production of drones. And even then, their power cannot be compared with the missiles that Russia constantly launches at Ukraine.

 Do you think that a real war is when missiles fly only in one direction, towards Ukraine?
And if for every hundred missiles one response arrives, is that already terrorism? More than 2,000 Russian missiles and more than 9,200 drones have been shot down over Ukrainian territory alone. How often do explosions occur in Russian cities? I think it will be fair if the Ukrainian Armed Forces try to make parity in this matter. Otherwise, Russians do not feel at all that their country has been fighting against a neighboring state for three years.

Let's then return to the events of World War II, when the USSR was attacked by Germany. Can the actions of the USSR be considered terrorism when they attacked German territory and reached Berlin, destroying populated areas on German territory and killing many German civilians?

Do you blame the Ukrainians for the tragedy at Crocus City Hall? On what basis? Because you want to?

You are a little mistaken. Technologies appear relatively quickly as soon as there is a demand for them. The main thing is that humanity has already reached the level of technical development when it can develop technologies for the extraction of minerals on other space objects. Of course, we are not talking about the next decades, although this is quite possible. Look how technology has advanced over the past half century.

Regarding the legal basis for the extraction of natural resources in space, the current methodology of private law in civil legal relations, the basis of which has existed since the so-called “Roman law,” can well be applied to it. Roman private law, which regulates all civil transactions, is more than two thousand years old, but to this day this law has not changed significantly at all.

The uniqueness of today's Russia lies in the fact that there are written laws for citizens, but unwritten ones for the elite and Putin's entourage. Colossal amounts of money are now being spent on the war in Ukraine, and Putin, in order to remain in power, only has to increase spending on it. Therefore, they are forced to put pressure on businesses and ordinary citizens, and to prevent capital from leaving the country, to prohibit the full use of cryptocurrency.

At the same time, with the approval of Putin, cryptocurrency is clearly used there, including to circumvent sanctions and carry out various financial transactions, where this is, of course, possible. This forum has already discussed Russia's crypto-currency assistance to Hamas before their attack on Israel in October last year. Undoubtedly, there are many such examples.

I have repeatedly heard that scammers often hack the emeil password, and through it they view backup data and all saved passwords on the device. Therefore, first of all, it is necessary to check whether emeil has been hacked in order to understand how scammers were able to penetrate Trustwallet data. The entrance to this wallet is also protected by a six-digit code. I think that we should not immediately blame the poor security of the Trustwallet wallet. We cannot store in the memory of the device on which we work the passwords and private keys of our cryptocurrency that are significant to us.

Ukraine  did not start a war with Russia. It is Russia that attacked Ukraine and wants to destroy it as a state and kill more Ukrainians. Therefore, when defending themselves, Ukrainians primarily pursue their own interests, and not the interests of the United States or any other state. But it is in the interests of the United States and other democratic states to provide assistance to Ukraine and prevent Russia and other authoritarian states from acting according to the rule of might, neglecting the previously established rules of peaceful coexistence between states.

The topic periodically comes up that members of the US Congress or other US politicians express the idea of “fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian” and I have previously refuted this lie. So I’ll repeat it again. No Western official has ever said anything like this. The first time the phrase “wars to the last Ukrainian” was used was in a column by former American politician Ron Paul, published on his own website on March 14, 2022. But Paul did not hold any public office for almost 10 years. A similar statement was made in an article for the information portal The Gray Zone by retired American diplomat Chas Freeman, who is not a US official and expressed only his personal opinion.

The only current official who spoke about the West’s readiness to fight to the last Ukrainian was Putin. “Ukraine’s mobilization reserve is not unlimited. It seems that Western countries are ready to fight to the last Ukrainian,” Putin once said.
https://news.obozrevatel.com/russia/do-poslednego-ukraintsa-putin-sdelal-tsinichnoe-zayavlenie-o-vojne-obviniv-vo-vsem-zapad.htm

Therefore, when talking about current politicians, you can directly point out that only Putin said such things. It is very profitable for the Kremlin and other Russian propagandists to inflate the topic of war to the last Ukrainian. After all, this seems to indicate the futility of Ukrainian resistance, and this is what they are trying to achieve. After all, in the third year of the war, Russia is reaching a dead end, unable to end it by military means.

The craziest Republican candidate for the presidency of the United States is still in the race and that is Trump. From what he says in his election speeches, we can conclude that he completely wants to upset the balance of power in the world that has existed for a very long time, and not in favor of the United States. His attempt to quarrel or even destroy NATO and at the same time playing along with Putin in his desire to seize neighboring states is pure madness.

But it seems that the US population is gradually realizing this. Recent opinion polls show that Biden and Trump are almost equal in the level of support in the elections. Therefore, before the elections in November, Trump may no longer be the favorite in this race.

I'll start with this part of your questions. The difference in the high civilian casualties in Palestine compared to those in Ukraine is explained primarily by the density of the living population. In Palestine it is 734 people per square kilometer, and in Ukraine there are only 80 people per square kilometer, and even that was before the Russian attack. That is, under the same conditions of shelling in Palestine, approximately ten times more civilians die due to the high population density. In addition, I saw how a multi-story building completely collapses from each missile strike on Palestinian territory. At the same time, of course, the civilian mortality rate there is very high. In Ukraine, only the entrance collapses from approximately the same impact. In my opinion, thick brick or panel/concrete houses in Ukraine are much stronger and this is explained primarily by the different climate.

Oil and its refined products constitute the main source of income for Russia and in monetary terms it is approximately 49 percent of total profits. That is, Russia receives a significant part of its profit from oil and its refined products, which are then spent on the war to seize the territory of Ukraine. In addition, gasoline and diesel are the lifeblood of military equipment. Without this fuel, Russian military equipment will be a pile of scrap metal and will not be able to ensure aggressive actions. The Ukrainian Armed Forces have long had a desire to attack Russian oil refineries, but did not have the appropriate capabilities; they appeared relatively recently, when Ukraine increased the production of its own drones. Oil and diesel are also used for civilian purposes, but the war in Ukraine is largely financed and supported by Russia through oil and its refined products.

The role of power plants in powering war cannot be compared with this role. It can be assumed that some electricity capacity is used in Ukraine for military purposes, however, in general, the generated electricity is spent on civilian consumption. But for the third year now, Russia has been striking not only at energy facilities, but also indiscriminately at housing stock, schools, and hospitals in order to simply kill more civilians and thereby intimidate them and force the Ukrainian government to stop resistance. But the terrorist country Russia will not succeed.

Putin's Russia has no escape route. Putin is well aware that if his troops leave Ukraine, it will not only be the end of his more than two decades of rule, it will most likely end with his death. In Russia such mistakes are not forgiven. Unable to turn the war in his favor on the battlefield, Putin is relying on terrorism and intimidation of the Ukrainian population.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, at an extraordinary meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council on March 28, said that 97 percent of Russian strikes against targets on Ukrainian territory were against civilian infrastructure, and their total yield since the beginning of 2024 exceeded nine kilotons. Already this year, Russia has practically destroyed all large thermal power plants in Ukraine.

At the same time, Russia is looking for all possible ways to reduce the assistance provided to Ukraine by the international community. Therefore, not a single source of military tension can now exist without Russia, including the Hamas attack on Israel in October last year. Politicians bought by Russia are working all over the world like never before. And we must admit that Putin partially achieved his goal. Since October, there has been virtually no US military assistance to Ukraine. But anyway, the terrorist Putin regime will come to an end very soon.

It is interesting to periodically read old topics about the possible price of Bitcoin from the perspective of 2015. Billy Hlapinnio then doubted that the price of Bitcoin would even reach one thousand dollars. This is probably why he has not been a participant in this forum since May 2015. And it turned out that it was in vain. Everyone who believed in the power of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general has now made a good fortune.

Humanity now needs to think not only about resources for our planet from other space objects, but also about the reserve existence of people on other planets in the event of a global catastrophe on Earth so that people can simply survive. We see that the probability of death of humanity at the hands of people themselves is even much higher than the probability of death from natural and space disasters. Man is such an unreasonable creature that he constantly fights with each other and periodically destroys his civilization, and this also does not exclude the death of the planet itself or the impossibility of living on it for centuries and even millennia in the event of a nuclear war.

Elon Musk wants to move a million people to Mars and establish a human colony there for precisely this purpose. But this is only the first stage. The next thing should be the settlement of people outside the solar system, because our solar system with the Sun itself in the center is also not eternal. But these are already problems for hundreds and thousands of subsequent generations of people.

In my opinion, you are calling for widespread looting, chaos, violent redistribution of property and spheres of influence, and other revolutionary actions in order to seize power. I just can’t understand why Great Britain has bothered you so much. Yes, a bad example is contagious. What do the gangster and terrorist actions of Putin’s Russia mean when the civilized world was unable to stop the Kremlin’s elderly dwarf, who became insolent in his permissiveness? Others look at him and think: he can do everything, but I can’t? The possibilities are different, but the essence is the same - to snatch what’s bad. I don't recommend it. This all ends badly.

In a few months, the situation at the front should change for the better for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Republicans in the US House of Representatives cannot forever delay a vote on providing the necessary amount of military assistance to Ukraine. At the same time, European countries are maximizing the utilization of their defense enterprises to provide their products to Ukraine. The capacity of defense plants in Ukraine itself is also increasing. At the same time, Russia has already transferred its economy to the needs of this big war and not only will it not be able to increase its capacity, but it will also not be able to hold out for long at the current pace of weapons production due to the imposed sanctions, which only continue to intensify.

On the other hand, on April 7, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it had completed the active invasion phase of the war and had withdrawn the entire 98th Division from the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, leaving only one Israeli army brigade there to provide security. corridor connecting southern Israel with the coast of the Gaza Strip. This corridor allows the IDF to carry out raids in northern and central Gaza, prevents Palestinians from returning to the northern part of the Strip, and allows humanitarian organizations to deliver aid directly to northern Gaza.
Thus, US assistance to Israel may be significantly reduced as it is unnecessary.

Therefore, the Kremlin is thinking about where else it is possible to kindle the flames of war - in Central Asia, the Baltic countries or somewhere else in order to divert the assistance provided to Ukraine.