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2022-03-09 Economy

Putin snickers: Guess who owns a big chunk of Venezuela's oil?

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Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-09 10:53|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Good lord. Add it to the Daily Catch of foreign policy humiliations for this administration. Today's haul:

Saudi, Emirati Leaders Decline Calls With Biden During Ukraine Crisis

Swedish PM: NATO application would ‘destabilise’ Northern Europe

China blames NATO for pushing Russia-Ukraine tension to 'breaking point'

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-09 12:57|| 2022-03-09 12:57|| Front Page Top

#2 What I enjoy so much about this is Putin did what Trump attempted to do and drain the swamp. Ukraine was a cash cow for so long. 10 million to DNC,Biden's millions,Kerry with his hand out, Soros, Clinton's are in there somewhere I am certain. So now the fun begins. Choke hold in place. Who will squeal first.

Posted by Dale 2022-03-09 13:14|| 2022-03-09 13:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, well, guess who is going to buy up a bunch of LyondellBasell, so there.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-09 13:20|| 2022-03-09 13:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Dale, a lot of that money you attribute to Ukraine actually came from Putin. Biden is taking a dive.

I hate no matter how much I try to explain this everyone resets the next day and it's Day Zero again.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-09 14:00|| 2022-03-09 14:00|| Front Page Top

#5 LyondellBasell

Len Blavatnik again??

Posted by Porthos 2022-03-09 14:20|| 2022-03-09 14:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Snowy, it was a pleasant thought, a hopeful thought and maybe a delusional thought. I'll go to my room now.

Posted by Dale 2022-03-09 15:10|| 2022-03-09 15:10|| Front Page Top

#7 How long before someone leaks the real story of Joe and Hunter's financial deals with Ukraine? For ye of short of memory Hunter Biden was a no show member of the board of a Ukrainian energy company when his dad was VP.

Posted by jpal 2022-03-09 16:02|| 2022-03-09 16:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Figure that's what a lot of the hooplah around Trump's Talk with Ukraine was about; not spilling the beans.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-09 16:14|| 2022-03-09 16:14|| Front Page Top

#9 For ye of short of memory Hunter Biden was a no show member of the board of a Ukrainian energy company when his dad was VP.

More specifically, he was on the board of Burisma. Burisma was founded by Mikhail Zelezny, who was also the environmental minister and the energy minister of Ukraine for Yanukovitch, who is currently hiding in Russia. (Zelezny is currently at the next level of How Not To Be Seen, because noone knows what country he's hiding in). Anyway, Zelezny basically transferred all drilling permits in Ukraine to his company and kept anyone else from drilling for natural gas an oil. Burisma makes most of its money in places like Khazakstan, doing services for the main productive oil companies, which are owned by Russia.

Burisma could basically make money working for Russia while sitting on its Ukranian permits and not do anything while making sure noone else could do anything with them that might make Ukraine slightly less dependent on Russia.

After the Ukraine got rid of Yanukovitch, they wanted to investigate the situation, but ran afoul of this guy:

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-09 19:16|| 2022-03-09 19:16|| Front Page Top