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Weaning Europe off Russian energy supply used to be seen as a strategic goal for US, and Ukraine could have done just that with what was in the occupied areas.
by krige 2y ago
Weaning Europe off Russian energy supply used to be seen as a strategic goal for US, and Ukraine could have done just that with what was in the occupied areas.
- ChocolateGod 2y ago> Ukraine could have done just that with what was in the occupied areas Didn't Ukraine switch to Europe as it's energy supply? Imho the Russian invasion pushing Europe to secure its energy supply has been a positive impact from the war.
- krige 2y agoEastern bits of Ukraine have very large untapped stores of hydrocarbons. It is unknown what exactly were/are the goals for the ongoing invasion (assuming there are any plausible ones in the first place) but one of the more reasonable guesses is denying Ukraine access to those stores in order to maintain russian supremacy in providing cheap gas and oil to Germany etc. both as a source of revenue and a political tool.