Seems like more outlets are picking the story up. It may well have legs.

It is just a matter of time. Now that SA is boning all of the other oil producers, things that are done in Norwegian kroner are suddenly cheap-ish again. For that matter, there is no reason not to land a LPG pipeline in Gdansk..Also, I am referring to a Baltic Sea route.

Some accounts had the Iraq War II costing $2 000 000 000 a day. If Russia did that they would be out of money in less than six months (and no one would loan them more). That is the difference between the first and third world for you...

So you think that there is a story to be found in how these guys get their used cars? Keep digging buddy, there has to be a pony somewhere in that mound of horse shit.

Which they only accomplished with US support. If it would not have been for the American resupply the Germans would have rolled right over Russia.
They had no choice in the matter, either. It was fight or die. It is not like the Russians did anything to save anyone else’s butt.

What the hell happened to suicide doors?! That was pretty much the only cool thing about Lincoln ever.

Those guys must frickin’ hate barley or whatever it is growing in that field...

Russia never looks like the good guy. Thug? Yep. Good guy? Exactly when in history could anyone make that case?

That is reaching at the Plastic Man level, comrade.

From where am sitting, I think the play in Europe would be to lay serious pipe from Norway to Germany via Denmark and supply gas via that route. Give the Russians a bit of competition so that they have to actually be reasonable and not thoroughly dickish about their position in the energy market. I think that N.Europe…

If you stand far enough back and squint a bit, it certainly does look like the old “rope a dope.”

That is the smile of a man who is bluffing.

Please excuse the dumb question but, are we looking at the tail-end of this thing?