Oddbean new post about login | logout "as many Ukrainians among these Russians" 😂 This isn't some complex moral quandary. Russia is trying to invade Ukraine to take their land and steal their resources. Russians are fighting this war for money: the Russian military is promising huge (for Russia) salaries to soldiers. If it was successful, it would have been a very profitable war because Ukraine has trillions or dollars worth of resources to steal; Russia has already stolen something like a trillion dollars worth of land and resources already.
Ukraine has no resources worth trillions of dollars; they only have billions in debt and cheap labor for the EU. And even if those "trillions of dollars" worth of resources did exist, the U.S. would simply take them for free, just as they've done in the Middle East.
😂😂😂 Just in the occupied areas, there's about $12 trillion worth of resources, including coal, iron ore, etc. https://www.dw.com/en/russia-ukraine-war-natural-resources-grain/a-66639269 And Ukraine has more top quality topsoil than any other country in the world. There's a reason why they're (still) one of the world's top food exporterers. As for the US, they haven't taken resources for free.
The valuation of coal and gas in Ukraine changes every time depending on who is conducting the assessment. In any case, coal is not something that can be expensive in the modern green agenda, and the development of other resources in Ukraine did not occur because modern Ukraine did nothing but steal Russian gas from pipelines and sell children for prostitution and organ transplantation to Europe. Regarding this amusing statement, considering that even under the impoverished conditions of Ukraine, the Biden family thrived there. Hunter Biden especially enjoyed himself with Ukrainian escorts.
there probably is more than one reason to do what russia is doing. i do tend to believe their claim to make ukraine abandon their nato aspirations, and there probably are more reasons, like, for example, the persistant corruption scheme with russian gas that has made ukrainian oligatchs millions. funny how the start of the war coincided with completion deadline for northstream pipelines
There are many reasons, ranging from purely historical ones, such as Kiev being literally the cradle of the Russian world, to economic and military factors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsjKZstp-XU&t=81