Putin will shut out US oil companies.
Putin will shut out US oil companies.
This is just misinterpretation. There's no US oil consultants left to do the job since the Iraq contracts were restricted to US-only applications from them and nobody else. They all have the keys to Fort Knox indefinitely. Why would these cash-rich cowboys want to take on a chilly Siberian gas field as well? The Russians are resigned to making do with experienced fellow-European ice-dwellers that have forty years' gas field expertise as second-best alternatives.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When you design tactics to maximise suffering on civilian populations and your only constraint is operational rather than moral, you've told the world who you are.