Hello World,
This was going to be an open letter to Ukraine, but as I thought about it, it applies to everybody, but it is particularly apparent in Ukraine.
Why is Putin doing what he's doing? Because of oil and gas. Oil and gas is what lines his pockets, and the pockets of his powerful friends.
We saw what a 100 million dollars of private funds were able to do in the hands of Osama bin Laden. Now, imagine what a few hundred billion will do in the hands of Putin and his cadre.
That is right, I equated the two. But I'm also going to throw Exxon in there as well, and BP and whatever other oil company you want to name.
It is not about guns, it is not about violence. Go ahead, have a gun. They will have a bigger one, or a faster one, or both.
It is about control, about control and greed.
It should be clear, they don't care who or what they kill, or who or what dies. Be it polar bears in the arctic, moose and elk in the marshes, rural dwellers on the plains, city dwellers in downtown Odessa.
We have put the world's money in the hands of the oily elite, and they will do what ever they please in order to expand their empire.
If they kill a couple of dozen Texans of Norwegians, utterly negligible.
If they kill a million Ukrainians, there are still many millions left, and many more millions to sell oil to in Europe.
If they kill 50 million Americans and/or 50 million Russians, there are still billions left in the world to sell oil to in the world.
Really, the notion of anti-trust, anti-monopoly is a free market notion, an American notion. It is a real pain for would be monopolists, and if it all just went away, so much the better. Really, the population of a totalitarian country is a pain in the butt. If they could be effectively culled, so much the better.
So, if they lose a third of their customer base to a giant war, not a problem. The price goes up. It has been proven on a dozen different levels that they really just don't care.
Understand that the aftermath of Chernobyl has been used as a lab experiment. Yes, it was an accident, yes there was a nuclear wasteland declared, but studies have been ongoing there, studies that do endanger the scientists working on the studies who themselves are likely studied. Why? To determine what happens when something like this happens. What they found: in general the natural habitat survived, and even thrived.
This demonstrates that the majority of the cities in a country-- America's cities, or Russia's, or China's, or Argentina's, or whoever's-- could be destroyed by remote control and the land, the majority of it, the primary asset, would recover after a few decades.
Because they are not Americans. They are not Russians. They are whatever they think they are, because we've given them that power, and they don't think they are us.
They have a dream, and here it is. Go ahead, take a look\
In the meantime, there will be a world full of people starving, begging for oil and gas.
So what should we do about this, what can we do about this?
Well, you can put on a mask and fight in the streets against other masked people who are being paid by the oily elite, or fight against soldiers paid by your tax dollars, but protecting the interests of the oily elite.
It doesn't not matter if your country is having a "spring", summer, fall or winter.
"But we have new technology, all the time! There will be new energy sources, cheap, or even free! And clean!"
Well, those who "care not who makes the laws" control the money, and therefore the technological effort. So I'm not convinced.
"But they are making fuel from sea water!" No they are not, they are making fuel from electricity and sea water. How are they making the electricity? Please stop being so dumb.
And you're like "Oh, come on lad. Buck up! Play the game! You've only got a few decades! Sit back, relax. Have a beer."
But I am just not in the mood.
What do we do? I don't know. I guess we pray, and we die.
"Well, as long as it's you, and not me!"
And that, I believe, sums up the situation.
Love,
MICHAEL
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