the theory of oil ending oil is old,
the 'new' deposits in meditterenean are about to be drilled,
from Israel/Gaza to Croatia the deposits are consider tremendous,
I heard even about 400 years the needs of EU as today,
North sea deposits might be nothing infront that of Leviathan and south of Attaleia,
we may even see industrial map of Europe change and goind south, except if coal returns or more nuclear use to fullfill the demand,
the Ukraine case seems to be like the chess move of Syria,
remember Putin deny any invasion in Syrria, and protect Hassant,
that costs to USA reputation, guns, etc etc until the run out of control of IS.
so USA respond by pushing West Ukrainians to a fast revolt, next to Russia, to show who is in 'command'
but the revolt took days, and gave enough time to Russians to regatherer and plan the new policy,
so West lost the blietzkrieg tactic spending time, while with fast referendums and elections could easily be strategical winner, with small loses or (although little chances in Crimea) none.
Crimea is like the Pearl Harbor, the Annapolis, the Pensacolla the EARL NJ, to USA,
They - "Semites" (derives from the Bharatian "Sanskrit" word Manu Smriti (Smritic); "men of awarness, tradition, desire" (in Slavic (Man; Ukrainian word for a "face" & "smrti" as "Death"; "People of Death"...(followed the inverted Vedic laws of Manu Smriti, which was corrupted into the "semitic" (Abrahamic (Against Brahmanic); this includes earliest Yazidic tribes of the Kurus (Kurds; Kurus + Arabic (A-Rava; A-Ravean; Ravanas; Rephaim,...) cross breeds), who 'switched' to the cult of Patala (Nagaloka) and Asuras (this tradition remained in Islamic "Ashura" self-flogging... or Osirian (Osiris) cults from which came later Christianity, Judaism and Islam... (Mohamed was a 'spy' from Vatican, who was infiltrated into the society of Sabeans (Saveans; Shiveans; Shiva) & Meccans (who worshipped Allah long time before this deity became "Islamic" as we know it today)) have a plan for all Kurus tribes, including for- "Croatia (descendants of the Vedic Borean(Bharati) tribe of Kurus, from the battle of Kurukshetra (this is also the name of Russian city of Kursk (Kurusk) & Karpatian mountains(=KuruPata), Kurds (Kurus) & Crimeans (Kuruma)...
The next Kurukshetra war (Mega (Maha-bhaRata) will happen in Russia and Ukraine... around the Black sea; as it happened 7500 years ago - when the Kali (kalna (muddy water), "kill" (penetration; "through" (dirty, arrogant)- era (kala)) - KALI YUGA(Vek) started...
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