Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "" video.

  1. Would you really want to get close to a country like Russia with the games and aggression Russia is showing other nations? It wouldn't make much sense to get close to a country like that when they could use those countries for their own ends, in other words, the closer you get to a country like Russia in buying it's natural resources, the more they can take advantage of you, it would be crazy now with everything that's going on in Ukraine to want to get too close to Russia unless they want to be a target themselves. I can understand why China and India are doing what they are doing with buying cheap oil and gas from Russia, they are taking advantage of Russia's weakness in the world but even then, I highly doubt China or India will want it's percentage of oil and gas from Russia to be too high or they could become the next target, also there is the risk of tariffs on China and India from the west if they are not careful as I highly doubt the west is doing all this only for China and India to prop up the Russian economy. The moment Putin used natural resources as a political weapon, he did a lot of damage to Russia long term and even thought Russia might be profiting on it for now, good luck with that longer term as it's likely going to do more damage to Russia. The moral of the story, never try to screw over your customers, especially rich ones because they will look elseware and that's what Russia was did and are likely to pay a high price for that longer term. The irony is, for EU countries, this is a blessing, a bit of short term pain but now there is a lot of public pressure to get some real changes done and that is all that is needed to get the political will to do real change that it wouldn't surprise me if we advance in renewable energy over the next decade more than we have over many decades, in that sense, Putin is helping to kill off the fossil industry sooner rather than later, that's worth trillions to fossil producing nations, so Russia benefits short term but they are paying a much higher price long term. Still, keep doing what you are doing Russia, you're quickly losing friends whiles falling into the trap of what the west wants, we are already seeing more countries want to join the EU and NATO with others wanting closer relations to the west, it's becoming a disaster for Russia and it's only just started as sanctions usually take about 2 to 3 years to really bite, which by then, a lot of European countries will have reduced or outright banned Russian oil and gas.
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