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Too Big To Sanction?

Post by Riddick » 03-08-2022 06:53 PM

The Wall Street Journal explains:
  • From its base at a former Arctic gulag, Russia’s MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC digs up a large portion of two metals that are essential to greener transport and computer chips.

    So far the U.S. and its allies haven’t sanctioned the company, or its oligarch chief executive, underscoring the dilemma some analysts say governments face in seeking to punish Russia without hurting their own access to key commodities.
What are those “key commodities”? Nickel and palladium, primarily.
  • Nornickel, as the company is known, also supplies energy transition metals such as cobalt and copper.
“Energy transition metals” means metals that are vital for the alleged transition to wind and solar energy that our government is trying to force on us. This also has to do with electric vehicles, sacred cows of the 21st century:
  • Nornickel’s production is important, analysts say, because demand for nickel is forecast to grow strongly amid the growing popularity of electric vehicles. Nickel had the biggest supply deficit of any base metal last year relative to market size, at about 6%, according to analysts at BMO.
So Russian metals exports won’t be blocked or subject to sanctions, because the metals are wanted for pet projects of Western governments–wind and solar energy, and electric vehicles. Which, collectively, represent a downgrade from energy produced from fossil fuels and vehicles designed to run on such fuels.

But put that to one side. Assuming we need more nickel, palladium, copper and cobalt, do those minerals have to come from Russia? Actually, no. Minnesota is home to some of the world’s largest deposits of all four of those minerals. But not a pound has been mined. Why? Because hysterical “environmentalists” won’t let it happen.

Which results in the ultimate absurdity: in the name of the environment, we enrich Vladimir Putin and his cronies while impoverishing Americans, and providing no environmental benefit whatsoever. It’s all in a day’s work for the Biden administration.

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Re: Too Big To Sanction?

Post by Doka » 03-08-2022 08:02 PM

All bets are off. All sides playing against Russia, sounds great ,.........it just seems that the push for "Nuclear War" from all sides is a go? Going to kill us all , one way or another. The "War of the Bullies" and we all lose . Get your popcorn ready.
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Intentionally Or Not, Environmentalists Are In Collusion With Putin

Post by Riddick » 03-08-2022 08:13 PM

Were it not for the green movement, Putin would not have been confident that he could get away with invading Ukraine. During Trump's presidency, and due to his policies, the United States became independent of foreign oil for the first time.

Within months of assuming power, the Democratic Party, an extension of the environmentalist movement, forced America to revert to dependence on foreign oil, including Russian oil.

Beholden to the environmentalists, candidate Joe Biden made promise after promise to curtail oil and gas production: no new fracking on government land, no drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, and shutting down the Keystone pipeline.

Putin got the message.

So, thanks to environmentalists, not only is America once again dependent on foreign oil, Germany is dependent on Russian oil. Angela Merkel, another in a long line of foolish Germans, even shut down Germany's nuclear reactors -- which the greens in Germany applauded.

They applauded it -- despite the fact that nuclear energy is the only viable non-carbon energy that can sustain a country -- because the environmentalist movement is not nearly as interested in the environment as it is in restructuring society.

The extremely high price of energy -- a direct result of the environmentalist policies of the Democratic Party and the liberal and Left parties in Europe -- is one of the two primary reasons for the ever-increasing rate of inflation. (The other reason is the result of another Democrat policy: the printing of trillions of dollars.)

Serious inflation leads to very bad things. The Nazis did not come to power because of their antisemitism or even because of the Versailles Treaty as much as they did because of the terrible inflation under the Weimar Republic.

And any day now, the Biden administration will announce an agreement with Iran that will enable Iran to take in billions of dollars for its oil. Yet another victory for Biden, the Democrats and the environmentalists. This agreement, brokered -- incredibly -- by Russian diplomats, will enable Iran to sponsor worldwide terror, resuscitate Iran's economy and continue its quest for nuclear bombs.

Concern for the environment is a good thing, but the environmentalist movement is not. The environmentalist movement is as interested in protecting the environment as the communist movement was in protecting workers or the defund-the-police movement is in protecting blacks.

Environmentalists use the environment to create a social revolution just as communists used workers to create a social revolution. Its activists are fanatics. Its consequences are nihilism.

For the first time since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the world faces the possibility of a nuclear war. It should now be obvious that the "Greens," the environmentalist movement -- not global warming -- poses an existential threat to humanity.

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