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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (106083)	5/16/2014 9:38:17 AM
From: dvdw©	2 Recommendations Recommended By Alcona ggersh Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219956

"Am wondering, surely team America realizes that starving Europe / Ukraine of Russian gas " stop right here. Last Baktun MQS are what they are. The conclusion drawn lacks standing when opposite indications about future time shapes emerge. WTI hit 101. today.......how nonsensical is that? Pure protucscan nonsense. Why.....? over the last many years leading up to the end of the baktun of 2012......WTI has been rigged to construe/ derive its identity with brent....this action has enabled misallocations of substantial capital to entities in service of protuscus. The logical foundations of the linkage are false. As USA prohibits its domestic oil from export, its linkage with brent and other non usa sources, reduces to opportunistic contrivance. Now subject to unwinding. the collapse of the derivative link between global and local prices will end this last baktun momentum play whose foundations were/are not defensible. When awareness about the status of local supply and demand begins asserting its influence, the hubris of the extrapolated constructs will be shown for what they are; just more attempt by protuscus to keep getting paid......

To: TobagoJack who wrote (106083)	5/16/2014 10:20:06 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219956

Russia is likely to want China to help protect a pipeline to China. <Am guessing that Ukraine troops would love to go toe to toe now against China soldiers basing out of Crimea and all around Ukraine. Do you not agree?> Americans/NATO are perhaps a bit light on historical understanding, or perhaps sensitive appreciation, or possibly faulty reality creation. So far the 21st century adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan were not rewarding for Team America. Tony Blair doesn't come out of it smelling of roses. Perhaps they'll do better in a Dr Strangelove confrontation with Russia. Unlikely. My cheese principle* says the Crimean cheese is too close to the Russian ant nest to be annexed by Team America, even with some reluctant "help" from the cheese-eating surrender monkeys and the Germans who are still smarting from the carnage of WWII and WWI. Angela Merkel is unlikely to want to get too worked up about Ukraine, in whole or part. Mqurice * In similar vein, the islands of the South China Sea are quite close to China, so continuous logistics to maintain supply lines from distant shores are expensive. But doable as in Falkland Islands. Crimea is far less separate from Russia and has large military needs too, being a pleasant warm water port in a storm. It's not clear that the brokest nation in history can fund for many years distant adventures of too grand a scale. The early decades of the 21st century could turn out to be more interesting than those of the 20th, the way they are going.