In terms of resources they are scarce, while in terms of population they are the largest ones.

I kind of get why the CCP acts in so dominant and cruel manner in HK then.

Well, it depends. Like I said most of our export is going to Asia now. The new LNG terminal in LA sent it's first shipment through Panama to Asia. We might maybe forget to send anything to China. Purely an oversight I am sure......

They really don't want to loose one of their biggest economic hubs when the state of the world is such that they might soon need it.

Currently Russia is supplying China with gas and i believe they already surpassed the EU as the biggest client there.

So it's a good business for the Russians but unfortunately for them their petroleum industry just can't keep up with the demand.

Like 10 years ago Putin actually wanted to make the growing Chinese dependent only on Russian energy

Or even close. China imports a lot of the, and this is a technical term they use in the military, "magic go-juice that makes ships tanks and planes work"

but then his geologists told him thee was just no way Russia can extract so much oil in the long term, so he had to give up.

It would have been a great deal for Russia, thou.

By the way do you know about the Estonia's tar sands?

http://www.tarsandsworld.com/estonia

Sure I mean that was where I was going. Again we do weird (often stupid) things but it means we can do weird (often stupid) things other places cannot. I mean Alberta also has tar-sands extraction but the lifting costs are higher than shale. Shale now I mean when we started it was 90 it's half that now.

If we didn't had so many green idiots in the EU parliament and such a strong pro-KGB lobby we could use Estonia's tar sands to power up Europe just like you are using Canada's to power the US.

This is actually why Russia wants a fight in the Baltic right now.

They are not as much concerned about their people or history there.

What they care about are those damned tar sands.

But or media still doesn't pay much attention to the issue.

Due to pressure form the green faggots this time around backed by the KGB I guess.

We are not using Alberta really. Keystone XL was an attempt to make transit costs of Alberta crude low enough to be useful here. But there were too many Green Canuks.

We're using Permian, Eagleford and Bakken mostly.

Those damn greenies are getting really annoying, aren't they?

They chose Greta as a symbol because they are all, at heart, mentally disabled children.

I wonder isn't Greta also part of the plan to boycott oil so "some people" can have their profits instead?

Sure I mean it's fairly obvious they are watermellon green.

I myself advocate for an EU level initiative to protect Estonia from Russia, thou I like the Russian people, have in mind that I myself am of a Slavic origin, and start using these damn tar sands but am falling on deaf ears here.

You can't imagine how cucked the Europeans are, especially, the western ones.

I always thought we were the dumber ones, cause communism, but now it looks like they are way more idiotic than us!

I mean that is more or less what I see as a future for a less-involved US in Europe. Whenever the Brits figure out Brexit we are there for them 5eyes and trade. But most of Europe is a wash. I think we can maybe engage with the intermarrium because you know what communism looks like and why it is a bad idea. It's not pretty. Germany is going to leave a mess when they an hero. Poland maybe can pick up much of the slack there.

I guess the problem is that Brussels are turning into the new international communist party by the day now.

It looks like they will be the champions of social justice in the years to come and they are already forming strong bond with the CCP.

They will probably take over Germany at some point I guess.

Germany is already much of a political corpse anyways.

I do not think they will be a problem for long.

The modern Deutsch are pretty much clueless as to what to do with their country.

The EU, as an entity, was a poorly planned substitute for NATO.

And Brussels really have no country, no nationality of their own.

They will just strive for international power just like the CPUSSR did back in the day.

And I mean I give them credit here. Maastricht was a year after the wall went down. It took us decades to realize we did not need to maintain the cold-war order. Although we were a bit distracted by jihadis.

If we don't manage to break the union I fear they will take over for good and use the muslims as their footsoldiers while trying to push a new tyranny form of islamic internationalism forward.

The Eu has neither the strength nor position to maintain itself. I'll go back to exports here. I talked about the US lets look at Germany. Almost **half** of German GDP is exports. You cannot do that unless you have a trade network interconnected to you. And even then you have to stimulate demand (something like a horrendous NPL stack for Deutschebank) in the rest of that network. But you cannot earn on loans that cannot be repaid.