The US will become the biggest Oil producer by 2023

No, I am talking about internal political strife. Are you a russian? Sometimes it feels you are not...Though even in Russian there are multiple kinds of people.

Some still believe that Russia has soviet capabilities, while we are truly at Nicolas II level now. Pre WW1 level.

Except they are not using principles of prisoners and play more or less fair play. Not some kind of bandits from the street.

You are talking as if there was only Yeltsin and Putin in Russia. Yeltsin should burn in hell, Gorbachev should be ready too though.
I would better return Stalin's time. Brezhnev was not too bad too but unlike the beginning of 20th century we are currently lacking really brilliant people

Putin failed with DNR and LNR. And Crimea. It could be much more better. Now he has no idea what to do with them. If you russian you can read a lot of sources about that.

I know. I was bored waiting for my son to finish his swimming lesson.

My point exactly why state all the points when they are so well known.

For gods sake you didn’t even mention half of them and it’s enough already.

And now you have the same old response that I was talking about earlier

Are you referring to Navalny?

The Saudis are taking absolutely no prisoners in Yemen.

Putin enjoys an approval rating of more than 80%.

Putin's game in Ukraine is a lot more complicated than that.....

Why is Russia an undesirable country?

And is it really comparable to Saudi Arabia?

The response that exists outside of your echo chamber?

Russia is a fascist shithole with a president who's prepared stage terrorist attacks to stay in power and maintain its oligarchy

At least Saudi have somewhat begun to acknowledge more liberal ideas, they are absolutely comparable.

No, it’s an undesirable country.

I’ve seen your I love Russia threads recently so I know how you feel already.

Putin has stated on numerous occasions that this sort of provocation is a mere reaction to NATO's push eastward and destabilisation of Russia's sphere, which includes the orchestrated coup in Kiev, for example, as well as the arming of neo-Nazis in the country.



Every major country conducts cyber attacks on its rivals.

The American agencies were caught spying on European leaders a few years ago.



The U.S. has meddled in countless elections in Russia.



A reaction to the Western coup in Kiev aimed at turning Ukraine into a NATO member state instead of a buffer between NATO and Russia.



Perhaps you are unaware of the recent increase in the U.S. defence budget - it was increased by $94B, which is more than Russia's entire budget for its armed forces. The U.S. budget now stands at more than $700B, while Russia's stands at $70B (bear in mind the budget fluctuates depending on what is needed and the price of oil, and therefore can drop, while the U.S. only increases).

Do you really expect a great power like Russia to neglect its armed forces when its rival outspends it by more than ten times?



It's unfortunate, but they know the rules of the game.



It's strange that you side with team that turns countries - particularly Muslim countries - upside down, and continues probing Putin, instead of ironing out the issues, which, obviously, leads to a reaction from Russia, and the shock surprise from the West that someone in the world won't bend over and take it.

I would invite you to listen to the speech Putin made in Munich in 2007.

I’m not talking to you, I have better things to do than have the same old conversation which is why I wanted to start the conversation in a different way.

I have no interest in your Russia defending itself narrative because no one has attacked them and no one is out to get them.

They are the aggressor and that’s clear to anyone who doesn’t have a bias like someone with the name Stalin.

Have fun

What evidence do you have to support your claim that Putin staged terrorist attacks in Russia?



Allowing women to drive is the metric these days?

What about public beheadings?

You weren't interested in having a discussion about Russia with me because I disagree with the 'prevailing opinion' that you subscribe to.

That's one narrow mind dying to be opened.



I never said anyone attacked Russia.

I said that NATO has continued to push eastward into Russia's sphere and onto its borders. Furthermore, it orchestrated a coup in Kiev in an attempt to change Ukraine's neutrality and turn it into an NATO member state, which is a red line for Russia.

Do you dispute this?



Elaborate on what Russia has done that makes it the aggressor and refute the claims I have already made in this thread.

Also, I won't engage in ad hominem attacks, even if there is plenty of subject matter as regards your face.



You too, snowflake.

It's more a respect than a love but never the less to compare them to Saudi Arabia is simply idiotic.

I love that. This idea that foreign interests can organise mass protest from the people. I'm with Paul - I was bored in the swimming pool. I'm not going to argue the toss for the sake of it, especially if you are using clips from Russian State sponsored TV companies.

At least we have a free press, which is more than can be said for Russia.

You too, snowflake.

The International Energy Agency believes that the increase in US shale production will ensure that the nation becomes the largest producer of oil by 2023.

There are variables that need to fall into line to achieve this - oil prices hovering around the $70-80 per barrel mark for one - but as OPEC, Russia & other producers opted to cut production to raise prices then the IEA sees US output being revised upwards rather than down.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iea-oil/iea-sees-u-s-oil-output-surge-stealing-opec-share-in-next-five-years-idUSKBN1GH0YF?il=0

http://fortune.com/2018/01/19/us-saudi-arabia-russia-largest-oil-producer-2018/

Personally, I'd say anything that reduces the West's dependency on Middle Eastern oil has to be a positive step.

I didn’t compare them I said they were undesirable countries

The impartial, state-sponsored BBC?

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Russia is the single biggest enemy of the West. Saudi Arabia has shown signs of liberalizing, moving away from oil, cutting off funding of wahhabism and general progress.Russia is a fascist dictatorship.