>>71552
something weird with ulaanbaatar too
good sign.
means they are partially burning assets earlier than intended
and in a different way than they intended
THIS
Imagine if this whole operation had instead depended on a D anons.
It happened to be an R.
A different route could have been taken to get here.
Have compassion.
We can have some fun goading "the other team"
(which we all know doesn't exist by now)
Or we can jam a stake in these vampire fucks.
By avoiding (((THEIR))) tactics.
THEY divide
WE unite
Where we go one, we go all.
I saw some anons say not to follow.
Just # meme away
Think advice not to follow anyone is extreme measure
Less nuclear is not following certain people
Perhaps shadowbanning is spread like an infection
really can't be overstated
will you chase the cheap laugh?
seek comfort in "I told you so's"?
look down from your perch
while you meme with hate in your heart?
Or will you comfort and guide?
shrug off the need to be snide?
Avoid that siren song of DIVIDE?
Escape the allure of the ever-present SLIDE?
Is it cheap kicks you desire?
Or the ever-growing fire?
The fire of revolution,
The fire of unity.
MAGA anons.
vegas is a good starter-pill anon!
many normies wonder why it disappeared from the news cycle so quickly
when similar events were milked dry (and still are!)
quadddds!
Non-religious but spiritual-anon here.
Anon will pray for first time in decades.
Sleeping and eating is important anons!!
NuRome wasn't conquered in a day.
mmmm strong and tasty logic here
>^
Also looking for the
6 companies own the media graphic
Also for the anons talking about Astana earlier:
When you think of Kazakhstan, what do you think of? Other than Borat, I mean.
Imagine what you think the capital of Kazakhstan looks like, if you were to walk around the streets. Maybe you imagine it would be like the capital of Afghanistan, or Ulaanbaatar in nearby Mongolia? Or perhaps maybe a step up nicer than that, like an Eastern European country?
What if I told you it looks super modern and hyper-developed? Would you find that to be surprising?
See it for yourself. Watch a minute or two of this peaceful motorbike ride through the heart of the capital, which is named Astana:
https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wvYmjqOyCo&t=4m49s
I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor. The longer you watch, the more outstanding it gets. Notice how modern the buildings are, and how well everyone is dressed. Notice how nice and modern the cars are as well.
What's going on here? Why is everything so nice? I thought Kazakhstan was a craphole?
Nope.
See, an interesting thing happened. They were part of the USSR, which collapsed and as a result gave them independence in 1991. They were poor at this time.
As their independence approaches, every oil company in the world is lining up to get a piece. The USSR had complete control over Kazakhstan's oil reserves, but now with independence the oilfields are suddenly open to entities like Exxon and Chevron.
Kazakhstan has the 12th largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world, right after Nigeria. So you can imagine how badly they want to get in on this action they had been locked out of by the USSR.
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves
In fact they wanted it so badly that Exxon Mobil's executives were charged by a federal court for bribing Kazakhstani officials for that purpose:
https: //www.forbes.com/2003/04/23/cz_df_0423xom.html
Read these unbelievable excerpts from that article:
In May 1995, Mobil pushed its way into the huge Tengiz field operated by ChevronTexaco by paying Kazakhstan $1.05 billion for a 25% interest. According to the indictment, Mobil agreed to pay Giffen a 5% fee that was understood to be included in the purchase price.
After further talks, however, Mobil allegedly wired an additional $41 million to Citibank accounts controlled by Giffen through his private holding company, Mercator. Prosecutors allege $22 million of that money passed through trusts and corporations in various tax havens and wound up in Swiss bank accounts controlled by Kazakh officials identified only as K0-1 and KO-2. In a U.S. Justice Department memo to Swiss police officials two years ago, however, some of those same accounts are identified as belonging to Kazakh President Nursultan Nazerbayef and his cronies.
Mobil wasn’t the only company dealing with Giffen. The Justice Department memo says international oil companies transferred a total of $114.8 million to a Swiss bank account between March 1997 and September 1998, of which $60 million allegedly flowed into accounts controlled by Nazerbayef and other top officials. The transfers include $61.8 million from Amoco and its affiliates, now part of BP , and $30 million from Phillips Petroleum, which merged with Conoco in 2002 to form ConocoPhillips .
No officials from those companies have been accused of wrongdoing.
This whole incident is called "Kazakhgate":
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhgate
The pressure to expand in Kazakhstan hasn't stopped. Even as recent as 2016, Chevron and Exxon teamed up to put forward $36.8 Billion dollars to further developing Kazakhstan and it's oil infrastructure. That's a lot of money. This is a value of half of Bill Gates' entire net worth, all spent in a foreign country in one year by these American-based companies.
http:// fortune.com/2016/07/06/chevron-oil-kazakhstan/
We can see the GDP exploded in Kazakhstan after the 1990s, after the oil infrastructure was built up (with a dip in the last few years because of the price of oil being so low):
http:// www.multpl.com/chart/kazakhstan-gdp-per-capita-fcc7b10069f67052.png
Thankfully, we don't have a situation like we have in Chad, where Exxon essentially owns the national economy, which is a topic I talked about in a previous article:
https:// www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/6aaacb/exxon_owns_the_country_of_chad/
Here we can see that Kazakhstan has a similarly lop-sided export market, but not quite as bad as Chad. Kazakhstan exports about 50% in oil and another 25% in mining, which isn't quite as bad as the 96% oil export stranglehold over Chad's economy.
https:// upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Kazakhstan_Export_Treemap.jpg
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MEMERS discard, just for diggers
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However the real key is that they own their own oil resources, it was not stolen from them. When Kazakhstan got independence from the USSR, they had essentially 100% control of their oil reserves, and were able to sell it to companies in a smart way where they retained most of the ownerships. This is unlike Chad, which was essentially conquered by foreigners, and then the government and people have had to fight to claw back ownership of their own country at every step of the way. In Kazakhstan they were lucky that the higher power that controlled them (Russia) simply collapsed, leaving them in control of themselves by default. Then, rather than be conquered by force, they rather intelligently wielded their power, resulting in these fancy cities (rather than it all being stored away in the Chevron and Exxon Mobil coffers).
Here's a breakdown of the ownership of the oil industry:
The leading oil industry is state-owned oil company KazMunayGas. The landmark foreign investment in Kazakh oil industry is the TengizChevroil joint venture, owned 50% by ChevronTexaco, 25% by ExxonMobil, 20% by the Government of Kazakhstan, and 5% by Lukarco of Russia. The Karachaganak natural gas and gas condensate field is being developed by BG, Agip, ChevronTexaco, and Lukoil. Also Chinese, Indian and Korean oil companies are involved in the Kazakhstan's oil industry.
https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_policy_of_Kazakhstan#Oil
When I originally came up with the idea for this article, I wanted to title it "Exxon owns Kazakhstan" because it seemed similar to the Chad situation at first blush. However after seeing the motorcycle video through Astana shows that the situation on the ground is quite a far cry from the situation in Chad. And seeing how the ownership numbers break down, with the government owning most of the oil and its income, rather than Chad who was just recently able to get control of just a mere 25% and is in debt to Glencore over a billion dollars for doing so.
One is a story of pillaging and being taken advantage of to the point of causing war, while the other is a story of a government inheriting vast riches that it sold and used in part to enrich the people of Kazakhstan. This is a story of Exxon having to cooperate with others in order to get access to what they want.
And an additional interesting note is that Kazakhstan has had the same president since 1990, Nursultan Nazarbayev. He remained in power despite Kazakhgate, bringing to question the legitimacy of democracy in Kazakhstan. However the people of Kazakhstan are likely so happy from the development over the last few decades that they have little reason to question the system.
Now the Russian containment strategy. After the USSR collapsed, the US wanted to gain control or make allies out of the countries that were formerly part of the USSR and are now independent. If they're all strong friends of the west, then they won't turn back to Russia 50 years down the line. They want to prevent the USSR from reforming because it is a serious challenge to US global hegemony.
This similar to the China containment strategy, which is a big reason why the US conquered and then developed Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines. This geographically boxes China in, like some world-sized game of Go, and keeps them from expanding their empire as easily.
This is why Japan got so rich after WW2 and made all our electronics in the 90s. Same with Taiwan now. We pumped money in to them, so they would get rich, while also making our stuff for cheap. When the people of the country become rich because of another country, they will ally with that country. By making these countries rich, in a way the everyday person can see and feel, we guarantee they will not turn back to China or Russia. This is the Russia containment strategy. This is why Kazakhstan is so nice. This is why Exxon gets all the subsidies it gets from the US government. Because it is a bulwark against Russian expansion. Not only geopolitical expansion, but the expansion of the Russian oil oligopoly as well. So these oil companies have skin in the game, in regards to boxing in Russia and China. So the oil companies will work together with the government in order to bring about the enrichment of defectors from the other major superpowers, while simultaneously gaining access to their resources and making a profit. Like Kazakhstan.