I believe what happened in the Gulf of Mexico was not an accident, but a perfectly planned operation most likely paid on COD terms by the Russian oil-controlling political mafia, which had main goals:1. Maximally damage the environment, businesses and consequently, the US economy;
2. Trigger up the oil prices.
At the time of GOM catastrophe it sounded like just another conspiracy theory. Well supported by the scheme of things and pretty reasonable considering Russia's corrupt games on international fields as well as BP's not-so-unblemished character, but still - a conspiracy theory or an allegation, at best.
Today it sounds like a statement of fact. Today BP is helping Russia launder the money expropriated by Kremlin from YUKOS.
Now, let me make it clear - I don''t give a flying balalaika about YUKOS's money or YUKOS itself for that matter, since in my book M. Khodorkovsky is as much a commie-regime-raised hustler, a criminal and an aggression/occupation/ethnic cleansing - supporting asshole, as V.Putin himself, the difference between the two being Mr. Khodorkovsky's inability, despite his huge efforts, to get what Putin got instead. Namely - almost unlimited assets worldwide and totally unrestricted political power in Russia.
That said, I want to appraise this situation from the Western point of view. Let's pretend Mr. Khodorkovsky is an angel who never has fallen. Let's pretend his sentencing should cost to Russian authorities more than aggression, occupation and ethnic cleansing combined, committed by the same Russian authorities in Georgia during the last 20+years. Let's believe Mr. Khodokovsky's freedom is more valuable than the lives, livelihood, homes and future of thousands of people murdered, destroyed, robbed, turned into refugees in their own country by Kremlin - and all this in Georgia alone, not to mention other geopolitical entities and Russia itself.
Let's insist that the confiscated assets of YUKOS deserve more attention and should get more adequate reaction than occupation of the 20% of an sovereign State and annihilation of the assets of ecological, historical and cultural heritage that belongs to all mankind.
In other words, let's sing "Khodorkovsky Über Alles!"
OK. I'm squeezing myself into that choir. Yet as a nameless, faceless, off-key but nosy member of that choir, I'm asking:
Dearest West,
If Russian authorities, surprisingly disgraced by you, are going to be denied visas to your shores and soils, if their accounts in your banks are going to be scrupulously examined and even frozen, - tell me please, how should a corporation of irresponsible, shameless, unprofessional bunch of greedy crooks entering into biggest money laundering process of the 21st century be treated by the same old dearest you?
Isn't your reaction to Budapest 1956, Prague 1966, Tbilisi 1989, Sokhumi 1993, Grozny 1994-2000, Georgia 2008, awarding the 2014 Olympics, 2018 World Cup and who knows what not to Kremlin quite enough to prove how tolerant, all-forgiving, peace-loving, down-to-earth you are when it comes to appeasing the evil and safeguarding the core of your moral body, aka CH4 price?
And should you keep preaching your great values to the rest of the world? You sure could. The problem is - nobody wants to listen anymore.
