Russia's Catastrophic Oil & Gas Problem

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Shutting down nuclear energy in favour of fossil fuels was simply insane. The nuclear powerplants in Germany were under no risk of tsunamis, earthquakes etc and we already knew CO2 emissions were a big contributor to climate change. Fission uses tiny amounts of fuel for the same energy output with no direct CO2 emissions (and because the fuel amounts are tiny the transport isn't a major environmental impact either). If you're going to downscale fission the only thing to replace it should be renewables, if you can't handle that load with renewables,don't downscale fission...

Just the day before this video was published, the EU banned 2/3rds of russian oil imports and is expected to decrease its russian oil consumption by over 90%. Meanwhile multiple European countries (baltics, Poland, Finland, Netherlands) have been cut off natural gas by gazprom.

Imagine researching enough material to assemble 40 uninterrupted minutes of insight on a relevant global topic. Also remember, editing out mistakes and keeping tabs on which lines are good enough to make the cut. Then spend time creating all the graphics and animations to illustrate the topic. Thank you so much

By far, one of the most compelling and well-researched videos on this topic. Clear animations and maps that tell the whole story. So gratifying to see this platform used in a way that is relevant and impactful. Independent journalism at its finest! Subbed to CS and Nebula to watch more of your content. Thank you, sir!

The causality between oil prices and Russian wars goes both ways. Not only are Russians better able to afford wars when prices are up, prices also go up in anticipation of a war and related supply chain disruptions and possible reduction in supply.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how unbelieveably stupid german abandonment of nuclar was

I find these videos fascinating because I worked on the pipelines over here in the US. So seeing some of these other projects is very enlightening.

Excellent! Thanks a lot for this kind of objective and very insightful content! Keep up the good work

Honest to God, this is one of the most interesting explanations of how we reached the current geopolitical state. Very well done. Thank you for putting the time to do this.

Same issue as Venezuela, huge oil reserves but when it comes to other industrial products the country has nothing, a nation fully dependent of one market no matter what amount of reservers it has is totally doomed to fail

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Glad I have subscribed to Nebula. Will watch your portfolio

This 39 minute video deserved to be 39 minutes. Everything was super detailed and super important. Thanks for this

Like he said in the video, oil is a dangerous thing to be overly dependent on. Whether you produce it or not. One day its going to run dry and we're gonna be pretty panicky

Great content! Awesome and easy understandable. Thank you

love the longer content please keep it up

"Moscow persists that any pipeline beneath the Caspian Sea would be unacceptable for *environmental* reasons" I laughed out loud at this part

Russia: A pipeline across the Caspian is dangerous! Also Russia: Nord Stream 1 and 2, are 100% safe. We shall proceed.

Thank you for this analysis! So much of this is not talked about in the mainstream.