The bigger problem was not finding reserves, but development targets. The same was true under Saddam. The Iraqi oilfields had ridiculously low production targets. Reason being, if you missed them, yo… (View Post)

Soviet geologists in the oil and gas sector were pretty good. No reason to doubt they wouldn't be pretty handy at finding minerals too. (View Post)

I wonder if this is how it goes now - every time one of the MAGA crowd steps out of line, there's a host of FBI/CIA waiting to drop them in it. (View Post)

All these former leaders should stand together behind Starmer - and ask Trump to reconsider his decision to end the shipment of weapons and the sharing of intel. (View Post)

Starmer and Macron and Merz need a call to Trump. "Reinstate the intelligence - and the weapons deiveries - or we use all the Russian money currently frozen to go and buy weapons for Ukraine. Fr… (View Post)