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Wednesday, 06/08/2022 9:36:16 PM

Wednesday, June 08, 2022 9:36:16 PM

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Mark_my word,_Russia will_win the_lithium contract_in Bolivia
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/why-russia-should-not-win-the-bid-for-bolivias-lithium-commentary/
must see paragraphs 20 -27 just under the aerial picture which read as follows:
There are other geopolitical risks associated with the bid, as well. In the past, Russia has not shied away from using energy and mining assets around the world to assert its geopolitical dominance.

Specifically, Russia has threatened to cut or fully cut energy supplies and commercial activities as a way to exert pressure on non-compliant states.

In the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine, Russia had cut energy supplies – including electricity – to some Eastern European states as a show of force against NATO and to threaten those states into compliance. Russia also cut natural gas flows to Finland in May after Finland pulled out of the nuclear energy deal.

If Bolivia accepts Russia’s bid, the Arce government runs the high risk of Russia using its extraction infrastructure as a pawn in a geopolitical game over hegemony in Latin America. Such a risk becomes greater as the great powers – namely the United States, China, and Russia, increase geopolitical competition in Latin America and throughout the Global South.

Most Bolivians would also not see the benefits of this deal. Russia is a kleptocratic state, where company CEOs, most prominently in the energy, mining, and military sector, are appointed to key formal and informal posts in government.

The government has a direct stake in these companies, and government figures benefit from state-run commercial enterprises like Uranium One/Rosatom.

Vladimir Putin and his cronies in the Kremlin would be the main benefactors of this deal, not the Bolivian people. The project would mainly employ Russians, not Bolivians, and would, in practice, be run directly by the Kremlin.


The Russians are coming.
Remember when Biden tried to tell the Ukrainians last January they were definitely going to be invaded by Russia?
This is the same type of epiphany moment for Chile.
The first Chilean lithium miner to suffer will be our friends at Lithium Chile Inc and their Salar de Coipasa project which straddles the Chile-Bolivian border https://lithiumchile.ca/project/salar-de-coipasa/
When Lithium Chile Inc falls... we will all begin to suffer big time.

The Doctor
PS, and who wants to bet Russia's ally Venezuela is currently buying Baykar Bayraktar TB2 drones today? https://videos.telesurenglish.net/en/content/286003