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- Hiking ideas:
- Lake Valhalla. 1 hour 20 mins away.
- Mailbox Peak: difficult and one that I’ve been thinking off for quite sometime.
- Blowout:
- Putin used Russia’s oil and natural gas behemoths for two purposes: increase Russia’s dominance in world order by supplying key sources of energy and make himself and those close to him rich through corruption.
- Apparently, the companies too aren’t technologically advanced - they don’t have to because they face no competition.
- They were close to extracting the easy stuff from the earth and needed technology, which rich American companies were happy to provide, to go further.
- For example, Shell claimed they were capable of extracting oil from cold Alaskan waters but failed miserably, because of both incompetence and carelessness, when met nature.
- Russian spies in US in 2010s were highly ineffective - they were caught, bugged (without their knowledge, of course) or incompetent. However, a strange thing happened. A random guy in Romania or something, who wasn’t very smart but had a lot of free time, hacked and released embarrassing stuff for many celebrities. So, someone in Russia realized they could cause harm through internet while sitting at home.
- The book will probably connect this with US presidential elections later.
- This chapter, while interesting, kept me wondering till the end what point the author was trying to make!
- Putin used Russia’s oil and natural gas behemoths for two purposes: increase Russia’s dominance in world order by supplying key sources of energy and make himself and those close to him rich through corruption.