I doubt there will be a counter-bid, this is Russia. Spiv is the front-man. They're giving us the bear minimum to get out of town. When us Westerners are out of the game, this will unlock the Government grants, tax breaks and soft loans to get this into production. Basically they get us for free. By the time Amur is selling PGMs into the burgeoning Chinese EV market, the share register will look like a Who's Who of the Russian Oligarchy.
I wonder what asset Robin will buy with that $60m from Spiv? We had a revenue generating asset in North Australia, then we had to sell it sharpish and Adam Habib disappeared. Now this. Blatant corruption - we've been shafted.
I thought the original offer was just to test the water and there would be a sweetener. Now this a war in full swing, Spiv obviously thinks he can get us for even less. I doubt there will be a counter offer from another party. If you watch the Panorama on Abramovich you will know that that is not how it works in Russia. So many unanswered question, why was Habib ousted? what about the grants, tax breaks and loans? where is the TEO we paid for?
Anyone else think it more than a coincidence that this is announced on Victory Day? All that military hardware paraded thru Red Square with Putin looking on.
The 'West' will give that $600bn of foreign reserves 'we' confiscated from Russia to Ukraine for rebuilding. All part of the final peace negotiations that Russia will agree to once they have been driven out of Ukraine and their economy has been destroyed by sanctions. Something similar to the Treaty of Versailles.
I wonder how much of that "$88bn annual military budget" actually get's spent as it's intended? Some of it may get misappropriated towards ski lodges, mega yachts, school fees, etc
Russians won't storm the steelworks because they would have to destroy it in the process. If they do get to keep their land corridor, which I doubt, they will want to keep it for themselves.
Well, actually, there's an inter-dimensional race of, shape-shifting, reptilian beings who manipulate global events to keep humans in constant fear, so they can feed off the "negative energy" this creates...
Anyone thinking this is over when Putin says so, are in for a disappointment. Will the Western Democracies permit this lebestraum, and the ethnic cleansing that follows, to go unpunished? What message would that send to China?
That was more of a general question as to when the normalisation of relations with Russia may be expected? When the oligarchs can get their yachts back, for example. May 10th perhaps?