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To: 1rudeboy
There is little reason for the US to view the new Russia-China pipeline as a threat and it may well, on the net, prove to work toward our benefit.

First of all, the new pipeline will take many years to build, and of its capital cost of $55 billion, some $30 billion is to be raised by Gazprom. This will strain both Gazprom and the Russian treasury and limit what other projects and mischief they can undertake.

Moreover, the inevitable delays and corruption that attend such projects will test and may sour the Russia-China relationship. Similarly, Russia is inclined to use energy exports as a political weapon and tends to be heavy handed about it. This is likely to antagonize the increasingly proud and prickly Chinese.

Finally, the project will supplant oil that China now imports from petrostates in the Mid East. Since Iran is first on that list, the new pipeline does not token well for the Iranian regime.

26 posted on 05/31/2014 9:14:24 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: Rockingham
Finally, the project will supplant oil that China now imports from petrostates in the Mid East. Since Iran is first on that list, the new pipeline does not token well for the Iranian regime.

Also considering the US will soon be a net exporter of oil, the entire OPEC organization is going to be seeing demand heading south with a bullet. Which just breaks my little heart. /s

27 posted on 05/31/2014 9:18:23 AM PDT by catfish1957 (Face it!!!! The government in DC is full of treasonous bastards)
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