Posted on 07/16/2022 3:35:24 PM PDT by Mariner
German energy giant Uniper has been forced to tap into its emergency supplies before the winter season after Russia's Gazprom shut off natural gas deliveries to the country.
According to a Financial Times report, the Düsseldorf-based company, which is Europe's biggest buyer of Russian gas, said that beginning earlier this week it's been taking gas from storage units amid dwindling supplies.
The company has had to lean on its emergency winter supplies to meet contractual obligations to its customers, per the report, as it hasn't received any supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which is undergoing maintenance through July 21.
Germany has already been forced to accept only about 40% of expected gas deliveries from Russia, which has worsened the country's energy crunch.
"This development makes it harder to reach the storage levels necessary for the winter and reduces the reserves available in the event of a gas deficit situation," Germany's Federal Network agency said, per the FT.
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This is serious enough to split NATO.
“This is serious enough to split NATO.”
Put down the bong.
That is what happens when you join up with the WEF.
Trump warned Germany about becoming dependent on Russian gas, and sanctioned Russia. The Russian gas sanctions were removed by Joe Biden.
I believe they have already split....recently designating natural gas as green.
Is this about the annual 10 to 14 day shutdown of Nordstream 1 for annual maintenance?
If so....
Meh.
Let’s see what happens on July 22nd.
“This is serious enough to split NATO.”
Unless German can get its coal plants running (not a simple task) and the coal to keep them running, then yes.
In fact, I suspect Russia has been slowly turning the screws so as to be able to strike at the most opportune moment.
And when they do strike, they demand NATO break up and the US leave Europe if they want the gas restarted.
At that point, it will be up to Germany as to whether have their citizens spend 5 or 6 months huddled in heated shelters, with industry shut down, or to accept Russia’s terms.
If any NATO country continues to buy from Russia, in quantities above or dates beyond their stated commitments...that is a split.
And would foreshadow a political split.
They all know the stakes.
I expect there will be a huge ceremony honoring Murkel, probly awarding her the famous “Iron Krotch”, for dismantling their nuke and coal plants? ——yeah, I’ll wait for the ceremony. It’s bound to be a doozy?
Only “President Biden” (meaning his unknown teleprompter writers) could have been so incompetent and/or sabotage-minded that they have successfully managed to:
1. Drive Russia and China together as a military alliance. [Keeping Russia and China divided has been a top U.S. strategic imperative since the 1950s.]
2. Drive both Saudi Arabia AND Iran [otherwise enemies] to request to join the BRICS [Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa] economic and currency zone. {The U.S. Dollar as the world reserve currency aka the petrodollar? Gone with the wind.}
3. Driven Russia, Iran and India together, to create the the International North-South Transport Corridor, short-cutting the Suez Canal and making the EU irrelevant to trade.
Way to go, Team Biden!!
The International North-South Transport Corridor:
“The duration of the journey is less than 25 days, as opposed to the approximately 40 days it now takes to move cargo from Russia to India through the Baltic Sea – North Sea – Mediterranean Sea – Suez Canal – Red Sea -Arabian Sea route.”
Russia has started using an alternate route to ship goods to India, through Caspian Sea and Iran, bypassing the Mediterranean Sea – Suez Canal route. Russia dispatched a test cargo to India from St. Petersburg via Iran o Saturday, operationalising the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC). According to Russia Briefing, Iran’s state-owned shipping firm has announced the first transit of Russian products to India via the INSTC.
Economic Times, quoting Dariush Jamali, director of a joint-owned Iranian-Russian terminal in Astrakhan, reported that goods originating in St. Petersburg are on their way to Russian city Astrakhan, which is the Caspian port city located on the delta of Volga river. In Astrakhan, the cargo will be reloaded at the Solyanka Port in the city. They will then go across the Caspian Sea to Iran’s Anzali Port, where they will be carried by road through Iran to the port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. The goods will again be loaded onto ships at the Iranian port, and from there the goods will be delivered to India’s largest container port in Navi Mumbai.
Two 40-foot (12.192-meter) containers of wood laminate sheets totalling 41 tonnes were included in the test shipment. The duration of the journey is less than 25 days, as opposed to the approximately 40 days it now takes to move cargo from Russia to India through the Baltic Sea – North Sea – Mediterranean Sea – Suez Canal – Red Sea -Arabian Sea route. Aside from shortening the time it takes for transport between India and Russia, INSTC is seen as a feasible alternative for Indo-Russian trade in the face of present international issues. The journey time will shorten even more after a rail route Iran is constructing is completed.
Please see 13.
Notable to #3 and China’s BRI, the U.S. Navy becomes irrelevant.
Eurasia is becoming an internal super economic bloc.
Thanks to the idiots who write Biden’s scripts.
#13. 3 was a typo.
“If any NATO country continues to buy from Russia, in quantities above or dates beyond their stated commitments...that is a split. And would foreshadow a political split.”
No, your original post said it would “split NATO.” To me, that equates to fracturing NATO, or breaking up NATO. Hell, even now not all NATO countries are in lockstep on all sanctions; but that did not break up or fracture NATO.
I know you’d like to see NATO break up and dissolve, but I think you’re jumping the gun on this particular item. In fact, NATO is stronger and more unified today than it was in January. Time will tell how long that holds, but I think your ringing NATO’s death knell is hyperbole.
“Unless German can get its coal plants running (not a simple task) and the coal to keep them running, then yes. In fact, I suspect Russia has been slowly turning the screws so as to be able to strike at the most opportune moment. And when they do strike, they demand NATO break up and the US leave Europe if they want the gas restarted. At that point, it will be up to Germany as to whether have their citizens spend 5 or 6 months huddled in heated shelters, with industry shut down, or to accept Russia’s terms.”
You’re not serious.
Europe: $20 trillion in GDP
Russia: $1.5 trillion in GDP.
Europe can squash Russia like a bug if it feels like it. Instead, it continues to fund Russia’s war economy.
“And when they do strike, they demand NATO break up and the US leave Europe if they want the gas restarted”
That’s like demanding all Democrats no longer run for office.
Not likely.
However, a likely scenario is that Russia refuses to sell energy/fertilizer/grain etc. to any NATO country.
And let the chips fall as they may.
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