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From the Forbes article:
Gazprom announced that it will instead ship gas previously transiting Ukraine to the Greek-Turkish border via a Black-Sea underwater pipeline. Gazprom’s CEO brushed off European objections that it has no infrastructure to handle such shipments, stating that “We have informed our European partners, and now it is up to them to put in place the necessary infrastructure starting from the Turkish-Greek border.” In other words, Europe must undertake a massive infrastructure investment to replace a well-functioning transmission system, just for Putin’s convenience.
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It is talking about the South Stream pipeline, not yet built, that is not proposed to be routed to Turkey.
No pipelines exist to handle the volumes they are talking about.
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Do you honestly believe that 4 days ago, Russia cut off most of the Natural Gas to Europe and NONE of the mainstream media even mention it in passing? No articles? I’ve seen several blogger types pick it up, but a first I’ve seen from someone like Forbes.
The point here isn’t whether or not there are alternative routes. This gas cut off is a retaliation for sanctions. Surely the EU didn’t really expect that their sanctions would go unanswered.
But maybe they did. They are an arrogant lot.