That’s funny. It’s always about pipelines. You could pick the most mountainous region on the Planet, and someone will come along and claim it’s about pipelines.
You say that, forgetting that Russia’s future and economic livelihood depend on being Europe’s sole major
gas supplier, right now.
It’s why doing whatever Obama could to stop the South Stream Pipeline project was so important.
This is becoming an existential fight.
Should have got our own damn oil elsewhere.