Posted on 06/25/2024 2:47:25 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
The 14th EU package and the latest American sanctions spell BIG TROUBLE for Russia. And Putin starts showing signs of fear.
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“The WORLD has just shut off Russian gas, and nobody’s in darkness.”
Must be a pretty small world you live in if you believethat. But it does explain a lot!
Remember the local commies here in the US. They promise us that “this time” they will get it right, PROMISE!
Except they weren’t wrong 13 times, like the clowns who are pushing the 14th round of “sanctions”.
Nobody listens to Konstantine. The Russians made every effort to deliver all the gas they could under the existing contracts. Hell, they still pipe it through Ukraine into the EU. We blew up their pipeline, impounded the compressors that were out for service in Canada. They were stopped in Germany as part of the sanctions. We cut them off SWIFT and froze their accounts. Finland refused pipeline deliveries across their border so the Russians had to start flaring it.
We impounded all of their accounts where someone could pay them.
And when gas slowed down, we started shrieking that Putin cut off the gas. It’s retarded.
It would be like claiming your grocery store refused to sell you groceries after you blew up their delivery trucks, organized a boycott of the store, stole their cash registers and convinced the bank to close their accounts.
Only an idiot would think that way... or a Neocon, or this Konstantine clown taht neocons love so much.
Sure Jan
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“Sure Jan”
LOL.
Like the US, Russia is self sufficient. They have everything they need to support an economy. Sanction cause dislocations, but will be ineffective in the end. Plus Russian people are willing to put up with hardship. NATO countries will fold like a tent when hardships becomes a daily occurrence.
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Russia Dethrones U.S. as Top EU Natural Gas Supplier Jun 17, 2024
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Poor EU, they are getting it from both ends of the stick. Lot's of luck this winter. Thanks again, US
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"But their importance goes beyond that. They have also provided a safety valve to European companies in the last five years. Ukraine’s storage facilities are bigger than those of any European Union (EU) country and amount to about 28% of EU needs......"
“They still haven’t shut down deliveries to Europe.”
Well, I can see you bothered to read what was written rather than what you might have comprehended. I wrote, “IF Putin gets miffed, he just shuts off the gas... Didn’t say he did in any way, just tht he can. Please try to read what is being said before you start calling people names like simpleton.
wy69
“The world has just shut off Russian gas, and nobody’s in darkness.”
In April 2022, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said “the era of Russian fossil fuels in Europe will come to an end”. On 18 May 2022, the European Union published plans to end its reliance on Russian oil, natural gas and coal by 2027. But most likely by buying from Russian supported countries.
So even if they stopped buyng from Russia direct, countries like Germany and others are buying from countries that do receive product from Russia. These countries selling their imports are called “laundromat countries.” And the US is no different. An example is we purchase petroleum products from Greece who launder Russian products like gas, oil, and natural gas. There are many ways to skin a cat. And many of these sales are coming from sources in our government that you won’t see happening like the pentgon. Russia doesn’t lose sales, everyone’s power stays on, and the dollar, or what is in the country being discussed has, moves. And the serfs remain happy while the poeple up the chain talk tough so the serfs can feel good. In other words, “STOP! Or I’ll say stop again.”
wy69
April was several months ago. The situation has just changed. You need to hear this video to update your information.
Stop discarding sources for fear they might go contrary to your narrative. Therein lies the stupidity of the Left.
Especially at the end of the monologue (1/2 hour), listen to his translation of Medvedev’s most recent statement, available in Russian at Medvedev’s web site.
Do you eat all your meals at McDonalds? Must everything be NOW NOW NOW! “Big trouble” does not mean immediate crippling. All the sanctions have a cumulative effect, which is more apparent inside Russia than outside, especially with the Russian Maskirovka machine working overtime.
“This guy has been predicting catastrophe and disaster for russia month after month since the beginning of the war, he the equivalent of beau-beau on this forum, always predicting russia will be totally shattered by each round of sanctions.”
No specifics. I ask for an example, and you give me highly inaccurate generalities, because you have not bothered to even familiarize yourself with what he has actually said. So you repeat generalities of what you think he has probably said, and totally miss the mark. He has NEVER said that this or that sanction will totally cripple the Russian economy as of yesterday. He does give specific examples of what Russia is now doing without, the new cars missing vital parts such as steering wheels, the lack of firefighters, etc., and explains as an economist why that is happening. The sanctions are cumulative. That is what he says, and he says it consistently.
You have two orifices. One should be attached to your brain, and receptive of facts, and able to site them. I have no interest in the other. Come back when you have specifics.
You’re asking me to justify Brandon’s aimlessness?
These sanctions touch on the supply of LNG, which you can’t just shut down at the drop of a hat. It is necessary to find alternative sources of LNG for Europe, despite Brandon’s war on fossil fuels. This has taken time, and also would not shut down the supply of oil and LNG to Asia. In the interim, India has either stopped buying both, or stopped paying for it in Rubles, or something. I forget the details.
But most important, the LNG that is produced in Siberia must be first loaded onto ice breakers, in order to bring it through the Arctic Sea to the Baltic, from which it is shipped across Europe via trucks or rail, and then from there via the Suez to the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, to Asia. These sanctions have shut that route down. No more shipping Russian LNG to other countries via Europe. You might have known this on your own by listening to the first 15 minutes of Konstantin, but I just spelled it out for you. No need to thank me.
My observations based on the situation as described by Konstantin: That doesn’t cut off fuel to Asia altogether, but requires them to take the expensive overland route and pass through several neutral Asiatic countries. But not through Armenia, which is furious with Russia for favoring Azerbaijan over them regarding Nagorno-Karabakh, and declared their independence from the Russian federation. And not through Uzbekistan, which takes the recent threats to their sovereignty by high Russian officials very seriously. They do not want to become another Ukraine, even if Putin would have to pass through Kazakhstan to get to them. But Azerbaijan might be expected to be willing to comply, except the reason they are beholden to Russia is because of the Natural Gas pipeline that they get to build out of Nagorno-Karabakh, because Putin screwed Armenia out of it. So they might have a problem either way, shipping their competitor’s product, or refusing to ship their sugar daddy’s product. Either way has a downside. Tajikistanis just committed a terror attack in Moscow, assuming it wasn’t another Putin false flag operation, but the Tajiks are either scared to refuse Putin in his time of need, or angry for being involved in a false flag. Etc., etc., etc. Asia is complicated in the best of times. Terrorizing one of your neighbors exacerbates those complications, and right now Russia is f@#$ing over at least three, one of them being Ukraine.
Now refuse to read and respond to all this, and go cheer-lead Putin. Brandon pretends to hate him, so he must be a saint./sarc
“Stop discarding sources for fear they might go contrary to your narrative.”
The growth in imports far outstrips the increase in domestic demand, the report says, “suggesting that Turkey is becoming a re-export hub” for fuel sales that are funding the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. It estimates Russia gained more than €5bn in tax revenues from these sales.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1298031/dependence-on-russian-oil-in-the-eu-and-uk/
https://www.dw.com/en/war-in-ukraine-why-is-the-eu-still-buying-russian-gas/a-68925869
It ain’t my narrative and I haven’t voted for a liberal since I started voting in the 1960’s. Hopefully people will begin to understand the world is not what it is presented to be. Saying you won’t kill your neighbor on Tuesday doesn’t mean you can’t coerce your other neighbors to do it. He’s dead either way.
Not buying Russian products from Russia but from those that sell those same products still gets the product supply needs from Russia. And it is selling just as much for the Russian accounts no matter how it gets there and from where.
wy69
“Stop discarding sources for fear they might go contrary to your narrative.”
The growth in imports far outstrips the increase in domestic demand, the report says, “suggesting that Turkey is becoming a re-export hub” for fuel sales that are funding the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine. It estimates Russia gained more than €5bn in tax revenues from these sales.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1298031/dependence-on-russian-oil-in-the-eu-and-uk/
https://www.dw.com/en/war-in-ukraine-why-is-the-eu-still-buying-russian-gas/a-68925869
It ain’t my narrative and I haven’t voted for a liberal since I started voting in the 1960’s. Hopefully people will begin to understand the world is not what it is presented to be. Saying you won’t kill your neighbor on Tuesday doesn’t mean you can’t coerce your other neighbors to do it. He’s dead either way.
Not buying Russian products from Russia but from those that sell those same products still gets the product supply needs from Russia. And it is selling just as much for the Russian accounts no matter how it gets there and from where.
wy69
Hilarious. The information is dated, and you offer it as refutation of a more recent report. May? It’s nearly July. Try harder. Try learning the new information, instead of holding up old reports like a security blanket, Linus.
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