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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