Posted on 02/26/2022 8:30:37 PM PST by BenLurkin
It was not immediately clear how important the pipeline was and whether the blast could disrupt gas shipments outside the city or the country. Despite the war, Ukraine continues to ship Russian natural gas to Europe.
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Russia has gas pipelines too, and now they are on the table.
Wait until they start cutting undersea cables. The offshoring West that delights in international wage arbitrage and screwing their itizens will lose their offshore Indian IT programmers and die on the vine.
List of major pipelines:
EastMed pipeline: start year unknown, complete in 2025.
Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP): started in 2016, complete in 2020.
Trans-Anatolian gas pipeline (Tanap): satrted in 2015, complete in 2018.
Nabucco pipeline: initial start date unknwon, was expected to be complete in 2018. Aborted in 2013.
Nord Stream Pipeline: started in 2005, complete in 2012.
Medgaz pipeline: started in 2008, complete in 2011.
Langeled pipeline: started in 2004, complete in 2007.
Greenstream pipeline: started in 2003, complete in 2004.
Yamal-Europe pipeline: started in 1994, complete in 1997.
Maghreb–Europe Gas Pipeline: started in 1992, complete in 1997.
Brotherhood pipeline: started in 1982, complete in 1984.
Northern Lights (pipeline): started in 1967, complete in 1969.
bttt
But the environmental impact statement is not done yet!
Regards,
Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised breakaway state located in the narrow strip of land between the river Dniester and the Moldovan–Ukrainian border that is internationally recognised as part of Moldova. Its capital and largest city is Tiraspol. Transnistria has been recognised by only three other unrecognised or partially recognised breakaway states: Abkhazia, Artsakh, and South Ossetia. Transnistria is designated by the Republic of Moldova as the Administrative-Territorial Units of the Left Bank of the Dniester (Romanian: Unitățile Administrativ-Teritoriale din stînga Nistrului), or Stînga Nistrului ("Left Bank of the Dniester").
The region's origins can be traced to the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic which was formed in 1924 within the Ukrainian SSR. During World War II, the Soviet Union took parts of the Moldavian ASSR, which was dissolved, and of the Kingdom of Romania's Bessarabia to form the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1940. The present history of the region dates to 1990, amidst the disintegration of the Soviet Union, when the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was established in hopes that it would remain within the Soviet Union should Moldova seek unification with Romania or independence, the latter occurring in August 1991. Shortly afterwards, a military conflict between the two parties started in March 1992 and concluded with a ceasefire in July of the same year.
As part of that agreement, a three-party (Russia, Moldova, Transnistria) Joint Control Commission supervises the security arrangements in the demilitarised zone, comprising 20 localities on both sides of the river. Although the ceasefire has held, the territory's political status remains unresolved: Transnistria is an unrecognised but de facto independent semi-presidential republic with its own government, parliament, military, police, postal system, currency, and vehicle registration. Its authorities have adopted a constitution, flag, national anthem, and coat of arms. After a 2005 agreement between Moldova and Ukraine, all Transnistrian companies that seek to export goods through the Ukrainian border must be registered with the Moldovan authorities. This agreement was implemented after the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM) took force in 2005. Most Transnistrians have Moldovan citizenship, but many also have Russian, Romanian, or Ukrainian citizenship. The main ethnic groups are Russians, Moldovans, and Ukrainians.
Transnistria, along with Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Artsakh, is a post-Soviet "frozen conflict" zone. These four partially recognised states maintain friendly relations with each other and form the Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations.
Transnistria is indeed on the soft underbelly of Ukraine. It is located where that “appendix” of Ukraine next to the Black Sea.
Shame that we don’t hear more about those nations.
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