https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/heat-dome-roasting-millions-across-central-us
anyone seen this?
BREAKING NEWS: In exactly six (6) days, Germany will be completely cut-off from Russian natural gas.
The Nordstream One pipeline will cease all natural gas flows into Germany in Six days.
By Presidential Decree signed by Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, Russia will no longer sell any “vital commodities” to “unfriendly nations.”
Without natural gas from Russia, the German economy will . . . stop.
When Germany’s economy stops, the economies of other European countries, which also got their natural gas via the Nordstream One pipeline, will also . . . stop.
About two weeks after the European economy stops, the U.S. economy will be forced to shut down for lack of goods and services.
The West has reached “The End” thanks to its own Sanctions against Russia.
The only thing left for the West to do either lift all Sanctions from Russia and HOPE they respond favorably; or go to war against Russia.
The economies of western nations cannot now be saved from collapse without cheap Russian energy.
Lift the Sanctions or declare war. There are no other options.
Oh, and by the way . . . how would the west wage war without cheap energy to power it?
DUUUUHHHHHH.
The Sanctions imposed by the West against Russia have now backfired massively. They have destroyed the economy of the West.
Russia has won.
The west has lost.
The facts are not in dispute.
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BERLIN — Germany’s vice chancellor said Thursday he suspects that Russia may not resume natural gas deliveries to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline after planned maintenance work in July, complicating the outlook for this winter.
Russia reduced gas flows to Germany, Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia this month, just as European Union countries scramble to refill storage facilities with the fuel used to generate electricity, power industry and heat homes in the winter.
Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom has blamed a technical problem for the reduction in gas flowing through Nord Stream 1, which runs under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany. The company said equipment being refurbished in Canada was stuck there because of Western sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
German leaders have rejected that explanation and called the reductions a political move.
Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also Germany’s economy and climate minister and responsible for energy, said a “blockade” of the pipeline is possible starting July 11, when regular maintenance work is due to start. In previous summers, the work has entailed shutting the for about 10 days, he said.
“But given the pattern we have seen, it wouldn’t be so super-surprising if some little technical detail is found and then they say, ‘We can’t switch it on again; now we found something during maintenance and that’s it,’” Habeck told a forum organized by the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
“So the situation is certainly tight,” he said, stressing the importance of filling storage and getting liquefied natural gas terminals up and running. At present, Germany is continuing to store gas, albeit at about half the rate it was before deliveries through Nord Stream 1 were reduced, the vice chancellor said.
A week ago, Habeck activated the second phase of Germany’s three-stage emergency plan for natural gas supplies, warning that Europe’s biggest economy faced a “crisis” and storage targets for the winter were at risk.
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Please stop with the “trust Trump’s plan” -that is just a call for inaction and the same BS we had here as the Dems stole the election-
That is an escalation. That sounds like a German national security threat. Planned or inept?
They are trying so hard to make WWIII a hot war. They will fail.
Russia will also suffer greatly during that time. They will be weakened alo.
The U.S. has all the fuels we need. We just choose not to use them right now. But we could.
The U.S. has the land, climate, and resources to weather many disasters... the real question is: who has the greater resolve to weather the disaster?
Russians know how to suffer, how to hunker down, how to scratch out a minimal existence. They are stubborn as he££ and see wry humor in surviving.
Americans are stubborn too. And innovative. We will see if we still have the hardiness and resolve we once had.
The resilient will win. No matter who they are.
Add to that pipeline shutdown:
hidenbiden shutting down the Texas Permian basin oil fields:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4076653/posts
And selling oil reserves to China:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4076645/posts
And you have chaos.
maybe figure out a way to go back to coal gasification