[Proud_USA_Republican]

This is only the begining. Putin and his ex-kgb Kremlin buddies have seized most of the energy resources in Russia.

Now comes many years of them thuging eastern and western europe via energy prices and policies. Their military is a joke. So now they are going to try to regain superpower status by controling the flow of energy to Europe, India, and China.
Anyone doesn't ass kiss Kremlin butt, expect a quaduple increase in prices for NG and Oil.

[propertius]

As many predicted Russia is now using energy as a political weapon. A self-fulfilling prophecy for the toothless, craven euroweenies. They are so dependent on Russian oil and gas they never dared to criticize Putin's excesses and democratic crackdowns, thus encouraging him to behave as unaccountably as he wanted.

Don't get me wrong. Russia, of course, has the right to charge market prices for its gas. But the petty, vindictive and hypocritical manner in which Putin has gone about this does not befit the leader of a country that now holds the presidency of the G8.

[FreedomCalls]

Now comes many years of them thuging eastern and western europe via energy prices and policies.

How is charging capitalist market prices instead of subsidized socialist prices for a land that is no longer a part of their country "thugging" someone? If Puerto Rico were to vote to become independent, should the United States continue to subsidize the building of roads there?