[Just mythoughts]

I reread the story and failed to see anything about Poland and Lithuanian refinery purchase.

This article is specifically about Russia and Belarus and the apparent intent is to force Belarus to become part of Russia over a 1996 energy contract.

You surely are not going to claim that Russia's energy contracts give them the right to force independent nations to become part of Russia????

[Lukasz]

I reread the story and failed to see anything about Poland and Lithuanian refinery purchase.

Of course not, it was my commentary to your statement about Putin’s “energy security”. Same fact that they want to increase price is nothing wrong. Actually Belarus pays them pennies.

This article is specifically about Russia and Belarus and the apparent intent is to force Belarus to become part of Russia over a 1996 energy contract.

Putin would like to annex Belarus but Lukashenko claims is also spin. He himself often spoke about such union.

You surely are not going to claim that Russia's energy contracts give them the right to force independent nations to become part of Russia????

Of course not, I don’t know how my post caused that you made this conclusion.