“The eastern Siberian oil field that feeds the only Chinese pipeline was drilled and maintained by foreign majors.”
Yep, a fundamental problem for Russia is that for 30 years the way to make money is through graft and corruption. Any Russian with intelligence and ambition has pursued that.
That means everything else relies on foreigners. Anything difficult in the oil industry has been contracted out to German engineering firms.
Dear Renfrew
Did you take a few sentences describing Biden and adjust them to describe Russia?
I, myself, carry no brief for Russia or Putin. But as we learned very well over the last 10 years, the first thing we are told by the MSM and its acolytes is a lie; then when we find out more of the facts we see the truth is 180 degrees opposite.