Posted on 04/27/2022 8:37:02 PM PDT by Cronos
This is a big risk for Tussia.
To me it looks like complete wishful thinking in their invasion of Ukraine.
No logistics, no planning.
Is Russia going to eat their gas?
For a Putin supporter, any country that is making themselves independent of Russia’s gas makes them “idiots”
Putin couldn’t wait, he thought Ukraine would be a cakewalk and Russian forces would be back home in time for the May Victory Day celebrations
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Not idiots. Energy supply is a massive strategic risk.
Russia is simply an inherently unreliable source, politically.
It is a perpetually, genetically hostile state to Poland and all of Eastern Europe. Nobody should ever have plugged vital infrastructure to Russia. Did you miss the nine outages he mentioned, all of them due to Russia playing politics?
For a utility manager this is simply unacceptable.
Its OK to buy commodities, that can be substituted, from such a failed society, but not things that have to be provided with utter reliability and cannot easily be substituted.
Like the Middle East and Iran and Pakistan, Russia sucks. It will always suck, it is stuck in a vicious historical cycle that it cannot ever escape.
I saw them doing maneuvers in Belarus. A lot of time to get their logistics in place and set things up to reinforce the assault on Kyiv. They were able to blow things up, all right. But that was about it.
He’s selling his gas and oil to China and India at a steep discount - and they still aren’t buying that much.
“Is Russia going to eat their gas”?
No, they won’t because they have plenty of wheat and other crops.
Hope you exclude Israel from your ‘middle east sucks’ paradigm
In Demark, Norway and Poland,they are now constructing the Baltic pipe getting gas from Norway, and it will be in place on the 1st of October. It’s a 10 bcm pipeline so it’s a significant addition.
Floating LNG terminals – floating storage and regasification units – can be installed in a matter of months. And some of them will be there for next winter, in Germany and the Netherlands.
Right now, EU countries are turning back on old coal and oil-fired power plants to ease the pressure from the gas crisis.
Gas is more than double what it was a year ago, so even at a discount he’s making a killing.
The ruble is solid. That tells you Russia is doing fine.
You are missing the point. Russia’s economy relies on selling energy resources. They keep shrinking their potential market, and selling at a discount. Very bad for their economy.
Russia proving itself to be an unreliable partner just hastens the move away from Russia.
I hope it moves us to building more nuclear power stations.
You have a lot to say about Russians. Most of it stereotypical garbage. Have you ever been there? Do you know any Russians? You from Spain? It sucks big time. Wasn’t for EU drip feed it would be a basket case
The rubble is as “solid” as north Korea currency.
Putin’s regime imposed a clampdown, preventing the purchase or sale of foreign currency. They also doubled their interest rates.
If a dictatorship declares afixed exchange rate and cuts off currency trading, you cannot claim that currency to be “stable “
Buwayas post was about Russia, the state, not the Russian people. Do re read post 26, he doesn’t comment on the Russian people
The trap is that it is not this one gang that is the problem.
The trouble is that such a gang is the inevitable consequence of the social form of Russia. Russia CANNOT ever have a normal government. It is set up such that it has no cultural or psychological defense from predatory gangs. One of these will always come up on top.
The trap is that it is not this one gang that is the problem.
The trouble is that such a gang is the inevitable consequence of the social form of Russia. Russia CANNOT ever have a normal government. It is set up such that it has no cultural or psychological defense from predatory gangs. One of these will always come up on top.
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