[buwaya]

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.

[Long Jon No Silver]

Hope you exclude Israel from your ‘middle east sucks’ paradigm

[Cronos]

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.

[Long Jon No Silver]

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

[canuck_conservative]

it is stuck in a vicious historical cycle that it cannot ever escape

Russia could escape that and become a normal country again, there are sensible people there, but it has to first get rid of the murderous gangsters now running things ... and that won't be so easy

one thing for sure, as long as Putin is in charge, Russia will be in a death-spiral