Posted on 05/20/2022 5:00:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Let the record show that Russia may see cutting off its future revenues as a lesser price to pay than denting Vladimir Putin’s ego. And that could very well be a rational calculation, given the tremendously destabilizing impact that a humiliation in Ukraine would likely produce. However, the humiliations stacking up on the other side of the equation carry a cost too, sometimes literally :
Russia will cut natural gas supplies to Finland on Saturday, according to Finland’s state energy provider, the latest salvo in a growing confrontation between the two countries over the war in Ukraine.
Finland this week applied to join NATO, reversing a longstanding policy of military neutrality and angering Russia, which sees the eastward expansion of the alliance as a threat to its national security. Moscow had previously threatened “retaliation” if Finland joined NATO. The two countries share an 830-mile border.
The ostensible reason for the halt in Russian gas exports, though, was a dispute over payments that had been rumbling for weeks.
Gasum, the Finnish energy provider, said on Friday that Russia was suspending the supply of natural gas to Finland starting at 7 a.m. the next morning because the country had failed to comply with Moscow’s demand to make payments in rubles. The move comes just days after Moscow also suspended electricity exports to Finland, citing payment issues.
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US OIL PRODUCTION RAMPING UP, TEXAS LEADING THE WAY.
“The total rig count increased to 728 this week—273 rigs higher than the rig count this time in 2021 and the highest count since March 2020. Drilling has picked up substantially since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, adding 78 rigs.”
Hitler also understood that with things like Lend Lease and Flying Tigers that we were already at war with the Axis; there was nothing neutral about the Japanese oil embargo or arming the UK to the teeth.
I live within a couple of miles of two sites that were targeted by saboteurs before our entrance into WWI because we were violating our neutrality then as well; the Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City NJ in 1916 and the Canadian Car and Foundry fire in Lyndhurst NJ in early 1917 were caused by people upset that we were arming the UK despite our alleged neutrality - while we abided by the UK’s blockade of Germany.
How much has pipeline capacity increased?
This oil is not coming from Canada.
You cite oil production increases, so I asked (Canada has nothing to do with this question)
Rephrased: How much has US pipeline capacity increased?
“In 2021, two major gas pipeline projects, the Permian Highway and Whistler projects, came online to increase takeaway capacity from the Permian Basin by roughly a quarter”
Capacity from the Permian Basin (where the major ramp is occuring) is not a problem. Try something else.
Turkey has put a stop to this; neither Finland nor Sweden will be joining NATO.
What nobody in Finland appears to have thought through is, once they decided to play hardball with Russia (by expressing an interest in joining NATO), what was to stop Russia from playing hardball with Finland?
If they were dumb enough to take our lead, then they haven't read up on history.
I only wanted to know if it had increased that’s all. Thanks
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