Posted on 06/20/2022 1:52:52 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Germany sent natural gas turbines to Canada for repairs, and Canada won’t return them due to sanctions.
This resulted in a big dropoff in gas supply via Nordstream 1 to Germany.
Germany is desperately trying to get them back quickly, but in the meantime havok may come for Germany and Italy
Time to open NSII.
Cut off NordStream 1 completely. Let the stinking Putinistas bathe in their gas.
It will get sold to India or China instead. -shrug- They won’t drown in their own gas.
As it should. They pooh-poohed the Trump initiative to set up a more substantial gas trade with the US. Germany in particular was quite hostile to the idea of bringing more North American gas into Europe to wean them off Russian supplies. Said it was a stupid idea and that they didn’t have any need for it.
Whoopsie.
Canada and Germany are NATO “partners.” With “partners” like this, who needs enemies. These Deep State fools just will not stop making things worse for themselves.
Given that can occur, Europe could reverse course.
They can’t sell the gas to China that easily.
Building new ones is going to take years, or even decades—Siberia is a big place.
Also note that the Chinese will see that they are the sole customer so will drive a hard bargain. China always plays the long game. They’ll wait until Putin is desperate enough to sign away his independence.
the Deep State are the pro-Putin folks who abound. Those who constantly say it is ok for a nazi dictator like Putin to invade other countries
Here is the definition of Deep State:
Pro-Zelensky, pro-Biden, pro-Ministry of Disinformation, pro-interventionist like Biden, her ex boss.
Trump, Russia, and How Not to Lose the Information War With Nina Jankowicz
https://irishtechnews.ie/trump-russia-the-information-war-nina-jankowicz/
She herself said she is Polish/Ukrainian. She worked for the Ukrainian government before working for Biden.
Her job was to attack Trump and knock down anything said negatively about Biden or Ukraine.
I wonder if Trump delivered a big can of “I told you so?”
You’re a real economic genius.
Wonderful General too…
The boomeranging suicide sanctions need to be ended immediately.
Amazing lack of foresight those Europeans use.
They manage to find a way to screw up with depressing regularity.
Did the virtue signaling krauts clear it with Scoldielocks first?
Because they stupidly ignored Trump, today Germany has no LNG terminal to receive LNG shipments. They have had to rent four floating facilities until they can build their own permanent docking point. The rented facilities supply only 20% of what the need. The rest they have to pipe in from Holland, France, etc.
Italy is one of the PIIGS.
Did Gazprom cut the flow...
Or did Italy’s check bounce?
Though I'd argue there are no prudent countries in the EU.
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