Posted on 09/04/2022 7:34:21 PM PDT by Mariner
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of using energy as a weapon by keeping a critical pipeline to Germany shut down in recent days, exacerbating electricity and natural gas shortfalls ahead of the winter months.
"Russia wants to destroy the normal life of every European — in all countries of our continent," Zelenskyy said in his nightly address on Saturday.
"Where Russia cannot do it by force of conventional weapons, it does so by force of energy weapons. It is trying to attack with poverty and political chaos where it cannot yet attack with missiles. This winter, Russia is preparing for a decisive energy attack on all Europeans."
Russian energy company Gazprom has blamed technical problems for this week's shutdown of Nord Stream 1, saying that oil leaks in turbines must be fixed before natural gas flows resume.
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Да барин - Yes, massa
Я приду барин - I's a commin, massa......
From 1814, I do not care what happened on the Continent of Europe. We should have allied ourselves with Russia, keeping them from the madness of the Revolution instead of safeguarding the Brits, frogs and Eurotrash.
We have an Ocean between us for a reason, we should have kept a strong Navy, and built a country along the dreams of the Founder, not an Empire.
The President of a corrupt, non-NATO country was able to convince the West to provide billions in cash and billions in equipment and inject themselves in your war. Europe is an active participant.
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Not precisely the other way around, but close.
NATO/the West, coerced Ukraine via payoffs and promises of much more, to allow NATO to use them as a weapon against Russia. When it backfired, the weapon broke and is taking down the operators.
Europe was an instigator at the behest of WEF & et al. Ukraine, not satisfied with exorbitant transfer fees on Russian pipeline flows, participated willingly.
Greed uber alles.
Never forget that Russian political culture is still largely derived from the Mongol hordes who over-ran the region in the 13th century. They never really left.
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So is it Slavs channeling Mongols? Mongols possessing Slavs? And what became of the original Rus, who were Nordic?
Russia is huge, with plenty of non-Slavic peoples. It is multi-ethnic.
Wait til people start to die of freezing to death.
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If one can believe the numbers on EU winter reserve supplies, which still leaves a gap for the absence of continuing gas flows, the Euros won’t freeze. They will be economically stressed and forced to become less comfortable.
That may be enough to alter the current order. So far, though, the West is content to throw rapidly depreciating currency and increasingly scarce war materiel into the fire and just double down on the entire operation.
One suspects that winning is not the goal, but destruction is.
Earlier, I heard that the glassworks in Cologne were forced to shut down. I believe it is very difficult and time-consuming to restart glass furnaces.
Lots of idled workers.
Can those wankers actually expect Russia to supply them with gas and oil while they are arming and supporting a barbarian nazi horde on Russia’s doorstep??
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Of course they can. Reality means nothing to the entitled virtue signalers.
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