Gazprom Video for Europeans

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[ganeemead]

You gotta see this...

Making an art form out of messing people's minds...

Roughly, 'This winter's going to be really serious, see ya in the spring.....'

А зима будет большая,
Вот, гляди-ка, за рекой
Осень тихо умирает,
Машет желтою рукой.

Плачут мокрые осины,
Плачет дедушка Aрбат,
Плачет синяя Россия,
Превратившись в листопад.

И, сугробы сокрушая,
Солнце брызнет по весне,
А зима будет большая -
Только сумерки да снег.

[Deaf Smith]

Winter of Discontent II?

[Cathi]

“gary siegel
8 hours ago

But winter will be big —
Here, look on, the river
Quiet autumn dies,
Waving yellow hand.

Crying wet aspen
Crying grandfather Arbat
Crying Blue Russian,
Transformed into a snowfall .

And, smashing the snow drifts ,
The sun falls upon the spring …
But winter will be big —
Only the twilight and snow.

Sung by Varvara Vizbor, and composed by her grandfather, a noted Soviet-era poet.
It was a popular poem in Moscow at one time.

Winter is the time when Russia excels. The EU are complete fools to have put themselves in this position.”

[kiryandil]

LOL! They showed pictures of the Gazprom gas flares.

24/7 FlareCam for the Win!!!

[kiryandil]

In a Big Big way.

[BenLurkin]

The Russkies sure have a peculiar concept of customer relations.

[kiryandil]

I've heard that Brussels sprouts like the cold.

Perhaps Van der Crazy could update us on that in a couple of months.

[lightman]

Friday headliner ping...but only with the translation below!

[lightman]

Post 3 for translation.

“General Winter” has never lost an engagement.

[lightman]

Brussels sprouts, cabbage, broccoli...all improve with some frost.

Also great for hardening acorn and butternut squash.

[kiryandil]

The customers sure have a peculiar concept of how to keep the door to the business unlocked.

[BenLurkin]

“No gas for you.”

Excellent.

[kiryandil]

Neither have his buddies General Moroz and General Sneg...

[ganeemead]

I don’t think their plans include EU countries as customers going into the future.

[montag813]

Trump would be working with Musk and Boring Company, and have a gas pipeline halfway done under the Atlantic by now.

[cranked]

Customer relations?

Has absolutely nothing to do with ‘customer service’.

Europeans have a knack for making sh*tty foreign policy decisions that have ramifications, and then, doubling down on them.....

[Widget Jr]

Insulting customers is a suicidal business strategy. Oh wait, its from Russia, its OK then. /s

What this means is in the that long term Europe has a reason to look at energy independence and reducing Russian energy imports. Germany is already looking at this. China and India are working toward greater energy independence, so there is limited growth room for Russian exports there. Short term, this winter is going to hurt. Long term, it will hurt Russia more.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Seller's market. Sucks to be EU.

[lightman]

Enjoy the santion—imonious suck!

[kiryandil]

I saw a gas station that had regular unleaded for 3.75 a gallon, but it had sanctions on it.

The one across the street had it for 33.75 for regular - but there were no sanctions, and they were flying a Ukrainian flag, too!

After I put in a half a gallon, I had a warm feeling, which continued when I had to get out and push my car the last quarter-mile home, after I ran out of gas on the way there.