[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!!!

[BenLurkin]

The Russkies sure have a peculiar concept of customer relations.

[lightman]

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

[montag813]

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

[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.

[Karl Spooner]

Heartwarming. But you can't forget this, the Woke EU said they did not want Russian gas and said they could do a workaround. I think all of the EU leaders are going down over this deal. 2 or 3 of them already have, but their replacements are just as dumb.

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[DesertRhino]

That Russian sense of humor, rather dark ... lol.

[Alter Kaker]

Europe has LNG terminals and can buy gas from other suppliers. What the hell is Russia gonna do? Their pipelines point West.

[Kazan]

The EU either ends the sanction war or devolves into chaos and unrest. The regime changes won’t be in Russia but in the countries the countries that implemented it.