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“....A lot of European politicians were upset about perceived profiteering by U.S. oil and gas companies during the energy crisis,” said Paddy Ryan, assistant director for European energy security at the Atlantic Council. “So getting rid of a competitor to the U.S. is something they’d be loath to do.’”
Russian revenues from their exports have been way up since the beginning of this fiasco. This is obvious despite all the under the table transactions designed to hide this fact. If you look at Russian consumer spending... this bounty is being passed down to them, and keeping Putin’s approval numbers up.