Posted on 01/03/2025 5:07:49 AM PST by blueplum
(Reuters) -The cut-off of Russian gas supplies to Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region has forced the closure of all industrial companies except food producers, an official said on Thursday....The local energy company cut heating and hot water to households on Wednesday, and urged families to keep warm by gathering in a single room...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has described the end of Russian gas transit as "one of Moscow's biggest defeats" and urged the United States to supply more gas to Europe....
Maria Zakharova said the loss of Russian gas was hurting Europe economically, and the U.S. was the beneficiary.
"Responsibility for the cessation of Russian gas supplies lies entirely with the United States, the puppet Kyiv regime, as well as the authorities of European states...
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
related: from The Telegraph UK via msn
"Ukraine has “clearly made a calculation here that they need to inflict as much pain on the Russians as they can”, regardless of any backlash, says John Lough, a Russia expert and associate fellow at Chatham House."
‘We’re in the end game’: Why Kyiv’s blow to Russian gas threatens a European energy war
Drill baby drill
Syria is now open to the pipeline from the Gulf to gat gas to Europe.
Russia was in Syria to insure the pipeline would never be built
Great news. I am from oil and gas country.
They are going to pay for it? Not American tax payers?
Wait a minute. Wasn’t this supposed to have happened when the war first started and the Nordstream pipelines were shut down? Then Europe adjusted and had a mild winter and everything was okay. Now we find out they were getting gas from Russia all along and it’s a new crisis? I guess I just can’t keep up.
Ukraine made a billion annually from fees charged for the use of their lines by the EU countries.
And we created ISIS to ensure it would be built and controlled by the Sunnis. They thanked us on Bourbon Street the other day.
I’m no expert, but to be sure the russians thought through this possibility. What will be their response? Are the gas pumping stations in Ukraine, (now pumping gas from where?) a fair target?
Because that’s a lot harder to repair than transformers, and leaves the Ukrainians burning furniture.
Ukraine, knowing their funding is getting cut once Trump takes office, is going nuclear. Spreading as much pain and misery as they can to try to change minds.
More than likely, this will backfire on them. Ever since the war started, the living conditions for every single European country has gone down, and costs have gone up in support of Ukraine.
This will make things worse for all of them sparking a backlash most likely.
bert wrote: “Russia was in Syria to insure the pipeline would never be built”
“The Russia” wasn’t the only one meddling in that area.
Proposed EastMed gas pipeline is not viable - U.S. diplomat
Reuters
https://www.reuters.com › article › business › energy
Apr 7, 2022 — ... pipeline taking east Mediterranean gas to the continent via Israel, Cyprus and Greece is not viable, a senior U.S. diplomat [”Cookies” Nuland] said.
Now, the StupeUkies will expect us American taxpayers to cough up that billion.
The Ukrainians were stealing natural gas for themselves from the stream flowing to Europe.
Now that ceases - and once it becomes clear that the Ukies won't allow it to be re-opened, the pipeline infrastructure becomes fair game for the Russian missiles and drones.
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