Financial Times- Russia switches off Europe’s main gas pipeline until sanctions are lifted
Russia’s gas supplies to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline will not resume in full until the “collective west” lifts sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin has said.
Dmitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, blamed EU, UK and Canadian sanctions for Russia’s failure to deliver gas through the key pipeline, which delivers gas to Germany from St Petersburg via the Baltic sea.
Then there’s OPEC…
ZeroHedge- Oil Surges After OPEC+ Agrees On 100Kb/d Production Cut

It’d be far more prudent to close these down to save the infrastructure as current chaos could emboldened individuals to sabotage and generate a major incident.
The long game is on Russia’s side and they could be used later…possibly in the spring…
Biden’s gang greens are salivating. “You mean Putin won’t restore gas until sanctions are lifted? This is a won’t opportunity for Europe to go fully green.”
I’ve seen opinions that sanctions are, or are not, hurting Russia.
Is this latest move by Putin an acknowledgment that sanctions are hurting?
Or is Putin trying to drive wedges between European countries and Biden’s America?
Thoughts?
Russia is a MASSIVE COUNTRY that covers a huge amount of property that they surround other countries…
They’ve truly diversified much away from any real damage that the Western Alliances have including Europe.
https://thesaker.is/us-economic-decline-and-global-instability-part-2-rise-of-brics/
This situation is on their doorstep which is easy to control and supply compared with west which is totally disorganized.
The Afghanistan pull out was a huge clue to how much of a decline the United States is in now.
Russia is even bigger than Canada.
Toronto is even bigger than Canada.
John, let’s do one more. Trudeau is bigger than Canada.
Either way, Russia still has an enormous card to play and the foolhardy Europeans know it.
They relied on Russia for all of their energy concerns and then declared war on it for a country they don’t care about.
I’ll bet Polish gas will be quite the ticket soon.
Winter is coming. Russia has gas, so they will keep their lights and heat on. Europe does not have gas. They are risking freezing in the dark.
This is Russia, holding three Aces, calling Europe, holding a pair of fives.
Step 1: Increase sanctions.
Step 2: Open all taps on U.S. oil and gas production.
Step 3: Drive the price of oil and gas down to bargain basement levels for the next 10-12 years and crush OPEC once and for all. Destabilize their economies to generate civil unrest and stop supporting their militaries. Let the house of Saud burn.
hahahahahaha,
Maybe the idiots in Europe should start fracking.
Haha …this war has become surreal and it’s starting to develop a humorous edge.
I dunno, I think the Ruskies have this in the bag. The western world had better butt-out of this now, or we may go down with Ukraine and the EU and that will not be good.
However, I hope to find a bit of comedic irony in the results.
Sanctions applied to a nation that is an exporter of food and energy to a market we can’t control (India, China, and the ME) by nations importing energy (or at war with energy and agriculture)…… Let me think… Yah, what could go wrong?
Can anyone disprove my hypothesis that whatever side of every issue the Spawn-Fuhrer is on is wrong?
I think you are spot on John.
Is it any wonder the Brits bailed on the EU?
To modify Ralph Klein: “Let the European bastards freeze in the dark!” (‘specially Greta)
but, but, turbines?
Indeed.
Sounds like a war declaration.
Oh well
Trump warned the Germans and they laughed.
The UK shut down the peace talks in April.
The people will continue to get forked until the Ukraine s**t is settled the right way.
But the Russians said the sanctions did not affect them …why would they care if they are removed or not?
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