It would give Russia control of the oil and gas pipelines into Europe. Among other issues, it would make stopping the nord2 an irrelevant bargaining tool.
Yes but there are various other pipelines competing for that pleasure. They threw in with an Iranian pipeline a long time ago so they could form OPEC Jr. That way the competition isn't really competing. Controlling Ukraine and Ukrainian pipelines works toward solidifying that control by blocking other pipelines from the south.
Check the links provided to Bidenlikesminers comment.
Genie energy returns 873 captures from their website on wayback machine, so I'm sure there's something there; at least about their securities board.
Unfortunately lots has been scrubbed. I used to have a whole file on this stuff circa like 2015, but windows 10 killed that computer and I lost it all.
It would give Russia control of the oil and gas pipelines into Europe. Among other issues, it would make stopping the nord2 an irrelevant bargaining tool.
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Russia already controls the oil and gas going into Europe, Europe buys a lot of it from him.
Yes but there are various other pipelines competing for that pleasure. They threw in with an Iranian pipeline a long time ago so they could form OPEC Jr. That way the competition isn't really competing. Controlling Ukraine and Ukrainian pipelines works toward solidifying that control by blocking other pipelines from the south.
Check the links provided to Bidenlikesminers comment.
.old link plz?
Starts discussing pipelines about halfway through, although as I recall, it's a very interesting write up.
Discusses various pipelines and competing national interests; Russia specifically, again at about half way down.
Genie energy returns 873 captures from their website on wayback machine, so I'm sure there's something there; at least about their securities board.
Unfortunately lots has been scrubbed. I used to have a whole file on this stuff circa like 2015, but windows 10 killed that computer and I lost it all.