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| The West dreams of the defeat of Russia - and its money |
| 2023-05-26 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Sergey Savchuk [RIA] Speaking at the Eurasian Economic Forum, Vladimir Putin, speaking at the Eurasian Economic Forum, very simply and succinctly described the root causes of the unending energy crisis within Europe: “Who is to blame for what happened? Nord Stream 1 was blown up, Nord Stream 2 was not opened. Did we close the Yamal-Europe route through Poland? Poland closed. Two lines of the gas pipeline through Ukraine - Ukraine closed one of them. We didn't do it. By the way, we supply gas to Europe through the second line, but Ukraine, despite calling us an aggressor, safely cashes money for transit. We fulfill all our obligations in full." As if by order, a couple of hours earlier, The Washington Post broke out with a devastatingly scandalous publication, revealing the secret of the Open. It consists in the fact that supposedly unfortunate Ukraine, on the one hand, demands from the collective West to break off any economic ties with Russia and totally abandon any import of Russian energy resources so as not to support the "Russian war machine," and on the other hand, Kiev itself and does not think of declaring war on Moscow or stopping the transit flow of the same resources through its territory, replenishing its own budget. The publication quotes the words of Alexei Chernyshov, one of the top managers of Ukraine's main energy company Naftogaz. The functionary slyly wags, arguing that the country cannot afford to cut off all the main transit routes, as it expects to receive compensation from Russia, and also because some respected partners of Kiev in the European Union depend on Ukrainian transit. Trying to find logic in Chernyshov's words is not worth it. It is not there - there is only verbal manipulation. The situation is anecdotal in that in this case the head of Naftogaz is deceiving not us, but his respected partners. However, no less seasoned crooks and skillful verbiage sit in Brussels, and therefore such statements and a conscious policy at the state level can mislead only a very naive and gullible layman. Before us, the second act of the geopolitical ballet is unfolding, in which piranhas and barracudas, once fattened on a cheap Russian resource base, circle around each other, convincing that a respected partner should voluntarily reduce their diet and eat less. When moving on to the next act, one should expect a sharp cooling of Ukrainian-European friendship, since Brussels in this situation, whatever one may say, turned out to be in the position of a naive fool. Which was deceived and to which absolutely everyone continues to consciously lie - both Washington and Kyiv, which swears in a historical community. Let us just recall that according to the results of 2021, which today seems like a distant era of the past, Russia supplied the EU countries with 203 billion cubic meters of natural gas, or 40 percent of total imports. 540 million tons of oil and products of its processing were supplied. Coal deliveries added another 53 million tons to this basket, while imports of hated solid fossil fuels steadily gained more and more volumes, increasing by ten percent compared to 2020 at once. Scrupulously counting every cent and gallon, the Americans calculated that by the end of 2021, the countries of the eurozone paid Russian suppliers $147.8 billion for the supply of these three basic energy resources. For comparison, let us recall that the share of European investments in the construction of Nord Stream 2 was only six billion. As the saying goes, By the end of 2022, Berlin, as the control cabin of the main economic locomotive of the EU, admits that the country is suffering huge losses due to the rejection of Russian energy resources. Minister Robert Habek, who at first gleefully urged his fellow citizens to take cool showers and no more than two or three minutes at a time, now requires generators not to raise retail electricity prices and threatens to impose additional taxes on the excess profits already received by operators. Paris, due to systemic problems in the nuclear industry, for the first time in recent history, stopped exporting and began to buy electricity from its neighbors. Warsaw admitted that it has a net loss of $28 million just on purchasing crude oil from third-party suppliers. Every day. The British media publish alarmist articles and tremble at the terrible thought that Russia, in retaliation for the Nord Stream explosion, could cut two cables at the bottom of the English Channel, which is guaranteed to lead to the collapse of the energy and economy. And then Ukraine climbs onto the stage with the tragic face of a professional victim, begging with one hand for another tranche of money, tanks and planes, and with the other - slowly unscrewing the valve on the gas and oil pipe coming from the north. To earn a couple of billion dollars also on pumping, and who doesn’t know: the buyer pays for transit, that is, all the same Europe. It remains to find out what is the threshold of financial and economic strength in the Old World and how soon gentlemen will remember the usual methods of doing business, that is, robbery of their neighbor. Geopolitics, mixed with big money, is an extremely entertaining thing, most of all reminiscent of a jar of spiders. It is interesting to watch them, especially if you are on the other side of the glass. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Really looking forward to those low salaries and crummy food and housing. |
| Posted by: Enver Slager8035 2023-05-26 23:01 |
| #1 Russia: "We're the victims here!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-05-26 12:20 |