Topic: Russian Gas ban - A problem for Europe or suicide for Russia? - page 49. (Read 14113 times)

Not anymore. The European Union introduced an embargo on coal imports from Russia in the fifth package of sanctions adopted in early April (with a four-month delay for its implementation).

The Texas Energy Plant explosion is another disaster for Europe in series of events to put even more pressure on EU energy sector considering that 80% of this plant's LNG supply was going to EU and it was shut off and the production in the future due to damage is going to be significantly reduced.

We keep talking about gas and its price but I think we should also start talking about coal price since more EU countries are moving towards using coal instead!!! So far 3 of them (Germany, Austria, Netherlands) have started using coal. Others are also planning on using it soon.
Interestingly enough a considerable part of their coal is also imported from Russia!

Dominance of Gazprom in the German gas market didn't started with former chancellor Gerhard Schröder. It started in 1969, when Christian Democratic Union was kicked out of power in FRG (1969) and Willy Brandt of the Social Democratic Party became the chancellor. The meeting between Willy Brandt and Willi Stoph in 1970 can be said as the official start of Ostpolitik, in which (West) Germany started a mutually beneficial economic relationship with the Soviets. The successors to Brandt and Stoph (Helmut Schmidt and Erich Honecker) continued with the same policies. It is laughable that now a lot of people claim that Schröder was the one who came up with this policy.

Have you tried to figure out the reasons, and not very hidden ones, for such a monopolization of German industry by Russian gas? It's just that Finland and Lithuania did not sell their energy security for the benefit of some politicians... And Germany, with their Schroeder and the like, went on about the terrorists. Moreover, there is a fact, even before a new round of aggression against Ukraine, when Russia, simply to "pacify" discontent in the German government, simply turned off, indicatively, the gas supply, violating all agreements. Do you remember this event??

Finland is a developed country with good finances. They share borders with other European countries such as Sweden and it is very much possible to get supplies from Sweden or Norway. That is not the case with Lithuania. The economy is stagnant, and the total population has gone down by almost 40% in the last three decades. On top of that, Lithuania is surrounded by Russia and Belarus from three sides. Their army don't have any real combat experience (unlike the case with Finland) and are entirely dependent on NATO.

Meanwhile, Germany has activated the second phase of the emergency plan amid cuts in gas supplies from Russia. The country has declared a gas shortage and a gas crisis.

This oil game has done a lot of damage to the world already - the regime change in Iran and than destroying their economy - this is on record done by USA. Now USA is also playing an important role to destabilize Russia - but Russia is not Iran they have strong defence and they will fight back.

I think one of my biggest surprises in this whole conflict between Russia and the Ukriane..was that India was so willing to throw the West under the bus.    They buy Russian Oil...refine it...and then sell it back to Europe. 

This action goes blatantly against the sanctions that are imposed against Russia and the rest of the world is simply ignoring it. It just shows how important "money" has become to the world. (The countries in Europe that are buying refined Oil from India, is just as guilty as China for doing this) 

If each country is focused on solving only its own internal problems, and not on protecting the common values ​​of human civilization, then invaders like Putin will seize such countries in turn and beat them one by one. Then each such country will have more problems, or they will not have any problems at all, because such a state will no longer exist. The current war and the Russian attack on Ukraine became possible precisely because the world community did not react properly to Russia's zahaat of part of the territory of Ukraine in 2014 and only expressed its "deep concern" for the hundredth time. Therefore, Putin decided that everything is allowed to him and that he can solve any problems with other states by force. It is now obvious that after conquering Ukraine, Putin would have invaded Moldova, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. And after that, it is quite possible that his appetites increased. You probably think that you live far from Russia and this will not affect you?

Good job by these two but you can't really attribute it to "honor and conscience".
Just a comparison between Lithuania and Finland with most European countries like Germany shows that these two tiny countries have small population (2 and 5 million compared to 85 million) and don't have that many serious industries to need that much energy namely gas. They were also already working on importing energy from elsewhere before the war even began.

For example according to worldometers, Lithuania is ranked 116th in energy consumption while Germany is 7th. Or for example the amount of energy Lithuania imported from Russia is so small that it is negligible when compared to Germany.

Finland has already found an alternative to Russian gas - "On Friday, the Finnish network operator Gasgrid Finland and the American company Excelerate Energy signed an agreement to lease a floating LNG terminal for ten years.
"We have carefully prepared for this situation," Viljanen said, "there will be no interruptions in the gas transmission network."
And this is a loss of a buyer FOREVER for a Russian manufacturer.

And this is what countries that have honor and conscience do:
Lithuania has stopped importing Russian electricity since May 22, Lithuanian operator of the electricity transmission system Litgrid said. In early April, Lithuania was the first in the EU to completely abandon Russian gas.
There will be no Russian oil there either. "We cannot allow the Russian military machine to be funded with our money," Energy Minister Dainius Kreivis said.

And nothing - they found an alternative, stopped financing terrorists, and forever broke the dependence, which could become a point of terror for Lithuania.

Yes, I also think that it is not good to involve many countries in a alien conflict. Each country should focus on its own problems, each country has many of these problems. We will suffer from the wrong decisions of leaders. Why should I rarely bathe or heat the stove in my house? Why can't I turn on the air conditioner in hot weather? Why does someone decide these questions for me?

Germany has 6 nuclear power plants, 3 of them are still running. They were planning to shut down those 3 that are left, but due to war conflict among Russia and Ukraine decided to extend the usage of those 3. In addition, government left an open question of restarting usage of those 3 nuclear power plants that were shut down. This decision greatly come across German plan of green energy and complete refusal of petrol and diesel engine car usage from, if not mistaken, 2035.

It looks like Europe is slowly but surely going back to the dark ages
It won't be just because of energy crisis but the inflation. As everyone is now going to be tighten their belts to cover food cost and utility bills the EU economy is going to continue to shrink. Then they are increasing their military budget in all this chaos! I wonder what countries like Germany are going to do when it starts getting cold again specially with their $100 billion wasted moneys on their useless militaries.

Don't think that they will go back to Russia for gas/oil supplies. They can't do that, after making all those big announcements and threats. At the most, they will import Russian oil in the form of refined products, from countries such as Turkey and India. In case of natural gas, it is even more complicated. Natural gas can't be refined and then re-exported. So if the EU needs Russian gas, then they need to purchase it directly. Either from the Gazprom, or from the Yamal LNG project (which is under the ownership of Novatek).

It is not as easy to close the deals with Russia and start over all the new projects. Finland is totally dependent on Russia for their oil and gas supply.
So is EU for 40% of their oil and gas supply. Do you think it is as easy to switch to alternative? Not at all!
They will return to Russia - for sure!

Ursula von der Leyen came up with a brilliant idea, to reduce the thermostat for room heating by two degrees. According to her, it will enable the Germans to save a lot of "valuable" natural gas. If that is the case, my question to Führerin von der Leyen is why can't the room heating be completely turned off? Gas supply to the industrial facilities can be stopped as well. Then EU may not need Russian gas anymore. Meanwhile, the European gas prices are now stabilizing at $1,200-$1,300 per thousand cubic meters, after the spike caused as a result of reduced flows to Nord Stream.

Tell me - do you honestly believe that the United States wanted to destroy Russia? I'll ask a question, and while you try to give a LOGICAL explanation, I'll give you a couple of facts, and you attach them to your answer, and tell me, does everything together look logical?
So the question is: Do you really think that the US wants to destroy Russia or take it over? If the answer is "yes" - then I ask for a logical explanation?
And a couple of facts:
The United States, in its history, Tsarist Russia (Muscovy), the USSR, and then modern Russia - many times. Moreover, at some points, the United States could simply buy out all the assets of Russia for mere pennies, and in fact become the owner of Russia. But they never did this, and continued to provide free assistance.
Such events were:
- The salvation of "great" Russia in 1891-1892, then the American mission of the ARA (ARA - American Relief Administration) fed millions of Russians
- Then there was the period of the "great" RSFSR. And in 1921-1922, millions of starving Russians were again fed. And again for free!
- During the Second World War, which in 1939, along with Nazi Germany, Russia unleashed, the Americans provided gratuitous food aid to the USSR, and also saved the Red Army from defeat, with supplies through Lendlis. Which the USSR never paid in full ...
- Quite recently, in the 1990s, when another "great Russia" was AGAIN starving and falling apart, America did not buy everything in the bud (then Russia sold anything, just not to swell with hunger from "greatness"), but once again gratuitously fed and warmed Russia! A significant part of the food supply was carried out by NATO aircraft!
And all this time Russia is squealing and trying to bite the US, accusing them of encroaching on "its own resources" that do not belong to Russia and its citizens, but only to a bunch of Putin's kleptomaniacs.

Lol. It's pretty evident that you hate USA and I can understand why, but stop acting like whatever crap you posted are facts because they obviously aren't.

Venice of Asia? More nonsense. You came up with that on your own.

Anyone with a half-decent brain knows that the USA is far stronger than Russia even back when they were the USSR which is why they are trying hard to build closer ties to India and China so that they could build an alliance against the USA.

Meanwhile, Europe is drawing up emergency plans to switch back to coal after Russia cuts natural-gas supplies.