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Some 'your' countries are not. Don't full yourself.Who are 'you'?dont worry about our energy supply, we do perfectly without aggressive MuscovyMaybe because the only sanctions that will indeed hurt Russia are the ones which affect its oil and gas exports. Considering that Russia is one of the main suppliers of Europe, it may cause severe energy and economic crises in Europe, which can affect other parts of the world.So to summarize. The Russians are doing to us in Afghanistan what we did to them in Afghanistan.
Why hasn't Donald Trump imposed massive economic sanctions on Russia for this? Why hasn't Trump imposed ANY of the sanctions on Russia that he has publically announced? Why does Trump call Putin every time something happens, like his acquittal in the Senate?
Enquiring minds want to know?
Consider also retaliation actions. Look at Syria as example.
Competition, sanctions and the new geopolitics of Russian gas
www.economist.com › 2020/01/23 › competition-sancti...
Jan 23, 2020 - Rising Russian supply puts Europe's energy policy to the test. ... Russia to Germany, required pipe-laying companies to wind down activities by ...
Russian Gas Flow To Europe Drops As Poland Transit Deal ...
oilprice.com › Latest Energy News
May 26, 2020 - The flow of natural gas from Russia to Europe via the Yamal-Europe pipeline crossing Poland ... Putin To Bail Out Russian Oil Industry. Join the ...
Is The U.S. Using Sanctions To Elbow Russia Out Of The ...
www.forbes.com › sites › kensilverstein › 2020/05/04
May 4, 2020 - The U.S. wants to win new natural gas markets in Europe -- a market ... Using Sanctions To Elbow Russia Out Of The European Natural Gas ...
western civilization .
Oil prices have fallen to the lowest since 1991 level . With cost of “black gold” at 15-23 dollars per barrel, the USSR economy collapsed, and the sovok itself collapsed, and the "golden" horde ("russia") budget can only be fulfilled only with oil price at $ 42.4 and higher.
The American shale revolution has transformed the global gas market dynamics
Since mid-2019, quite a lot of US LNG has been coming ashore in the EU because US supply has been growing fast (as a result of investment decisions taken earlier this decade), Chinese GDP growth has been lower than expected, and other emerging markets have gradually become saturated. In sum, the EU has been a ‘market of last resort’ for US LNG in the last months.
This is actually a good position to be in for the EU, because it entails that the global market is oversupplied and prices are low. US LNG and Russian gas, which also became more flexible and market-priced as a result of new EU rules and contract renegotiations since 2009-2010, compete head to head in the EU. In other words, Russia is a price-taker. Even if it sells very large volumes to the EU, it cannot manipulate the market. The moment Gazprom were to try and play ‘value-over-volume’ strategies (i.e. deliberately withhold supply to boost prices), its molecules would be quickly replaced by others. Not only would Gazprom fail to boost prices, but it would also lose market share.
Russia supplies gas to Turkey, one of its key customers, via the TurkStream and Blue Stream undersea pipelines which have a total capacity of 32 billion cubic metres (bcm) per year.
Gazprom sales to Turkey fell by 35% to 15.5 bcm last year, or half of the pipelines’ capacity. Gazprom planned maintenance at Blue Stream for May 13-19 but a Turkish official told Reuters