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The gas hike is mostly the outcome of Putin's squeeze onto Western Europe to adopt NS2 on his terms.

Many companies have confirmed that Gazprom actually adheres to the existing contracts and prices. Gazprom is not, however, offering short-term sales at the currently negotiated long-term prices; in other words, Gazprom is not selling gas over the counter at 1/5 the market rate.

This seems to me like one of these opportunities where some EU gov'ts are blaming Russia for something in a way that doesn't make too much sense once you look at it for more than five seconds, yet sounds superficially convincing. Things like that are always unfortunate when you could leverage more substantial criticism instead; hardly a tall order with Russia.

See e.g. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-gazprom-feel...

This is a piece from TASS, written by two Russians. The golden rule of reading TASS bulletins applies now just as it did in the 20th century.

https://www.reuters.com/article/rpb-tass-connect-idUSKBN2381...

The facts are: Russia cuts off transit via Ukraine in advance of the winter to force commissioning of Baltic Sea pipeline. It's everything that East Europeans were telling the outcome of NS2 deal is going to be, but what do these jaded people know, right.

Who would of thought? Didn't some US Administration hint at this, that Russia would leverage the pipe to fuck Europe? Unfortunately the current US Administration actually gave Putin the green light to fuck the Euro poors, sad.....

Clown world....

I can think of 2 instances where Trump publicly questioned EU members' reliance on Russian energy. Once when he visited Poland and then later at a G7 summit.

Yeah, that was what I was referring to. Trump was correct, Russia will fuck the Euro Poors like it is doing now.

Biden who has dementia has no plan and basically gave Putin the green light.

You mean the US actively tries to prevent NS2? As in sanctioning companies working on it?

I just submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28828492

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