But from what I'm reading this pipeline wasn't supposed to be active until the summer anyway. So this announcement has no immediate impact.Retaliatory sanctions. They are already supplying Germany with oil. The pipeline would have made it cheaper by bypassing Ukraine taxes.
This is why I have trouble with people selling this as a purely Russian instigation.Spicy. They must have been to my class on trolling Putin
Putin better invade, they’ve left him no choice with their spicy memes!By theCIAU.S. government.
I knew you'd come around.Putin better invade, they’ve left him no choice with their spicy memes!
It doesn't, I don't think. You're right. But they aren't going to recoup their investment on the pipeline any time soon. It's owned by Russia, not a private company. Probably a drop in the bucket, but if they were banking on the pipeline, which I'm sure they were or it wouldn't have been built, then not only is the pipeline a waste of money, but they are also being screwed out of future tax and logistics savings. Also, it's the first of many sanctions to come.But from what I'm reading this pipeline wasn't supposed to be active until the summer anyway. So this announcement has no immediate impact.
This Reuters article is from a couple months ago...
Nord Stream 2 won't go live in first half of 2022, German regulator warns
The German energy regulator's eagerly-awaited decision on fully certifying the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline won't come in the first half of next year, it said on Thursday, in a setback for the Russian project that has sparked global political tensions.www.reuters.com
False flag meme. That was the Russians. 4dReally, the Russians should be trolling back.
What's the point here
False flag meme. That was the Russians. 4d
This is why I have trouble with people selling this as a purely Russian instigation.
Really, the Russians should be trolling back.
U.S. embassy in Kiev not Ukrainian embassy in Washington...Russia -- We have a right to invade, Ukraine since it's really ours anyway.
Ukraine embassy - yo bros, here's quick evidence to the contrary that we've existed before you did and you don't own us.
@BeardOfKnowledge - Russia is being attacked!
This post, hilariously, is whataboutism.Wtf do you call the unbadged troops being referenced as just "little green men". What prep as "just a training exercises" etc.
All of Russian geopolitics runs on whataboutism and trolling. It's been effective.
Wtf do you call the unbadged troops being referenced as just "little green men". What prep as "just a training exercises" etc.
All of Russian geopolitics runs on whataboutism and trolling. It's been effective.
U.S. embassy in Kiev not Ukrainian embassy in Washington...
That's the CIA trolling Russia.
I saw that! Good start and I'm glad Germany decided to nut up, but yes, I think Russia anticipated this; NordStream 2 has been a political hot potato for a long time. They're in demographic collapse and probably figure (correctly) it's now or never.They already got the Sevastopol port, that's Crimea they annexed in 2014. I fear what they want is to restore parts of the Soviet Union back. Overrun Ukraine and then have Belarus join with them....to what end I don't know. Because it's a really dumb move economically and will isolate them even more from rest of the world. But who knows what's going through a former KGB officers head. What I was reading about Putin is about his work in counter intelligence, specifically counter intelligence, or looking for double agents in their own ranks, which made him super paranoid, so he mistrusts everyone around, especially the west. That would explain his policies to some degree, and the kind of government he built, made up close childhood friends and nepotism.
Unless they are throwing all their chips on the table, like you said with Taiwan too. Putin and Xi both, two autocrats would decide to go it alone and just do whatever they want and turn their back on the west. Can they do this economically? I hope not.
Good thing happened today is Germany halted the gas pipeline. Hopefully NATO will take a harder line too and come up with a united defensive response.
Playing "catch-up" on that drilling...north America is sitting on a ton of it.
i got your oil right here palPlaying "catch-up" on that drilling...
January 2021:
Biden administration pauses federal drilling program in climate push
U.S. President Joe Biden's administration has temporarily suspended oil and gas permitting on federal lands and waters in the latest of a series of rapid-fire orders aimed at fighting climate change and tamping down the U.S. fossil fuel industry.www.reuters.com
August 2021:
Biden administration to resume drilling auctions in setback to climate agenda
The Biden administration announced plans on Tuesday to open millions of acres for oil and gas exploration as the White House sought to comply with a court order requiring it to resume lease auctions.www.reuters.com
Febrauary 2022:
As oil nears $100 a barrel, U.S. drillers get busy in costly shale basins
As U.S. oil rises toward $100 a barrel, producers in some high-cost shale basins are buying properties and adding rigs and frack crews in places that fell silent when prices crashed early in the pandemic two years ago.www.reuters.com
Biden must have a yuge dick, because he keeps stepping on it.