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The danger is political risk, not necessarily theft or vandalism. Any dependency on territory not under your own societal control can be used to hold you hostag
by sfifs 10y ago
The danger is political risk, not necessarily theft or vandalism. Any dependency on territory not under your own societal control can be used to hold you hostage and cannot be depended upon.
Forget the solar farm, easiest is to cut power lines. (explosives?)
- lucaspiller 10y agoEurope imports around 30% of its oil and gas from Russia. The pipelines between the east and west were originally setup during Soviet times. Given how stable that has been it seems unlikely that a small African country, who will be getting a big chunk of cash from Europe, would do anything stupid.
- gsnedders 10y agoThey haven't been perfectly stable, though. We've seen since 2005 a few cases of oil and gas prices surging upwards as part of the Russia-Ukraine dispute (in 2005, 80% of all gas from Russia to the EU went through Ukraine).
- ekun 10y agoSo we resolve all regional conflicts and unify the world under one country. It's not hard.
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- theptip 10y agoEurope is currently highly dependent on Russia's natural gas for their electricity; I don't see this as worse. Indeed, better to diversify your power imports. (Better still to generate locally, but not every country has the land available to do so). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_sector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_in_the_European_energy_...