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They started the incredibly expensive and wasteful Paks II nuclear plant extension program financed by Russian loans to diversify the EU faucet. (Although that
by abiro 5y ago
They started the incredibly expensive and wasteful Paks II nuclear plant extension program financed by Russian loans to diversify the EU faucet. (Although that deals seems to be collapsing now with the war).
- eptcyka 5y agoPart of Russia's MO in it's former soviet sattelites is to give them cheap loans to increase their influence in those territories.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoAnd now we discovered they used similar tactics for the whole Europe: we sell you cheap gas so that you develop total dependence on us and disregard supply chain diversification as it makes no economic sense... until it's too late.
- eptcyka 5y agoIf Russia wasn't a dictatorship, it'd be normal to be reliant on your neighbors, as this usually helps with keeping peace. It doesn't work when the neighbor in question has no intention of remaining peaceful.