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You realize that that gas didn't evaporate but will be eventually sold to somebody else. Even if for lower prices. Russia doesn't have money issue right now, ra
by saiya-jin 4y ago
You realize that that gas didn't evaporate but will be eventually sold to somebody else. Even if for lower prices. Russia doesn't have money issue right now, rather political/military one. The guy on top with his close circle has few hundreds billions stashed all around the world, he doesn't desperately need to get more immediately.
Your arguments are valid but what baffles me in this topic is why folks try so hard to find completely rational explanations for russian actions now. People with hurt egos do stupid things all the time. Look at the clusterf*k that is Ukraine, how they keep doing stupid things that hurt them on and on.
- rendall 4y agoIf you're saying that "hurt ego" is the motivation, OK, but there are many non-Russian beneficiaries from the action that do not rely on irrationality or weird 4D chess false-flag explanations. Why not consider those first, in turn?
- gitanovic 4y agoBecause Putin is a rational actor, the invasion of Ukraine was a huge miscalculation on his side, he thought it would have been a Blitzkireg, and it became a trench war for which he was not prepared
- sofixa 4y ago> You realize that that gas didn't evaporate but will be eventually sold to somebody else They don't have the infrastructure for that, and if they stop extraction it will be complicated and expensive to restart it later. So they're just burning it: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62652133 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62652133