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Sure, so? Prices are back to pre war levels apparently and gas kept flowing the whole time. It was simply more expensive in the last months.
by hef19898 4y ago
Sure, so? Prices are back to pre war levels apparently and gas kept flowing the whole time. It was simply more expensive in the last months.
- baxtr 4y agoOh yes, sure. But of course the entire switch created a lot of stress, uncertainty, anxiety and so on. It is impossible to measure the real costs of that switching. But I bet they were very high. Having a basis, where one supplier/resource never accounts for more than let's say 20% makes a system much more resilient. I think it is "just" simple math, that was ignored before because it was cheap and easy at the time.
- baxtr 4y agoBtw: it’s even worse than that. The perceived dependency allowed Russia to think that they can get away… they thought they could blackmail the West.