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yeah, in other words, Europe's industry has profited awesomely from 40+ years (many decades) of steady, super-reliable, cheap (wholesale pipeline prices) Russia
by twelve40 4y ago
yeah, in other words, Europe's industry has profited awesomely from 40+ years (many decades) of steady, super-reliable, cheap (wholesale pipeline prices) Russian gas, and now, 40 years into it, after attempting to crush ruble into rubble (good friend+ally Biden quote) something went unexpectedly wrong. Maybe all that cheap-gas-based industry was not very competitive in the first place?
- yrro 4y agoI hope you don't mean to imply that "Europe" unilaterally decided to "crush ruble into rubble" for shits and giggles?
- Vibgyor5 4y agoNo, it just decided to follow into its Atlantic ally's footsteps without having the clout to weather the economic damage
- giggles_01 4y agoSurely the better way was to wait silently for tanks first in Moldova, then later in Baltic states and Poland, then Berlin (it was in DDR after all) + huge wave of refugees + more death and torture first on your doorsteps and then in your house. Russia is such a peaceful nation after all, it is all those NATO warmongers who made it rape children in Ukraine.