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Russia controlls the valves, and who cares about the contract penalties, when europe is seizing russian assets and blocking russia from eg. swift. With a cold
by ajsnigrutin 4y ago
Russia controlls the valves, and who cares about the contract penalties, when europe is seizing russian assets and blocking russia from eg. swift.
With a cold winter, closed valves on the russian side, high heating bills and stalling german industry, there would be Putin on the other side saying "just remove some of the sanctions, stop sending weapons to ukraine, and we reopen the pipeline immediately", and the only one standing between the failing industry + cold people and cheap gas again would be a few politicians that can be replaced overnight.
- ceejayoz 4y ago> who cares about the contract penalties, when europe is seizing russian assets Gazprom cares; seized assets can be unfrozen later, and penalties would eat into what they get back. > just remove some of the sanctions, stop sending weapons to ukraine, and we reopen the pipeline immediately This line of thinking extends to a lot more than just the US. The UK would be in play; Ukraine would have motive. So would Finland and various others. Even Germany might want to get the pipeline out of the picture to avoid internal pressure to open it. And, again, "it couldn't possibly be us!" gives Russia some significant motive of their own if they think it can make Germany mad at the US.