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No, Russia did not remain a stable producer and it wasn't the West's "sanctions and sabotage" that did the real damage. Russia turned off the taps, plain and si
by makomk 4y ago
No, Russia did not remain a stable producer and it wasn't the West's "sanctions and sabotage" that did the real damage. Russia turned off the taps, plain and simple - in fact they started turning down exports and draining Europe's gas storage the autumn before. In some cases they may have made excuses about how sanctions meant they couldn't get the parts to operate their gas pipelines, but those excuses were bullshit, loosening the sanctions to give them what they supposedly needed just caused them to give more and increasingly bogus reasons for not supplying gas, and often they didn't even bother with that.
- pphysch 4y ago[flagged]
- bluGill 4y agoBecause Russia saw what was coming and Europe's efforts to mitigate sanctions that were coming but not yet in effect. Europe was trying to buy as much gas as they could before the sanctions went into place, so by stopping early Russia had a better change of the sanctions hurting Europe enough that they stopped them. Between the warm winter and the other mitigations Europe did there was no problem and Europe didn't hurt too much, but that was the goal.
- pphysch 4y ago[flagged]