Re: Yall remember when Biden waived the sanctions on the Nord Stream pipeline

championsof81 · 2025-02-13T17:25:49.041Z

Man that was dumb Here’s a trip back in history…. Sad story In a stroke of the pen, he set Ukraine’s fate https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57180674.amp

All after the war and after the gave Russia all the leverage

And for the record, it was Russia that cut off gas supplies to Europe. You act as if Europe in some noble cause decided to abstain from Russian gas on their own accord. Was that your understanding?

Here is the complete picture for your education:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/europes-messy-russian-gas-divorce/

How hard did Germany press Putin before the invasion? is the question you should be asking

Why didn’t they push harder? You should ask

Why did Biden cave and hand the last bit of leverage to Russia? You might ask…

Or you could satisfy your self by rationalizing this cluster by simply saying “well Europe imports gas from the US and has Nuclear power plants”

No thought given to the fact that all the gas from the US comes on LNG boats and greatly higher expense and that 18 of Europe’s nuclear reactors or Russian and that Russia was their largest supplier of nuclear fuel…

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Re: Handing Russia total control of Europes energy supply

Feb 13, 2025, 1:51 PM [ in reply to Re: Handing Russia total control of Europes energy supply ]

You are confusing the availability of gas vs the cost of gas.

The ‘8nevitability’ of Nordstream gas (cheapest mode by which gas was to reach Germany) led to non-Nordstream suppliers to reduce their prices of gas to be sold to Germany. These other gas suppliers were not just going to walk away en masse from the (very big) German market.

When Nordstream was blown up, the prospects of a return of low cost gas via that supply source disappeared. Germany then had to quickly make new contracts with their non-Nordstream suppliers for additional gas supplies. Germany got enough ‘new sourced’ gas to function, but that ‘new sourced’ gas was much more expensive. It was the high cost of the ‘non-Nordstream’ gas that torpedoed their 3conomy.

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Biden Handlers Admin didn’t think through the geopolitical risks of, in effect, making Germany dependent on Russian gas. Biden Handlers Admin was blinded by the combination of environmental-nut constituents + green energy scammers (crony capitalist partners of the Democrats) … short term political blindness. Thus, the door was left wide open for Putin to adopt an acquisitive foreign policy re Ukraine relationship.

It was this predilection for policies driven by short term political considerations that led to the categorical failure of the Biden Handlers Administration’s foreign policies.

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Yall remember when Biden waived the sanctions on the Nord Stream pipeline

Handing Russia total control of Europes energy supply

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Re: Yall remember when Biden waived the sanctions on the Nord Stream pipeline

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