Alexander Mercouris
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Furious Putin Slams EU Policies for Creating Gas Crisis, Signals End of Ukraine Gas Transit
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Meeting on development of the energy industry
Meeting on development of the energy industry
Vladimir Putin conducted a meeting on the development of the energy industry via videoconference.
Russia is taking advantage of the energy squeeze
Europe should step up efforts to diversify sources and suppliers
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GOOD
Absolutely. How much complete and unadulerated nonstop bull is any one person supposed to tolerate?
Just a quick & dirty note: What spot market refers to is immediate delivery (from reserves etc). What the reference to short term contracts is has to include, in fact mostly is, the futures market, which are contracts 1,2,3 up to 12 months or so out (whatever the exchange max. is). The rationale for futures contracts is that it allows a buyer or seller to hedge, by locking in a price months out, as it suits them. The problem is that when price volatility increases, so does major speculator interest, which can seriously distort prices. That’s what’s causing much of… Read more »
The EU’s ‘Third Energy Package‘ Scam, mainly pushed by russophobe forces within the EU, is/was in essence a scam/plot/scheme to sabotage NS1+NS2 projects or any other project with Russia to ensure that some Globalist + Transatlantic Forces try to retain a stranglehold on EU energy supplies. It’s purely geopolitical + ideological even if it causes damage to their economies because the culprits are ideological possessed fanatics. That the whole scam totaly blow-up in their faces is for them just collateral damage, the price hikes at the ‘Spot Markets’ are the results and countries + their consumers like the UK are… Read more »
If I was running Russia I would make the charges of RUSSIA holding back on gas a reality by pulling the plug on all the gas in transit right now.
What would happen to the contracts that Russia has been honoring the whole time, as Merkel herself has said? Would those get rubbished?
http://euro-synergies.hautetfort.com/archive/2021/10/09/crise-energetique-europeenne-due-a-l-interruption-de-l-approvisionnement-en.html
I ‘remember the Chamberlain’s treatment, in part driven by British E X P E R T S – ha ha!
Those who forget Lindy will pay the highest price. The BOSS DOES NOT forget!
The cowards in the EU and Britain have not got the guts to defy America so their ordinary people will be paying more for their gas. But the media throughout Europe are just a bunch of Putin haters and their readers are just plebs.