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Topic
Board Economics
Re: Pay in rubles or have your gas shut off by April
by
be.open
on 11/04/2022, 09:24:21 UTC
Russia supplied this amount of gas to European countries earlier. Now the situation is rapidly changing not in favor of Russia because of the aggressive war unleashed by it and the desire to seize Ukraine. If just a week ago some European states were not ready to impose an embargo on supplies of oil, coal and gas from Russia, then after the publication of those terrible atrocities that the Russian invaders perpetrated against the civilian population in the Kiev region, Europe is almost ready to impose such an embargo even to the detriment of own interests. This is facilitated by the end of the heating season, and the previously proclaimed reorientation to "green" energy from alternative sources as a measure against a sharp climate change. European countries have realized that they need to get rid of their energy dependence on Russia, and therefore Russia will gradually lose its positions in this regard.
Europe has considered Russia an aggressor since at least March 2014, when Crimea was annexed from Ukraine as a result of Operation Polite People. There was a lot of noise in all political circles about this, the European Union, together with the United States, strongly condemned Russia's actions and imposed economic sanctions. Has Europe been able to get rid of, or at least reduce, its dependence on Russian gas in eight years and improve its energy security? The answer is no.