Quote from: Smack That Ace on Today at 09:38:57 AM

Quote from: DrBeer on October 20, 2022, 02:42:35 PM

While the Kremlin propagandists and their stooges are screaming and hysterical, trying to intimidate Europe, the reality looks like this:

"It took Europe 8 months to find an alternative to Russian gas," said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
"At first, we assumed that the Russian gas cutoff would last 7 years. Today, the facts are as follows: it took us only 8 months to replace two-thirds of the supply," she said.

And now the most important nuance - the international terrorist country has lost this market FOREVER! And besides selling to countries that don't care about "blood oil" (such as China and India), there are no options left. But there is also a nuance here - China and India are so "friendly to Russia" that they "put Russia on their elbows" and forced them to sell oil at a dumping price.

It can be said that the EU may already have enough gas for this winter, but the EU really found a replacement for Russia in the future, I won't believe what you say. I dare to bet you that they have not been able to find a solution to replace the huge supply from Russia, gas from Norway is not enough for the whole of Europe, LNG from the US has become too expensive and not to mention transportation costs. In 2021, the price of ships carrying LNG will be from 30,000 to 300 thousand USD/day, but now this cost has exceeded 500 thousand/day and may continue to increase. This is seen as a temporary solution because winter has come and EU governments have almost run out of solutions, I believe they will soon find a way to reconnect the gas pipeline to Russia in any case.

The most important thing is that the EU has already completely replaced 2/3 of the gas supplies from the country of the terrorist. Those. not a one-time purchase of the necessary gas somewhere, but globally rebuilt gas supply channels. 1/3 of course still remains, but this is a matter of a fairly short time. Yesterday there was information that back in the summer of 2022, the EU believed that the replacement of gas supplies from Russia would take up to 7 years, but it turned out that they went through this path in a little more than half a year.

Concerning possible problems - I do not exclude. After all, Russia is an international terrorist country, and I do not exclude that they will continue to try to continue both military and economic terrorism against many countries.

Here is an example from Norway:
On Friday, a Norwegian court ordered a 50-year-old Russian citizen to be detained for two weeks after he admitted to flying two drones over the country, potentially over critical energy infrastructure.
In recent weeks, many drone sightings have been recorded near the country's offshore oil and gas platforms." - most likely these are attempts to obtain information about critical energy infrastructure nodes for possible new terrorist attacks.