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Putin Cuts Off Gas Supply To Six European Countries Without Warning
Forbes ^ | 1/18/2015 @ 4:03PM | Paul Gregory

Posted on 01/18/2015 2:50:54 PM PST by dila813

On January 14, Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, to cut back by 60% the natural gas delivered to Europe through Ukraine. His ostensible reason: Ukraine was illegally siphoning off gas for its own use—a charge Ukraine denies. Overall Europe depends on Russia for 30% of its gas supplies, and some 80% of Europe’s Russian natural gas comes via Ukraine. Putin’s order would leave six countries in eastern and southeastern Europe totally without gas.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: badinfo; energy; eu; europe; gazprom; globalists; naturalgas; nwo; presidentforlife; putin; putinstan; russia; sanctions; soros; sorosfrontgroup; ukrainecrisis
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To: ansel12

OMG....It’s because of what your government did with it’s destructive foreign and domestic policies ...

Not what I support..

Get a grip...This is not about me...wowza


61 posted on 01/18/2015 4:12:44 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dila813

By the way, are you wondering why the source link to the Forbes article no longer works?


62 posted on 01/18/2015 4:15:29 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: agere_contra
Putin doesn’t need dollars. He needs Yuan, and he’s signed a huge gas contract with the Chinese to get them. As I understand it Russia doesn’t have enough capacity to supply both Europe and the new Chinese contract anyway. If true, this would mean that Putin *had* to cut back exports to Europe.

So then Putin goes elsewhere(China) to sell gas and Europe goes elsewhere to buy gas.

63 posted on 01/18/2015 4:15:57 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: dragnet2
"OMG....It’s because of what your government did with it’s destructive foreign and domestic policies ... Not what I support.."

I have no idea what that mess of a post was about.

64 posted on 01/18/2015 4:16:15 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: ansel12
It is a little premature for the United States and NATO to surrender to the Russians.

Why not, we surrendered to Mexico, surrendered our sovereignty, all while we totally support Communist countries which we’re now up to our necks in debt to. On and on it goes.

There is no need for America to surrender to Russia, Communist China etc... We’re just giving it away, through decades long reckless domestic and foreign policies, which have looted and decimated the American treasure.

This has been going on for many years and is nothing new.

____________________________________________

And in ansell2 hysterical mind, this somehow means I support the total destruction of America.

Get a grip on reality ansell...Please.

65 posted on 01/18/2015 4:18:18 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dila813

The point here isn’t whether or not there are alternative routes. This gas cut off is a retaliation for sanctions. Surely the EU didn’t really expect that their sanctions would go unanswered.
But maybe they did. They are an arrogant lot.


66 posted on 01/18/2015 4:23:14 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: FreeReign
Sure. Europe should appease Russia.

Russia has those EU countries by the balls. The North sea natural gas already goes to the UK and the Norwegian countries. The others are going to be hurting for certain.

And Putin laughs at Obama.

67 posted on 01/18/2015 4:26:14 PM PST by CptnObvious
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To: ansel12
It is a little premature for the United States and NATO to surrender to the Russians.

The US to surrender to Russia?? Where do you find this in that?

The NATO countries affected will be hurting for certain. I expect them to go groveling to Putin and we will see what kind of pain he extracts from them.

68 posted on 01/18/2015 4:26:14 PM PST by CptnObvious
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To: dragnet2

Seriously, you are just raving now.

Post 17 seems to have unhinged you for some reason.


69 posted on 01/18/2015 4:26:48 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: CptnObvious

We are part of NATO, the dominant part.

As weakened as Russia is today, they still need to be dealt with firmly by NATO.


70 posted on 01/18/2015 4:29:13 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: Eleutheria5

The Israeli gas coming online would be nice. The Europeans might have to temper their historic hostility towards Jews, the west bank “Palestinians”, and Israel a bit.
Id like to see Israel make Europe dance to their tune.

Of course, watching the arrogance they have used for Russia, I have no doubt that they would side with the Palestinians in the UN, support the divest movement, work to arrest and try members of the IDF, and try to supply Gaza with weapons,,,,,all the while demanding Israel never interrupt the flow of gas.


71 posted on 01/18/2015 4:29:19 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: CptnObvious
Russia has those EU countries by the balls. The North sea natural gas already goes to the UK and the Norwegian countries. The others are going to be hurting for certain.

If Russia can sell its gas elsewhere than those other countries can get their gas elsewhere.

And Putin laughs at Obama.

No. Putin high-fives Obama and they both laugh at our country.

72 posted on 01/18/2015 4:32:32 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: dila813

looks like zerohedge got some ‘splaining to do...

zerohedge’s story; takes awhile to scroll down and page over, but the comments call it out...

article refers to events and titles of people that were older than last week...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-14/russia-cuts-ukraine-gas-supply-6-european-countries?page=7

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-14/russia-cuts-ukraine-gas-supply-6-european-countries


73 posted on 01/18/2015 4:39:29 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: dila813

No linky, no workey!


74 posted on 01/18/2015 4:39:48 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: FreeReign

It would be good for us, but imagine the hoops we would have to go through to establish the infrastructure to ship LNG by ship to the EU in the quantities that replace a pipeline.

And LNG by ship is way more dangerous and expensive.
But it would be good for us if we could get the environuts out of the way.


75 posted on 01/18/2015 4:43:35 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: dila813

the Daily Mail article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1106382/Europe-plunged-energy-crisis-Russia-cuts-gas-supply-Ukraine.html

didn’t have a date, but sounded like it was right before winter started... still its earlier than last week.


76 posted on 01/18/2015 4:43:51 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: PghBaldy

see links in #73 and #76


77 posted on 01/18/2015 4:44:46 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: PghBaldy

Likely Forbes pulled the story after they were told that they had the facts wrong. Forbes really isn’t a breaking news-type site and it may have just been a translation error from earlier stories.


78 posted on 01/18/2015 4:46:01 PM PST by hlmencken3 (“I paid for an argument, but you’re just contradicting!”)
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To: dila813; thackney

yup, both thackney and my link go to the same 2009 story...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3248207/posts?page=19#19


79 posted on 01/18/2015 4:49:11 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2001)
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To: DesertRhino
LNG by ship is way more dangerous and expensive.

While LNG is far more expensive, LNG is not dangerous. LNG will not even ignite. It first has to be vaporized and then diluted down to 5~15% concentration with air. Being lighter than air, it rises quickly up and away from the surface.

80 posted on 01/18/2015 4:54:10 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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