[hardspunned]

Two month old article but relevant as Erdogan apparently has been re-elected. Both Putin and Erdogan are voicing support for the idea today. Another blow to the ineffective Western sanctions.

[2banana]

Protect your pipelines from democracy...

[BobL]

“Russia was the world’s largest gas exporter until February 24, when Moscow invaded Ukraine”

Sounds like the report cut class on Brainwashing Day, or he would have said “...when PUTIN invaded Ukraine” (rather than “when Moscow invaded Ukraine”) as it is necessary to Identify, Isolate, and Demonize a single person in order to push the cause forward.

No doubt his bosses will have a talk with him.

[BobL]

“Another blow to the ineffective Western sanctions.”

More than that, Russia is trying to come up with routes for pipelines that won’t get blown up by the West, or held hostage by the West, and using Turkey seems to best for that.

[bert]

turkey was given the opportunity and turned it down

Russia was

Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia are

[arkfreepdom]

Why would they not. We are acting crazy about energy/oil

[Widget Jr]

Looking at slightly more recent articles will put this into perspective.

Bloomberg. March 10, 2023. Turkey Blocks Transit of Goods Sanctioned by EU, US to Russia
Sanctionews. March 15, 2023. Turkish customs blocking certain goods to Russia
Reuters. March 20, 2023.Turkey halts transit of sanctioned goods to Russia -exporter, diplomat

Turkey is not only cooperating with enforcing sanctions on Russia, they are one of the key enforcers of those sanctions. Russia can sell all the oil it wants to Turkey, at the sanction rate. No matter how much Turkey buys, Russia still loses money.

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”Another blow to the ineffective Western sanctions.”

Because the actions are working Russia has few places to sell its natural gas.

The agreement with Russia’s best buddy China on the Power of Siberia 2 natural gas pipeline is ‘practically’ finalized.

In fact, it has been ‘practically’ finalized for some time, why is that? And Russia is now paid in yuan by China, perhaps slightly better than the difficult-to-spend rupees they take from India.
NB: Russia previously demanded all sales to be in rubles.
Why did that change?

Right now China and India are purchasing all the Russian oil they can get at below-market prices.
Then resell it at market price, clever bastards, arbitrage!
And that in turn keeps prices down, the more they flood the market the cheaper Russia has to sell.