Posted on 02/19/2024 10:20:13 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that since the West’s restrictions on buying cheap energy from Moscow, Türkiye has emerged as the “most reliable partner” in the gas sector, Anadolu news agency reported.
“They were constantly saying that Russia does not provide (energy), but restricts. We do not restrict anything… we give everything. The Turks proved to be the most reliable partner. It goes through TurkStream,” Putin said in an interview with Rossiya-1 TV.
The West hoped that Russia would collapse if they did not buy gas from the country, Putin said, adding that this approach had an impact on Western economies rather than on Moscow.
“Industry is moving to other countries, including the US, where more favourable conditions have been created and where energy resources are cheaper. Because they need to be liquefied before being transported across the ocean, then turned to gas again. All this increases costs,” the Russian president said.
He added that the non-energy sector of the Russian economy is expanding at a much faster pace than before and that it is coping with Europe’s refusal to buy Russian gas by turning to alternative energy sources.
“We are starting to work more on our gasification, on using these energy resources to solve internal economic problems, not only in the housing and communal services system but also for the economy and industry,” he said.
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Gog and Magog!
Ezekiel 38.
Queen Noor, the current king’s stepmother, is American. He’s always been shady with ties to the US. Our military there hopefully is wary.
Why is Turkey still in NATO?
Turkey has been in NATO for about 60 years. Incirlik was where IRBMs were based that were the trade off for removal of Soviet missiles in Cuba, a little tidbit whitewashed by the Camelot folks in JFK’s admin.
Turkey has the 2nd largest Army in NATO.
It also hosts a wide variety of antenna for monitoring what goes in in Russia.
If Ukraine had paid for the gas it was stealing during transit to Europe, there would have been no Turkistream pipeline.
And Putin blocked the Qatar-Turkey Gas Pipeline to make sure of that. It's almost a slap in Erdogans face to proclaim it this way.
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