There is no point for Russia to sign up for Minsk 3 because the first two are still haunting her.
As was the case with the previous agreements, Ukraine is going to violate them since day one, but the media is going to claim that Russia is doing it.
There is no point in any deals in such environment.
Regarding weaponized energy it takes a special kind of stupid to whine about.
Numerous top European leaders declared a total economic war on Russia, stating that they are going to stop the gas import as quick as possible.
Once the flow stopped, according to the Russian statement due to valuable equipment withheld due to sanctions and the facts on the ground confirm it, they scream ‘energy weapon’, instead of assuming responsibility for own actions.
Bottom line is that the European claims of alternative sources are mostly of symbolic nature. The US and Australia a decreasing gas exports due to domestic shortages, and Arabs do not want to invest trillions into idiots whose goal is to switch to renewables in ten years.
Russia at the same time is rather effective in diverting the European sales and it makes Euros frustrated as hell, except they don’t have any viable options.
“Russia at the same time is rather effective in diverting the European sales and it makes Euros frustrated as hell, except they don’t have any viable options.”
The Minsk 3 plan, of course, is never going to be agreed to by Russia. That ship sailed months ago once Russia understood that this wasn’t about Ukraine; but a carefully designed NATO (read: U.S.) plan to defeat Russia. But, the fact that Macron and Scholz have been trying so desperately to make it happen is a clear indication of just how badly they want the sanctions to end and how eager they are to reconnect with their energy supplier...:-)
The “biggest sanctions program in history” has failed and is now fizzling out.
Are you Russian?