The gas supply flowing through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline has been completely shut off
Russia claimed this week that it was shutting the gas supply off temporarily in order to do maintenance on the line.
Then it claimed it had discovered a problem which prevented it from resuming the supply.
No one is being fooled by any of this anymore.
The Times has a helpful graph that shows how Russia has been manipulating the supply of gas through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline since the invasion of Ukraine
The most likely motive for this decision to keep the supply turned off is an effort by the G7 to limit how much Russia can earn from oil sales
Top officials from the world's leading advanced economies agreed to move ahead with a plan to cap the price of Russian oil
The G7 is trying to limit the rates the world will pay for Russian oil and Putin responded by cutting of Russian gas
Oil and gas make up about half of Russia's exports. Cutting those exports abruptly will have a substantial impact on their economy.
China might be willing to pick up some of the slack but in the past China has been unwilling to pay anything above a discount price.
Sergey Lavrov is the spokesperson for an authoritarian regime run by a man who intends to rule for life
He's really not in a position to suggest democratic representatives in other nations should be more responsive to the wishes of their citizens
And yet, there are lots of people on Twitter calling Baerbock an authoritarian and somehow missing the bigger picture here.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/09/03/russia-has-shut-off-the-gas-supply-to-germany-indefinitely-n494366
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