In the new year Europe is set to face the worst energy famine in millennials,if care is not taken as European governments deceived by the Americans trade security against cheaper energy .And so on the morning of January 1, Russia in the most righteous approach obeyed its contract to the letter as faithful servant of a civilised folks with no complaint as it pumped its last cubic meter of gas to European customers same morning and opened another epoch of political uncertainty and energy insecurity the like of which world has never seen before due to no fault if hers but probity. What next would the heated homes do to survive struggling through some of the coldest period and darkest Winters of the cold war to balloon into the 21st century?This was begun with the invasion of Ukraine after which the Russian gas tap was shut in 2022 in response to prior sanctions on Kremlin powers for the invasion,it was too late for the European governments to realised they were deceived by Americans to trade security over cheaper gas market.The Yamal Europe pipelines from Belarus to Poland also followed and closed .Infact later in the same year,the new sources of Nordstream 1 and Nordstream 2 under Baltic sea transport to Germany were sabotaged under still murky circumstances yet to be deciphered.The only pipeline left Druzhba passes through Ukraine .Due to the refusal to renew the transit deals with gazprom,by Ukraine the gas contract was terminated.
The gas export from Russia also passes through the Soviet era Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline reaching Sudzha a town in the Kursk region of Russia recently recovered from NATO led invaders and the pipeline stretches from Siberia.The gas pipeline moves via Ukraine into Slovakia and also split its branches that can take gas further into Czech Republic and Austria.Dont forget the blue stream pipeline that supplies turkey.
Nevetherless by the first of January that witnessed contract termination that affect countries like Austria, Moldova and Slovakia . Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico had stated getting gas from alternative routes could be costlier than previously thought at a cost of $188m exposed by Slovak economy ministry.
Particularly hit was Moldova whose pro Russian break away region Transnistria received per annum 2bcm from Russia via Ukraine since 2022 was equally affected.Transnistria which borders Ukraine uses this supply to generate electricity and often sells this electricity to other parts of government controlled Moldova . Moldova due to chronic Shortage has declared state of emergency over this matter and Moldovan president Maia Sandu blamed Gazprom for not having contingency or alternative plan for this mess not considering alternative routes .Now Russia has accused Moldova of threatening Transnistria and if that happens might take Moldova too.The plan to erase Ukraine from global map is already guarranteed in 2025.
Russia still uses Turk stream pipeline on the bed of black sea with two lines one for domestic use that supports Turkiye and second for foreign export to central Europe in countries such as Hungary and Serbia.The capacity of the pipeline stands at 31.5bcm for both lines.To the North during the Soviet union era,80% of Russian gas passed through so called brotherhood pipelines completed by Soyuz that passes through Ukraine.After USSR crashed in 1991 the pipeline survived amidst frequent tensions between the two sides and it motivated alternative routes to the north and south.
This led to the birth of 4,000km Yamal and later Nordstream 1 a 1,230km pipeline which started in 2005 between Russia and Germany and inaugurated in 2011.Nordstream 2,much bigger was completed but later suspended in 2022 due to Ukraine Russia war .South stream over the black sea .South Caucasus pipeline towards the Caspian sea runs from Azerbaijan to Turkey and also link Georgia.Why did Nabucco pipeline with the intention to reduce dependency on Russian gas fail?Now replaced by southern gas corridor with three pipelines. Trans Anatolia natural gas pipeline (TANAP), transport gas from Caspian sea to turkey and Europe.Trans adriatic pipeline was opened in 2020,878 km to complete southern gas corridor that runs from Bulgaria,Greece,Albania and the adriatic sea, before it reaches Southern Italy.
Most of these pipelines were investment by Russia and she accounts for over 45% of Europe gas imports followed by Norway at 24%, Algeria,11% and rest UK,USA and Qatar.Russia exerts dominant influence over Europe gas network of 200,000 SQ.km of transmission pipelines and 2million of distribution networks with over 20,000 compressor and pressure reduction stations.
Why is US destabilizing gullible Europe for selfish reason?Pretty simple: To undermine Russia and steal her territories break her into pieces and usurp many part of the world restart colonisation and steal target countries and their borders.She doesn't defend wisdom or freedom and see her how he roped Russia into the war it knew nothing about.Thank Goodness Russia is ahead of America in nuclear warheads, missiles,bombers, military aircrafts,submarines especially nuclear submarines, nuclear bomb technology especially Tsar bomb deadliest bomb ever created .
The truth is:Is there any alternative route or routes?As it is not I say practically none.LNG sources from Qatar and the U.S not tenable and other sources from hungary, Austria and Czech republic to support for instance also received their life saving supply from same Russia.Azerbaijan, Turkey,India which might provide alternative routes also received their supplies from gazprom world largest gas multinational from Russia.So why is America deceiving this folks and making their people pay dearly for it?Can she compare herself with the world largest country blessed with 30% of world total natural resources, 24percent of world total natural gas and over 18m.sq.km of landmass? Little wonder same inferiority complex causes her to dream of annexing Greenland?If that happens Russia in her unquenchable spirit of competitive rivalry could take not just old 15 Soviet states even Finland and Poland that was formerly parts of Russia and taken over lands and borders as central Asia.The two could fight but Russia with her defense technology and growing landmass bound to take dominion Russia under Putin not happy about fall of old Soviet and has stated several times the lost territories belong to Russia.
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