RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 3, 2023 at 9:23 am
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2023 at 9:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Built for gazprom by saipem - an italian contractor. When russian companies say it's technically possible to repair this or that, they must mean -if- they could get western assistance, as they've not been capable of developing, operating, or maintaining their own resource extraction for decades. Right now, this side story is taking a backseat to the drama of a shooting war - but one of the main effects of russias invasion for the rest of the world, going forward (regardless of whether ukraine wins or loses it's bid to retain sovereignty), is that the western interests that kept the russian extraction sector together with duct tape have fled and won't be going back any time soon..for purely economic reasons. A huge amount of exactly the stuff we need (the west, the world) came from those collaborations. That's part of why putin miscalculated the nature of western resolve.
I did love the line about whether or not the pipelines would be needed, though. OFC they're needed, especially now. I couldn't have come up with a better joke.
I did love the line about whether or not the pipelines would be needed, though. OFC they're needed, especially now. I couldn't have come up with a better joke.
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