sparky wrote:.
While the US is twisting European knikers in knots , things are happening at the other end of the world
the "power of Siberia" pipeline will be put on line in December
with a ceremony with Prez Putin and Xijinping in teleconference
Southward the "Turk stream" is being filled and will start pumping , the connection to the European network is going to be through Bulgaria , Hungary and Serbia .it is being worked on now with great dispatch
https://www.businessinsider.com/hungary ... ?r=AU&IR=T
It should be noted that , OH surprise all those supply line will be through Russia friendly countries
obviously someone has been thinking this through for a long while
the tripartite talks between the EU , Ukraine and Russia are painfully slow
Russia has stated that the dropping of the Stockholm arbitration ruling granting some two billions dollar to Ukraine
is quote ...." the main impediment "
Gazprom totally rejected the ruling as absurd likening it to someone being robbed having to pay the robber
pretty soon it will be a question of where and how will Russia send its considerable but not endless resources in gas
That Stockholm kangaroo arbitration court ruling is something else. It is the first time ever that the poverty of a party has been used as a reason to demand penalty payments. So poor little Banderastan, foaming at the mouth with hate for Russians, somehow has the right to be paid extra money by Russians. Suck on it, morons.
And the ruling was not based on a contract breach or other precedent. It's pure political theater.