8 Feb 2022 1:50 pm
A crucial point of the dispute regarding the Russia and the EU is that Germany gets very, very cold every winter, and has abandoned its nuclear power plants. The Russians need money and have far more gas than all the beans in Mexico produce, and if Putin invades Ukraine, the US and others will enable the building of a gas pipeline from the Netherlands into Germany and giant gas tankers from Qatar, that has even more gas than the Russians.
The Germans cannot force Putin to give them gas, and the Russians cannot sell their gas to anyone but the Germans, as there is not an adequate market for it elsewhere.
That is why the Russians cling so fervently to Syria, there are few deepwater ports on the Eastern Mediterranean. A pipeline from Qatar/Bahrain and perhaps Saudia and the UAE through Syria to near Latakia could make providing Middle Eastern gas to Europe even easier. The RussIans want to prevent such a pipeline. The
The Germans cannot force Putin to give them gas, and the Russians cannot sell their gas to anyone but the Germans, as there is not an adequate market for it elsewhere.
That is why the Russians cling so fervently to Syria, there are few deepwater ports on the Eastern Mediterranean. A pipeline from Qatar/Bahrain and perhaps Saudia and the UAE through Syria to near Latakia could make providing Middle Eastern gas to Europe even easier. The RussIans want to prevent such a pipeline. The