Community | January 07, 2009 | 5 comments

The Winter Gas War

source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123128790806859247.html?mod=djemEditorialPage

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The American view............?or just the inability to stand up as reporters and claim the same about Bush and his evil manipulations and pursuit of oil pipelines???????
Why wouldn't Russia want to compete against Untied States? after all Reagan showed them the democratic way to steal from the poor with their permission.
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Five months after sending Russian tanks into Georgia, Vladimir Putin has turned his sights to another pesky democratic neighbor, Ukraine. His weapon of choice this time is natural gas.
[Review & Outlook] AP

Try to ignore the noise about transit fees, back payments and market prices. Here's the salient fact about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine over gas supplies: Russia's strongman is wielding the energy club to undermine the pro-Western government in Kiev and scare the European Union into submission. The strategic stakes are as great as in Georgia last summer.

Mr. Putin, who has no formal oversight role at Gazprom, nonetheless ordered a 15% cut in gas deliveries to Ukraine on New Year's Day, amid a contractual dispute over prices. Russia used the same crude pressure tactic in January 2006, when Gazprom first cut supplies and destroyed its once stellar reputation for reliability.

But the impact down the line on Europe, which gets a fifth of all its gas through Ukraine, appears more pronounced than three years ago. Amid freezing winter temperatures, six European countries yesterday reported a halt in gas supplies while five others saw significant reductions. Tens of thousands of people were left without heat, including two mid-sized cities in Bulgaria. Here in the U.S., heating oil prices jumped 3.3% on expectations that Europeans would switch from natural gas to warm their homes.

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5 comments // The Winter Gas War

  • ghostrider
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      ghostrider  

    • The brave people of the ukraine are sick and tired of their CORRUPT,DIHONEST goverment ,their HEARTS and SOULS scream out to mother RUSSIA for JUSTICE and FREEDOM like it was before when ukraine did belong to mother RUSSIA.The only real superpower in the world>RUSSIA

    • 3 years ago
  • ghostrider
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      ghostrider  

    • The international media shall blame the Ukraine gas stealing goverment which is in great debt to RUSSIA and refuses to pay their bill,so because this fact the EU must suffer in the cold.The ONLY one to blame is the US sponsored puppet goverment of the UKRAINE .They are dishonest,corrupt ,gas stealing puppets of a decadent rotten capitalist new worldorder servants getting richer every day on the back of the ukraine people.RUSSIAS beloved HEROS and real worldleaders VLADIMIR PUTIN,DIMITRY MEDWEDW,ALEXANDER MEDWEDEW are the world ELITE /COPIA HONORIS/their are in any way SUPREME they are COPIA HONORIS.Freedomfighter,Zsolt Sass

    • 3 years ago
  • damnneargenius
  • ghostrider
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      ghostrider  

    • It is a clear act of AGRESSION by the ukranien goverment against the EU not to pay their DEBTS towards gazprom and let the people of the EU in the COLD.Even the people of Ukraine are FED up by the AGRESSION of their corrupt,stealing goverment and the TIME has come where the people of the Ukraine will stand up against their stealing goverment and OVERTHROW >LIBERATE>UKRAINE from his stealing DICTATORSHIP goverment and this must happen by ALL means including the force of the people,because it is the wish of the free people of the Ukraine to be a part of RUSSIA again.Freedomfighter,Zsolt Sass

    • 3 years ago
  • msmith7894
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