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Re:Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day by Joeri on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:30AM (#32993947)
Gas prices were dropping, half what they were at the peak. Putin wants gas prices to remain high to punish the EU and increase his own revenues. Since this incident they’re climbing back up. There are other ways for russia to export the gas than nordstream 1. He may think he can force an opening of nordstream 2. Putin has made so many errors in judgment that no strategy is too insane to be considered reasonable in his mind.
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Re:Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day by q-base on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:38AM (#32994044)
Nordstream 2 is also hit. Otherwise an interesting thought.
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Re:Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day by Markoff on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @09:42AM (#32995109)
Yamal/Brotherhood are fine, so this doesn't really change anything.
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Re:Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day by roenxi on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:51AM (#32994155)
I assume the Russians have some sort of valve on their end of the pipe that they could switch off. That would be cheaper than blowing the pipe up, and also givem more negotiating leverage.

It probably wasn't them.

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Re:Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day by ajsnigrutin on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @08:01AM (#32994242)
Yep, and putin has said that he'll close the valve (well, not him personally).

EU gets cold, and the only way to heat up is to sit down with putin and make some sort of an agreement.

Now, someone destroyed the pipeline, and there's no incentive for EU and putin to make any negotiations, since the pipeline won't be fixed before the winter is over.

But the USA will get to sell overpriced gas to EU

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Re:Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day by top_sigrid on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:36AM (#32994015)
But Northstream 2 ist also damaged which should stand in the way of opening, especially as these events are unlikely to be anything but deliberate.
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Re:Three Nord Stream gas pipelines damaged in one day by torginus on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:52AM (#32994166)
I'd imagine the Russian would have less permanent ways of restricting gas flow.
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