Spot on. NS2 - and its reliable and direct flow of natural gas at cheap and predictable prices - is critical for competitiveness of German industry. In 40+ years since Soviet, and then Russian gas flows to Europe it was always reliable supply regardless of how geopolitics changed, and there were many upheavals. Gas can flow to Germany al…
Spot on. NS2 - and its reliable and direct flow of natural gas at cheap and predictable prices - is critical for competitiveness of German industry. In 40+ years since Soviet, and then Russian gas flows to Europe it was always reliable supply regardless of how geopolitics changed, and there were many upheavals. Gas can flow to Germany also through Ukraine and Turkey, but both of these are prone to blackmail. Turkey is already doing that successfully (refugee deal from 2016) and Ukraine can - if they receive a permission from Washington - extort extra price, esp. given industrial collapse its main income is gas transit fees (and leasing / selling agricultural land). https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democracy-and-society/europe-cannot-allow-itself-to-be-blackmailed-forever-5082/
Spot on. NS2 - and its reliable and direct flow of natural gas at cheap and predictable prices - is critical for competitiveness of German industry. In 40+ years since Soviet, and then Russian gas flows to Europe it was always reliable supply regardless of how geopolitics changed, and there were many upheavals. Gas can flow to Germany also through Ukraine and Turkey, but both of these are prone to blackmail. Turkey is already doing that successfully (refugee deal from 2016) and Ukraine can - if they receive a permission from Washington - extort extra price, esp. given industrial collapse its main income is gas transit fees (and leasing / selling agricultural land). https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democracy-and-society/europe-cannot-allow-itself-to-be-blackmailed-forever-5082/