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Jerome a Paris on August 29, 2007 - 3:52pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Well, i vigorously disagree.

The Russian-Central Asian announcement is just bluster - no pipeline will be built because they are already there! Russia fully controls Central Asian gas already, so it can threaten us more than reality does.

As to Belarus, I've written previously about it. It's about internal oligarchic fights, mostly. I can only send you back to these on TOD:
Russian gas and European energy security
Ukraine vs Russia: Tales of pipelines and dependence

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-.- on August 29, 2007 - 4:59pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top


The Russian-Central Asian announcement is just bluster - no pipeline will be built because they are already there!

If I'm not mistaking, the announcement came just a few days before Kazakhstan was supposed to promised its supplies for another pipeline in a conference in Poland. So Russians made sure there was no other pipeline with Putin visiting Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan during that week.

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Jerome a Paris on August 30, 2007 - 7:15am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

the announcement came just a few days before Kazakhstan was supposed to promised its supplies for another pipeline in a conference in Poland.

And I thought that I had explained that such promises were meaningless because there is no possibility of any other pipeline being built, because it misses major necessary ingredients.

It's all PR and show-business. It works because people believe these announcements, but they shouldn't.

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