https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1519617438358421507

  • riley
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    1 year ago

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  • forcequit [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    can't have cold dinners on a warming planet :think-about-it:

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      No dark secrets during the Holocaust. Nope, none of that. Move along.

  • Straight_Depth [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Man it sure is a good thing that winter is over forever and won't roll around again in five or six months. Stupid Pootin, doesn't he know winter is over?

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If the plan was not to give shit away for free, Russia choose the right time to turn off the gas.

  • anadyr [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    They're literally just buying the same Russian gas but from other Euro countries instead. It's so fucking stupid

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      At a premium, which is good for the CEOs of those other Euro states but bad for their residents.

  • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    And again, the "blackmail" here is that the countries in question are refusing to pay Russia for the natural gas, expecting them to just fork it over in return for nothing.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Refusing to pay them in rubles!

      And the crux of the issue is that accessing rubles will either require these countries to violate NATO sanctions on Russia or pay outrageous money change fees to whomever is still holding Russian currency.

      And Russia is demanding rubles for the same reason - payment in Euros or Dollars would be worthless in a Russian economy sanctioned out of the global finance network.

      This is all about Western nations attempting to flex their FinTech muscle, only to discover you can't heat your home with a loan from a bank.