I get why they're cutting poland off but why Bulgaria out of all countries? They haven't sent arms to ukraine while the g*rms sent fucking tanks
They are part of EU. They could dissent from subservience to USA like Hungary, which would be in their own interest but they didn't. Also it's not a fucking embargo or sanction, Gazprom just want another currency and is even offering to setup the deal to make it easier. I mean it isn't really strange in any commodity exchange? Compare this with the criminal sanctions USA are impposing on the countries.
The reason is simple, they played the stupid game of imperialism against themselves and now won stupid prize.
Well, fuck.
Also the title should be "Poland and Bulgaria won't pay the seller in the currency seller want so they won't be allowed to buy". I mean, this is not even a "free market, baby" moment our anticommunists love so much, but a basics of trade respected all over the world for thousands of years.
Polish government is. They always take deals with Russia for granted, then show rabid russophobia and are then very suprised Russia may have their own opinion, and they always cries bullshit like "weaponizing gas".
How is the situation now in Poland? Are gas prices skyrocketing? Are people scared? Are there protests or something?
Well up until now the prices are steadily going up since more than a year, and if the gas really will stop they will skyrocket highly, since energy policy of polish government is absolute mess (like pressurizing everyone to change all other fuels into gas, in heating, cooking, cars...) and full of corruption. People are generally alienated and inert (solidarność really did us in, that trauma still lingers, and 33 years of brainwashing did not helped either), but maybe this will move something, though most likely we will just see yet another swing towards the same socialdemocracy that betrayed working class two times already in similar situations in 1993-97 and 2001-4.
Yes, today morning. PGNiG (polish gas company) promise it won't have any influence on amount of gas delivered in Poland since they reserves are high and new sources are being opened, but they said nothing about the prices and i doubt their bragging about sources is entirely real too since they said Europe will be short (which imply Poland will have to compete with old EU and it always ended up bad for Poland in EU).
