Oorlog in Oekraïne #277 Gas stopt op 1 april

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Op donderdag 31 maart 2022 16:36 schreef Breekfast het volgende:

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De voorraden zullen het probleem niet zijn nee de komende maanden. Wel zal de gasprijs gigantisch gaan stijgen als het aanbod uit Rusland wegvalt.

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Op donderdag 31 maart 2022 16:26 schreef ludovico het volgende:
2 dingen die mutually exclusive zijn:

"GAS MOET IN ROEBELS BETAALT WORDEN"
"GAZPROM BANK ACCEPTEERT EURO'S MAAR WISSELT ZE GELIJK OM IN ROEBELS OM AAN BOVENSTAANDE TE VOLDOEN."

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Op donderdag 31 maart 2022 16:54 schreef Vallon het volgende:
Oorlog is vervelend, het rillend koud krijgen zoal men als 36 dagen doet in Oekraïne, is nog erger.

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THERE IS NO LIBERAL WORLD ORDER

Nobody else anywhere in the Western world felt any threat at all. For 30 years, Western oil and gas companies piled into Russia, partnering with Russian oligarchs who had openly stolen the assets they controlled. Western financial institutions did lucrative business in Russia too, setting up systems to allow those same Russian kleptocrats to export their stolen money and keep it parked, anonymously, in Western property and banks. We convinced ourselves that there was no harm in enriching dictators and their cronies. Trade, we imagined, would transform our trading partners. Wealth would bring liberalism. Capitalism would bring democracy—and democracy would bring peace.

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Even when the Russians, having grown rich on the kleptocracy we facilitated, bought Western politicians, funded far-right extremist movements, and ran disinformation campaigns during American and European democratic elections, the leaders of America and Europe still refused to take them seriously. It was just some posts on Facebook; so what? We didn’t believe that we were at war with Russia. We believed, instead, that we were safe and free, protected by treaties, by border guarantees, and by the norms and rules of the liberal world order.
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There is no natural liberal world order, and there are no rules without someone to enforce them. Unless democracies defend themselves together, the forces of autocracy will destroy them. I am using the word forces, in the plural, deliberately. Many American politicians would understandably prefer to focus on the long-term competition with China. But as long as Russia is ruled by Putin, then Russia is at war with us too. So are Belarus, North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Nicaragua, Hungary, and potentially many others. We might not want to compete with them, or even care very much about them. But they care about us. They understand that the language of democracy, anti-corruption, and justice is dangerous to their form of autocratic power—and they know that that language originates in the democratic world, our world.

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Trading with autocrats promotes autocracy, not democracy. Congress has made some progress in recent months in the fight against global kleptocracy, and the Biden administration was right to put the fight against corruption at the heart of its political strategy. But we can go much further, because there is no reason for any company, property, or trust ever to be held anonymously. Every U.S. state, and every democratic country, should immediately make all ownership transparent. Tax havens should be illegal. The only people who need to keep their houses, businesses, and income secret are crooks and tax cheats.

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We need a dramatic and profound shift in our energy consumption, and not only because of climate change. The billions of dollars we have sent to Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia have promoted some of the worst and most corrupt dictators in the world. The transition from oil and gas to other energy sources needs to happen with far greater speed and decisiveness. Every dollar spent on Russian oil helps fund the artillery that fires on Ukrainian civilians.

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Op donderdag 31 maart 2022 16:55 schreef quirina het volgende:
We hopen maar op een hete zomer.
Alhoewel het gebruik van airconditioning ook niet bevorderlijk is voor het energieverbruik.

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Op donderdag 31 maart 2022 16:57 schreef Catatafishh het volgende:
Dat roebel-gasverhaal was toch uitgesteld? Of heb ik wat gemist?

Duitse leraar allemaal onvoldoende of nee toch niet

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Op donderdag 31 maart 2022 16:56 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Stiekem wel mooi dit.

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Op donderdag 31 maart 2022 16:59 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Dit maar dan met Poetin en gas:

Duitse leraar allemaal onvoldoende of nee toch niet

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Op donderdag 31 maart 2022 16:44 schreef Tocadisco het volgende:

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Kan technisch gezien toch? De procedures en financiering zorgen ervoor dat het lang duurt, niet zo zeer het daadwerkelijke bouwen.

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Op donderdag 31 maart 2022 16:59 schreef quirina het volgende:
Op kou kun je je kleden.

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Op donderdag 31 maart 2022 16:59 schreef Vallon het volgende:

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Ik denk het..... gewenst fake nieuws...... in formele media van staatswege lees ik niets van een dergelijke veronderstellingen. Rusland gaat zelfs nog een stapje verder door te eisen dat betalers een Russische bankrekening moeten hebben (ik denk iets met Swift).

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Op donderdag 31 maart 2022 17:03 schreef Aether het volgende:
Benieuwd hoe China al dit nieuws volgt over een onbetrouwbaar Rusland.