{"id":63458,"date":"2022-09-06T06:58:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63458"},"modified":"2022-09-06T06:58:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:58:33","slug":"russia-admits-weaponization-of-gas-halts-ns1-shipments-until-sanctions-lifted-as-eu-prepares-response-to-energy-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63458","title":{"rendered":"Russia Admits Weaponization Of Gas, Halts NS1 Shipments “Until Sanctions Lifted” As EU Prepares Response To Energy Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russia Admits Weaponization Of Gas, Halts NS1 Shipments “Until Sanctions Lifted” As EU Prepares Response To Energy Crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Putin is done playing around.<\/p>\n

Two days after Russia\u00a0indefinitely halted nat gas supplies\u00a0<\/a>via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for the amusing reason that there was an “oil leak” (shown below)…<\/p>\n

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… on Monday Russia finally admitted what everyone has known since February – namely that it has weaponized commodities in response to the West’s weaponization of currencies (as\u00a0Zoltan Pozsar has said all along<\/a>),when the Kremlin said that Russia\u2019s gas supplies to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline will not resume in full until the \u201ccollective west\u201d lifts sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, blamed EU, UK, and Canadian sanctions for Russia\u2019s failure to deliver gas through the key pipeline, which delivers gas to Germany from St Petersburg via the Baltic sea.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe problems pumping gas came about because of the sanctions western countries introduced against our country and several companies,\u201d Peskov said, according to the Interfax news agency. \u201cThere are no other reasons that could have caused this pumping problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peskov\u2019s comments were the most stark demand yet by the Kremlin that the EU roll back its sanctions in exchange for Russia resuming gas deliveries to the continent. It also confirms that Russia no longer needs to pretend it needs to export commodities to Europe – after all it has more than enough demand in China and India – and is willing to give Europe just enough to rope to… well, you know the rest.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Gazprom said it would halt gas supplies through Nord Stream 1 because of a technical fault, which it blamed on difficulties repairing German-made turbines in Canada…<\/p>\n

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Russia Admits Weaponization Of Gas, Halts NS1 Shipments “Until Sanctions Lifted” As EU Prepares Response To Energy Crisis Putin is done playing around. Two days after Russia\u00a0indefinitely halted nat gas supplies\u00a0via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for the amusing reason that there was an “oil leak” (shown below)… … on Monday Russia finally admitted what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[1997,281,554,694,4318],"class_list":["post-63458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-europe","tag-natural-gas","tag-russia","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63459,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63458\/revisions\/63459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}