Role of Russia

Siberia said:
Today's news: "evil" Russia sends humanitarian aid to Palestine..

The humanitarian aid is provided pursuant to Russian government’s resolution in connection with Palestinian authorities’ request for medications and medical equipment.

Thanks, Siberia. It's now on SOTT. Notice Putin's smart move to send the humanitarian aid through Jordan. This way there is a chance that supplies may actually reach Gaza, instead of taking the "by sea" route and trying to break the ridiculous embargo imposed by the "mad dog", i.e. Israel. But who knows, maybe Israel will make the transfer difficult after all, especially since Jordan-Israel relations aren't that good lately.
 
Siberia said:
Today's news: "evil" Russia sends humanitarian aid to Palestine..

The humanitarian aid is provided pursuant to Russian government’s resolution in connection with Palestinian authorities’ request for medications and medical equipment.

Healthcare institutions in the Gaza Strip experience severe shortages of medical supplies after the Israeli military operation Protective Edge.

and decorates a Christmas tree for Notre Dame de Paris:

In the past, it was customary for donations toward the tree to be collected only with the help of the local parish. This year, however, it couldn’t make the target. In the short space of time remaining, Moscow City Hall came to the rescue.

Saturday’s ceremony was attended by Russian ambassador Aleksandr Orlov and the rector of the Notre Dame de Paris, Monsignor Patrick Jacquin, both of whom took part in switching on the enormous tree.

One great reader’s comment:
Russia provides a tree for Christmas and US a green but plug ...

;D
 
Very good and informative video interview with analyst Mikhail Khazin, where he talks about Putin and why he never was accepted by the West, and why he is being so viciously demonized. What he says makes it clear that Putin wasn't accepted "into the club" (while the likes of Khodorkovsky were) because he isn't a psychopath.


https://youtu.be/ESapUYyUwls

Also read this SOTT exclusive for further analysis of the situation and another excellent video.
 
A french article stating that OTAN (Breedlove ... i like his family name) said, indirectly, that there are no russian troops in Ukraine
_http://russeurope.hypotheses.org/3079

I'm sure they gonna spread this information on all main medias, no ? :halo:
 
A very well written and comprehensive article on the political, economic and military strategy of Putin and the "Role of Russia" and the BRICS Nations, in creating a New World Order of mutual respect and co-operation. It describes U.S. Politics and it's recent sanctions applied against Russia and how those same restrictions have set in motion, the U.S.'s undoing as a World Power and eventual collapse of the Dollar. The article is in Russian, English and Italian.

“The Golden Trap of Chess Master Vladimir Putin”
_https://syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/putin-golden-trap-1/

Thurs. Nov. 27, 2014 -Accusations of the West towards Putin traditionally are based on the fact that he worked in the KGB. And therefore he is a cruel and immoral person. Putin is blamed for everything. But nobody ever accused Putin of lack of intelligence.

Any accusations against this man only emphasize his ability for quick analytical thinking and making clear and balanced political and economic decisions.


Often Western media compares this ability with the ability of a grandmaster, conducting a public chess simul. Recent developments in US economy and the West in general allow us to conclude that in this part of the assessment of Putin’s personality Western media is absolutely right.

Despite numerous success reports in the style of Fox News and CNN, today, Western economy, led by the United States is in Putin’s trap, the way out of which no one in the West can see or find. And the more the West is trying to escape from this trap, the more stuck it becomes.

What is the truly tragic predicament of the West and the United States, in which they find themselves? And why all the Western media and leading Western economists are silent about this, as a well guarded military secret? Let’s try to understand the essence of current economic events, in the context of the economy, setting aside the factors of morality, ethics and geopolitics.

After realizing its failure in Ukraine, the West, led by the US set out to destroy Russian economy by lowering oil prices, and accordingly gas prices as the main budget sources of export revenue in Russia and the main sources of replenishment of Russian gold reserves.

It should be noted that the main failure of the West in Ukraine is not military or political. But in the actual refusal of Putin to fund the Western project of Ukraine at the expense of the budget of Russian Federation. What makes this Western project not viable in the near and inevitable future.


Last time under president Reagan, such actions of the West’s lowering of oil prices led to ‘success’ and the collapse of USSR. But history does not repeat itself all the time. This time things are different for the West. Putin’s response to the West resembles both chess and judo, when the strength used by the enemy is used against him, but with minimal costs to the strength and resources of the defender. Putin’s real policies are not public. Therefore, Putin’s policy largely has always focused not so much on effect, but on efficiency.

Very few people understand what Putin is doing at the moment. And almost no one understands what he will do in the future.

No matter how strange it may seem, but right now, Putin is selling Russian oil and gas only for physical gold.

Putin is not shouting about it all over the world. And of course, he still accepts US dollars as an intermediate means of payment. But he immediately exchanges all these dollars obtained from the sale of oil and gas for physical gold!

To understand this, it is enough to look at the dynamics of growth of gold reserves of Russia and to compare this data with foreign exchange earnings of the RF coming from the sale of oil and gas over the same period. (graph)

Moreover, in the third quarter the purchases by Russia of physical gold are at an all-time high, record levels. In the third quarter of this year, Russia had purchased an incredible amount of gold in the amount of 55 tons. It’s more than all the central banks of all countries of the world combined (according to official data)!

In total, the central banks of all countries of the world have purchased 93 tons of the precious metal in the third quarter of 2014. It was the 15th consecutive quarter of net purchases of gold by Central banks. Of the 93 tonnes of gold purchases by central banks around the world during this period, the staggering volume of purchases – of 55 tons – belongs to Russia.

Not so long ago, British scientists have successfully come to the same conclusion, as was published in the Conclusion of the U.S. Geological survey a few years ago. Namely: Europe will not be able to survive without energy supply from Russia. Translated from English to any other language in the world it means: “The world will not be able to survive if oil and gas from Russia is subtracted from the global balance of energy supply”.

Thus, the Western world, built on the hegemony of the petrodollar, is in a catastrophic situation. In which it cannot survive without oil and gas supplies from Russia. And Russia is now ready to sell its oil and gas to the West only in exchange for physical gold! The twist of Putin’s game is that the mechanism for the sale of Russian energy to the West only for gold now works regardless of whether the West agrees to pay for Russian oil and gas with its artificially cheap gold, or not.

Because Russia, having a regular flow of dollars from the sale of oil and gas, in any case, will be able to convert them to gold with current gold prices, depressed by all means by the West. That is, at the price of gold, which had been artificially and meticulously lowered by the Fed and ESF many times, against artificially inflated purchasing power of the dollar through market manipulation.

Interesting fact: the suppression of gold prices by the special department of US Government – ESF (Exchange Stabilization Fund) – with the aim of stabilizing the dollar has been made into a law in the United States.

In the financial world it is accepted as a given that gold is an antidollar.
◾In 1971, US President Richard Nixon closed the ‘gold window’, ending the free exchange of dollars for gold, guaranteed by the US in 1944 at Bretton Woods.
◾In 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin has reopened the ‘gold window’, without asking Washington’s permission.

Right now the West spends much of its efforts and resources to suppress the prices of gold and oil. Thereby, on the one hand to distort the existing economic reality in favor of the US dollar and on the other hand, to destroy the Russian economy, refusing to play the role of obedient vassal of the West.

And now Putin sells Russian energy resources in exchange for these US dollars, artificially propped by the efforts of the West. With which he immediately buys gold, artificially devalued against the U.S. dollar by the efforts of the West itself!

There is another interesting element in Putin’s game. It’s Russian uranium. Every sixth light bulb in the USA depends on its supply. Which Russia sells to the US too, for dollars.

Thus, in exchange for Russian oil, gas and uranium, the West pays Russia with dollars, purchasing power of which is artificially inflated against oil and gold by the efforts of the West. But Putin uses these dollars only to withdraw physical gold from the West in exchange, for the price denominated in US dollars, artificially lowered by the same West.

This truly brilliant economic combination by Putin puts the West led by the United States in a position of a snake, aggressively and diligently devouring its own tail.

The idea of this economic golden trap for the West, probably originated not from Putin himself. Most likely it was the idea of Putin’s Advisor for Economic Affairs – doctor Sergey Glazyev. Otherwise why seemingly not involved in business bureaucrat Glazyev, along with many Russian businessmen, was personally included by Washington on the sanction list? The idea of an economist, doctor Glazyev was brilliantly executed by Putin, with full endorsement from his Chinese colleague – XI Jinping.

Especially interesting in this context looks the November statement of the first Deputy Chairman of Central Bank of Russia Ksenia Yudaeva, which stressed that the CBR can use the gold from its reserves to pay for imports, if need be. It is obvious that in terms of sanctions by the Western world, this statement is addressed to the BRICS countries, and first of all China. For China, Russia’s willingness to pay for goods with Western gold is very convenient. And here’s why:

“China recently announced that it will cease to increase its gold and currency reserves denominated in US dollars. Considering the growing trade deficit between the US and China (the current difference is five times in favor of China), then this statement translated from the financial language reads: “China stops selling their goods for dollars”. The world’s media chose not to notice this grandest in the recent monetary history event . The issue is not that China literally refuses to sell its goods for US dollars. China, of course, will continue to accept US dollars as an intermediate means of payment for its goods. But, having taken dollars, China will immediately get rid of them and replace with something else in the structure of its gold and currency reserves. Otherwise the statement made by the monetary authorities of China loses its meaning: “We are stopping the increase of our gold and currency reserves, denominated in US dollars.” That is, China will no longer buy United States Treasury bonds for dollars earned from trade with any countries, as they did this before.”

Thus, China will replace all the dollars that it will receive for its goods not only from the US but from all over the world with something else not to increase their gold currency reserves, denominated in US dollars. And here is an interesting question: what will China replace all the trade dollars with? What currency or an asset? Analysis of the current monetary policy of China shows that most likely the dollars coming from trade, or a substantial chunk of them, China will quietly replace and de facto is already replacing with Gold.

In this aspect, the solitaire of Russian-Chinese relations is extremely successful for Moscow and Beijing. Russia buys goods from China directly for gold at its current price. While China buys Russian energy resources for gold at its current price. At this Russian-Chinese festival of life there is a place for everything: Chinese goods, Russian energy resources, and gold – as a means of mutual payment. Only US dollar has no place at this festival of life. And this is not surprising. Because the US dollar is not a Chinese product, nor a Russian energy resource. It is only an intermediate financial instrument of settlement – and an unnecessary intermediary. And it is customary to exclude unnecessary intermediaries from the interaction of two independent business partners.

It should be noted separately that the global market for physical gold is extremely small relative to the world market for physical oil supplies. And especially the world market for physical gold is microscopic compared to the entirety of world markets for physical delivery of oil, gas, uranium and goods.

Emphasis on the phrase “physical gold” is made because in exchange for its physical, not ‘paper’ energy resources, Russia is now withdrawing gold from the West, but only in its physical, not paper form. So does China, by acquiring from the West the artificially devalued physical gold as a payment for physical delivery of real products to the West.

The West’s hopes that Russia and China will accept as payment for their energy resources and goods “shitcoin” or so-called “paper gold” of various kinds also did not materialize. Russia and China are only interested in gold and only physical metal as a final means of payment.


For reference: the turnover of the market of paper gold, only of gold futures, is estimated at $360 billion per month. But physical delivery of gold is only for $280 million a month. Which makes the ratio of trade of paper gold versus physical gold: 1000 to 1.

Using the mechanism of active withdrawal from the market of one artificially lowered by the West financial asset (gold) in exchange for another artificially inflated by the West financial asset (USD), Putin has thereby started the countdown to the end of the world hegemony of petrodollar. Thus, Putin has put the West in a deadlock of the absence of any positive economic prospects.

The West can spend as much of its efforts and resources to artificially increase the purchasing power of the dollar, lower oil prices and artificially lower the purchasing power of gold. The problem of the West is that the stocks of physical gold in possession of the West are not unlimited. Therefore, the more the West devalues oil and gold against the US dollar, the faster it loses devaluing Gold from its not infinite reserves.

In this brilliantly played by Putin economic combination the physical gold is rapidly flowing to Russia, China, Brazil, Kazakhstan and India, the BRICS countries, from the reserves of the West. At the current rate of reduction of reserves of physical gold, the West simply does not have the time to do anything against Putin’s Russia until the collapse of the entire Western petrodollar world. In chess the situation in which Putin has put the West, led by the US, is called “time trouble”.


The Western world has never faced such economic events and phenomena that are happening right now. USSR rapidly sold gold during the fall of oil prices. Russia rapidly buys gold during the fall in oil prices. Thus, Russia poses a real threat to the American model of petrodollar world domination.

The main principle of world petrodollar model is allowing Western countries led by the United States to live at the expense of the labor and resources of other countries and peoples based on the role of the US currency, dominant in the global monetary system (GMS) . The role of the US dollar in the GMS is that it is the ultimate means of payment. This means that the national currency of the United States in the structure of the GMS is the ultimate asset accumulator, to exchange which to any other asset does not make sense.

What the BRICS countries, led by Russia and China, are doing now is actually changing the role and status of the US dollar in the global monetary system. From the ultimate means of payment and asset accumulation, the national currency of the USA, by the joint actions of Moscow and Beijing is turned into only an intermediate means of payment. Intended only to exchange this interim payment for another and the ulimate financial asset – gold. Thus, the US dollar actually loses its role as the ultimate means of payment and asset accumulation, yielding both of those roles to another recognized, denationalized and depoliticized monetary asset – gold.

Traditionally, the West has used two methods to eliminate the threat to the hegemony of petrodollar model in the world and the consequent excessive privileges for the West.

One of these methods – colored revolutions. The second method, which is usually applied by the West, if the first fails – military aggression and bombing.

But in Russia’s case both of these methods are either impossible or unacceptable for the West.

Because, firstly, the population of Russia, unlike people in many other countries, does not wish to exchange their freedom and the future of their children for Western kielbasa. This is evident from the record ratings of Putin, regularly published by the leading Western rating agencies. Personal friendship of Washington protégé Navalny with Senator McCain played for him and Washington a very negative role. Having learned this fact from the media, 98% of the Russian population now perceive Navalny only as a vassal of Washington and a traitor of Russia’s national interests. Therefore Western professionals, who have not yet lost their mind, cannot dream about any color revolution in Russia.

As for the second traditional Western way of direct military aggression, Russia is certainly not Yugoslavia, not Iraq or Libya. In any non-nuclear military operation against Russia, on the territory of Russia, the West led by the US is doomed to defeat. And the generals in the Pentagon exercising real leadership of NATO forces are aware of this. Similarly hopeless is a nuclear war against Russia, including the concept of so-called “preventive disarming nuclear strike”. NATO is simply not technically able to strike a blow that would completely disarm the nuclear potential of Russia in all its many manifestations. A massive nuclear retaliatory strike on the enemy or a pool of enemies would be inevitable. And its total capacity will be enough for survivors to envy the dead. That is, an exchange of nuclear strikes with a country like Russia is not a solution to the looming problem of the collapse of a petrodollar world. It is in the best case, a final chord and the last point in the history of its existence. In the worst case – a nuclear winter and the demise of all life on the planet, except for the bacteria mutated from radiation.

The Western economic establishment can see and understand the essence of the situation. Leading Western economists are certainly aware of the severity of the predicament and hopelessness of the situation the Western world finds itself in, in Putin’s economic gold trap. After all, since the Bretton Woods agreements, we all know the Golden rule: “Who has more gold sets the rules.” But everyone in the West is silent about it. Silent because no one knows now how to get out of this situation.

If you explain to the Western public all the details of the looming economic disaster, the public will ask the supporters of a petrodollar world the most terrible questions, which will sound like this:

- How long will the West be able to buy oil and gas from Russia in exchange for physical gold?

And what will happen to the US petrodollar after the West runs out of physical gold to pay for Russian oil, gas and uranium, as well as to pay for Chinese goods?

No one in the west today can answer these seemingly simple questions.

And this is called “Checkmate”, ladies and gentlemen. The game is over.
 
The "West", aka the Anglo-American-Zionist Evil Empire, spreading chaos, death and destruction, and misery all over the world, is in for one hell of a take-down. They are up against an opponent so out of their league, it's hard to put into words. By the way, this article was on SOTT today (from a different source link and slightly different without the first few introductory paragraphs) and has also been making the rounds in a few blog comments (both versions/sources) including the Saker's blog the last few days.
 
More news from Syria:

MOSCOW, November 30 (Sputnik) — Syrian Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad told Lebanese newspaper al-Binna on Saturday that the developments in the strengthening of relations between Syria and Russia over the last months have impacted not only Syria but the Middle East as a whole, Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.

Russia stands by the Syrian people and [the country’s] leadership based on the credibility of its principles in supporting whoever fights terrorism and prevents it from spreading outside the Middle East,” SANA quoted Mikdad as saying.

The minister also noted that the role played by Russia on the international level in the Syrian conflict has gained it the respect of the entire world, adding that the two countries share in their positions on how to end the Syrian civil conflict. The struggle for peace must combine a continued struggle against international terrorism, and efforts toward national reconciliation, with inter-Syrian dialogue being conducted without any foreign interference in Syria’s internal affairs, Mikdad noted.

The Syrian minister’s statements follow commentary by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that “the fight against terrorists and extremists in the Middle East and North Africa, including naturally Syria…is a priority task for the international community.” Putin stated that “efforts to deter this threat should be based on UN Security Council resolutions, strict compliance with international law, the principles of state sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs of states in the first place.”

Answering questions for a written interview for Turkey’s Anadolu news agency, Putin also noted that “the main risk of further aggravation of the situation both in [Syria] and in neighboring states stems from the activities of the so-called Islamic State and other radical groups.” The president pointed out that these groups “were once actively employed by some Western countries, which flirted with them and encouraged them.”

The Russian president’s comments are in line with what the Syrian government has been saying for years – namely that some Western countries and their allies have been exacerbating civil strife in the country by supporting Syrian-based jihadi groups, which have since morphed into the Islamic State militant group and terror state.

Last week, the Russian Foreign Minister assured his Syrian counterpart that “Russia will continue helping Syria to maintain its combat capability to fight against terrorism.”

Syria has been engulfed in a civil war since 2011, the civil conflict quickly becoming a magnet for jihadi fighters from around the world seeking to topple Syria’s secular government and establish a caliphate. The war has claimed the lives of nearly 200,000 people since its inception. A US-led airstrike campaign against IS began in September, which Syrian officials said has thus far failed to weaken the terror state.

A few days ago Lavrov met Syrian FM Walid Muallem in Sochi, Russia:

SOCHI, November 26. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Russia has dispatched 30 planeloads of humanitarian aid to Syria over the past eighteen months.

“Russia is delivering considerable relief aid to the Syrian people. Over the past eighteen months the Emergencies Ministry has sent about 30 flights with such cargoes,” Lavrov told the media after talks with his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem on Wednesday.

Humanitarian aid is provided by the Russian government, the Russian Orthodox Church, the Fund of St. Andrew the First Called, the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society and other Russian civil society organizations.

Lavrov said that Russia is interested in developing trading and economic cooperation with Syria, which was discussed at a meeting of the inter-governmental commission a month ago.

Also, he stated that Russia supported the Syrian leadership in its efforts to ensure the rights of persecuted Christians.

We believe it is of fundamental importance to ensure the Middle East and Syria should be preserved as states where the people of all nationalities and faiths can live in equality and equal security.
 
It seems that something very interesting is going on about Syria right now:

1) Today Putin said that Russia is not planning to build the Southern Stream gas pipeline to Europe anymore;

2) He also said that Russia is going to increase the capacity of the Blue Stream pipeline through Turkey instead (see the same article).

In responce, Turkey promises to review its attitude to Syria (the same article):

Russia and Turkey are against the strengthening of terrorist organization and the spread of chaos in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during an official visit to Turkey on Monday.

"We share an opinion that we do not want to allow the spread chaos on Syrian territory, and we do not want to allow the strengthening of terrorist organizations there… Nobody wants that," Putin said following a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Putin added that the solution for the Syrian conflict must be acceptable for all political forces in the country, while only the Syrian people has the right to decide the fate of the current regime of Bashar Assad.
 
Yes, the new pipeline deal with Turkey (and increasing the Blue Stream volume, as well as, lots of other cooperation) is a major game changer. Making Turkey more reliant on Russia in the energy and other spheres will be taking the Empire and its minions by surprise (especially since Turkey and Russia have had conflicts for centuries, and Turkey is a NATO member). Lots of other very interesting and surprising things going on all around. Putin and his team are going to keep us on the edge of our seats for the next several months.

Russia's two gigantic gas deals with China this year - and the new pipeline and supporting infrastructure are another sign that the future is in Eurasia, as the dead EU economy will continue to go down, and with it gas/energy demand in that market. The time of the US collapsing is accelerating, as is the unraveling of the EU and NATO.
 
SeekinTruth said:
Yes, the new pipeline deal with Turkey (and increasing the Blue Stream volume, as well as, lots of other cooperation) is a major game changer. Making Turkey more reliant on Russia in the energy and other spheres will be taking the Empire and its minions by surprise (especially since Turkey and Russia have had conflicts for centuries, and Turkey is a NATO member). Lots of other very interesting and surprising things going on all around. Putin and his team are going to keep us on the edge of our seats for the next several months.

Russia's two gigantic gas deals with China this year - and the new pipeline and supporting infrastructure are another sign that the future is in Eurasia, as the dead EU economy will continue to go down, and with it gas/energy demand in that market. The time of the US collapsing is accelerating, as is the unraveling of the EU and NATO.

It's true, our mutual history with Turkey is very interesting, complicated and ironic. I'm not native Siberian for example, just like the major part of the current Siberian population who are mainly the Slavs. In fact, Siberia, Altai mountains in particular, is a cradle of modern Turks. I was born in a place where the majority of small settlements still bear Turk(ish) names, the two major aborigine peoples being Shors and Teleuts (Shoria is part of the Altai mountains chain). These peoples now constitute local ethnic minorities still preserving their ancient culture and traditions, including shamanism. So, by pursuing closer cooperation with Russia, Turkey is now returning home in some sense, historically speaking.

This process is natural not only from historic and cultural, but from the economic view point also: Russia has been among Turkey's top trade partners in the recent years (in terms of exports, imports and tourism). Turkey is a member of the European Customs Union, but not a EU member, which allows it more freedom to chose its economic partners. Thus, Turkey firmly rejected to join any sanctions against Russia, for example.

In terms of military partnership, Turkey is a NATO member. But NATO needs Turkey no less than Turkey needs NATO (if they need it at all, which is uncertain under current circumstances). Unlike Japan, another NATO member, Turkey remained neutral towards Russia, which again shows its independent position.

One can only hope that the current Turkish authorities will be wise enough to stop aligning themselves with pathocracy and chose if not conscious then at least pragmatic approach in relationships with their immediate neighbours, including Syria, Russia and Armenia (the later has recently signed a treaty to join our Eurasian Economic Union).
 
Putin has driven a nasty wedge in a already nicely cracked fissure on EU surface. I guess that there are more wedges alike (or even some "silver/gold bullets/bullion :wow:) prepared for striking a mortal blows to bloodsucking Count EC (European Commission) and Nosferatu NATO . Who could be the first to disassociate from those rotten corps(es)/walkin' dead: my favorite is Austria :evil:

Vlad The Bloodsucking Bastards Buster! :headbanger:

:-[

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NATOsferatu, the leading general of the Emperor of the Illusion and Chaos ;D

Really interesting situation development last days. Maybe we will see now the end in the Syrian war and some real fight against ISIS, from the Russian air force. Or something like that. The main thing is cutting Turkey off NATO influence. We will see probably increasing number of “suicide bombers” and “religious fight” in Turkey now. Who knows, maybe CIA will be imaginative and imagine some brand new terrorist group, especially for Turkey.
 
Bulgarian president is already lamenting:

:cry:
South Stream's European partners should be allowed have their say in the pipeline project's future, the Bulgarian President has said.

"South Stream is not a project of Russia and Bulgaria; it’s of Russia and the European Union. A decision on it can only be made in the Russia-EU format," Rosen Plevneliev said Tuesday.

"I oppose the idea that a kind of confrontation is happening,” he said. “When laws and regulations are observed, all large and small projects work out. I believe that no one in the EU will say ‘no’ to South Stream if Russia complies with the requirements of European legislation," Plevneliev concluded.

From:_http://rt.com/business/210655-south-stream-bulgaria-president/

...but EC has agenda of its (Washington) own:

The European Commission’s vice president says Europe needs to look for new energy sources after Russia abruptly decided to pull out of South Stream project that would have supplied natural gas to southern Europe.

“Russia’s decision to stop South Stream and the way it was taken, show why the diversification of the energy sources is important for Europe,” Kristalina Georgieva said on Tuesday.

From:_http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/12/02/388488/europe-seeking-new-energy-sources/

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Brilliant comment from a great (as usually) speech. First saw it at Sakers' but comes from News conference following state visit to Turkey.

The Saker said:
The quote by Putin which says it all...

"My Bulgarian colleagues have always told me that whatever happens, they would certainly implement South Stream, because this corresponds to their national interests. But here, unfortunately, this did not come to pass. If Bulgaria is deprived of the opportunity to act as a sovereign nation, then they should at least demand money from the European Commission to compensate for their lost profits, because direct revenues to Bulgaria’s budget alone would have been no less than 400 million Euros a year. But ultimately, this is also the choice of our Bulgarian partners; it seems they have certain obligations. Still, that’s not our business – it’s our partners’ business."
 
Avala said:
NATOsferatu, the leading general of the Emperor of the Illusion and Chaos ;D

Really interesting situation development last days. Maybe we will see now the end in the Syrian war and some real fight against ISIS, from the Russian air force. Or something like that. The main thing is cutting Turkey off NATO influence. We will see probably increasing number of “suicide bombers” and “religious fight” in Turkey now. Who knows, maybe CIA will be imaginative and imagine some brand new terrorist group, especially for Turkey.

I'll top that... ;)


NAsferaTO sounds "better".
 
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