The U.S. can't export enough Liquefied natural gas to displace Gazprom unless it cuts other customers off (South Korea, Japan, China).
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50598 According to the Economist, Gazprom is delivering 230m cm/d to Europe. If Europe could ride out Putin holding back natural gas by using its reserves, and the U.S. stepped in with more shipments, it could be devastating. And the U.S. could give European leaders the I Told You So treatment. The timing is bad for Russia, as spring is coming. Marcus ________________________________ From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Patrick Reilly <patrick.rei...@ipsociety.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 3:39 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Ukraine and NATO I first note that the US engineered a coup in the Ukraine to eject a pro-Russian President. I add that NOT having any former Warsaw Bloc or former Soviet Republic incorporated as a NATO state was explicitly promised prior to the USSR peacefully disintegrating. And how many nations has the US invaded since Gorbachev’s premiership? —— Par On Tuesday, January 25, 2022, Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: I think the issue is, like Sweden and Finland, they have the role to Russia as buffers to U.S. medium range missiles. > On Jan 25, 2022, at 5:37 AM, glen > <geprope...@gmail.com<mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Why Ukraine is still not a NATO member: who is to blame and what to do? > https://uacrisis.org/en/why-ukraine-is-still-not-in-nato > > Does anyone here have any better understanding of why Ukraine membership is > so "toxic"? Is this simply a disagreement between hawks and doves wrt Putin's > dream of a new USSR? I seem to remember back when Crimea was first occupied > by Russia that nearly half the people really did identify more as Russians > than Ukrainians. Ignoring that polls are fraught, is there a sense that a > significant bloc Ukrainians, themselves, might disapprove of joining NATO? > > -- > glen > Theorem 3. There exists a double master function. > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 > bit.ly/virtualfriam<http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> > un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com<http://friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/<http://friam_redfish.com/> > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam<http://bit.ly/virtualfriam> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com<http://friam_redfish.com> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/<http://friam_redfish.com/> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -- Sent from Gmail Mobile
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