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Trade in War

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94 points LorenDB | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 14:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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rho4 ◴[01 Sep 25 08:41 UTC] No.45090791[source]▶
I for example do not understand how it can be possible that Ukraine transports Russian gas on its pipeline network. Not sure if that's still the case though.
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contrarian1234 ◴[01 Sep 25 09:19 UTC] No.45090995[source]▶
Nor do I understand how Europe still buys gas from Russia.. in effect funding and prolonging the war. They seem to be playing both sides. Saying how horrible the Russian regime is, while directly giving it more money. And then giving weapons to Ukraine..

It seems completely morally bankrupt... If instead of Russia it was ISIS, would they still send money just so they have cheap gas? Like at what point would they stop? Do the Russians need to be impaling babies and goosestepping through Red Square?

I also don't understand why Ukrainians don't feel a deep sense of betrayal about this

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1. m4rtink ◴[01 Sep 25 20:55 UTC] No.45096525[source]▶
The reasonable countries, such as for example Czech Republic stopped using Russian gas and now also oil while the ones corrupted by Russian interests did not & could not be expected to until either their government realigns with the res of EU or the stuff stops flowing.

Guess what happened with the pumping stations once the last reasonable countries stopped importing & the transfer contracts were no longer valid. Yes, boom.

And of course there was much wailing from those corrupted countries that did nothing to get ridd themselves from dependency on Russian energy - how very expected.