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Old 09-27-2022, 04:58 PM   #7983
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Found a nice clarifying picture of the gasline situation. Spoilered for size.

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So essentially, now that Nord Stream is (temporarily at least) out, the pipelines go

- Belarus-Poland-Germany (-Netherlands-France-UK)
- Ukraine-Slovakia-Czech-Germany (also -Austria-Italy...)
- Bulgaria-Greece-Albania-Italy-Switzerland-Germany

That southern pipeline gets a lot less headlines so I'm not sure what's been going on with that exactly, but a quick browse through the headlines tells me it has been far from business as usual during this war.

Italy btw just elected a far-right government that's expected to be fairly Putin-friendly (but obviously because it's the Italians they're hard to predict exactly), and Bulgaria's government collapsed during the summer and they'll hold an election in about a week I think. I haven't been following that situation, but from what I can browse the main parties in Bulgaria seem to all be fairly Pro-European instead of Russophiles, so it doesn't look like the situation is about to change dramatically there.
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