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Originally Posted by Leondros
To loop this back to the Ukraine/Russia discussion if Nordstream 1/2 is truly as damaged as they say, there is no hope on fixing this for the winter. Its an interesting change of power dynamics as Germany no longer can look directly to Russia to stop their people from freezing to death if its a particularly cold winter. They need to go through Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, etc. Russia has lost some negotiating leverage when it comes to the global energy stage.
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I don't think it makes much of a difference at all. Nord Stream 2 was never even finished, so that one's irrelevant. Nord Stream 1 could supply gas, but Russia stopped that a month ago after several months of running it at 20% capacity.
Basically, no one was relying on either of those pipelines to supply gas this year. I suppose Russia could have tried to use Nord Stream 1 as a carrot to get concessions, but to what end? No one other than Germany was going to be influenced by that.