Looks like Himars and 155mm excalibur rounds will have busy days ahead
True, but Ireland is not a policy maker in the EU like the Germans. Also, Ireland not dependent of russian gas.
No attempt at talking about 15 years of shale gas
Because fracking is all but banned all over EU, and that's because, you guessed it, russian lobby and influence.
I wouldn’t be so quick to poop on the Germans, yes some of them got bought by Russian criminal money and sold their countrymen who are paying for it now.
However we in Ireland have zero gas storage, no lng terminals bring built and no nuclear plants to turn back on unlike the Germans.
What we have is Eamon Ryan and his **** eating grin as he’s dreams of Ireland regressing to pre industrial utopia might come true.
No attempt to temporarily cut taxes on fuels (more than half of petrol/diesel price are taxes)
No attempt at having discussion about nuclear power
No exportation around Corrib field or anywhere else
Nothing
The point was not who said it, the point is the Germans' reaction, which either proves the haven't a clue, or they are deceiving, or both. And fwiw anyone who was paying attention was saying the same thing, that EU becomes dangerously dependent of russian gas.
There can be no going back to doing business with Russia, Europeans know that, but Russia doesn’t seem to know that Europe knows that.
Ukrainian military liberated Ozerne village near Yampil in Donetsk region
Is this 3 quarters still around the forum?
It's going to be a tough winter for everyone with prices but what's positive is that there seems to be no way back now, Russia has weaponised energy against all of Europe and even those who might not even care much about Ukraine will not be impressed at blackmail attempts. Russia has been exposed as a true mafia state (as well as war criminal state, obviously) that the EU clearly sees it needs to break away from completely
It still doesn't fix the stability issues. Best case, they can increase the export from 300MW to closer to 1GW. It still won't unlock the 15-20GW that Ukraine aren't using at present.
Still at it
And at his latest rally he is out telling everyone what smart guys Putin and Kim are.
Fair play to Trump for calling it correctly when it came to europes reliance on gas from Russia, but as they say even a stopped clock is correct twice a day.
If he cuts it off and says the reason why is Europe supporting Ukraine then there's no going back. If they really need the gas revenue down the road, there's no going back without loosing face. Something I doubt he could do as he would appear weak etc...
If however they make up some silly maintenance excuse and down the road they need the gas revenue, he can just say the maintenance issue has been fixed.
As predicted no one will freeze, Russian economy will continue to be strangled
governments are doing what governments meant to do and step in as they done with covid
Hopefully no-one wanting to buy it any more.
Ukraine power grid is to be connected to the polish power grid by end of the year.
Germany is already connected to the polish power grid, Germany could be able to get the electrical power by start of next year.
Cool
That was a project in planning for the last 8 years, regardless of the spin. Its one thing to connect the grids (synchronisation was the biggest issue due to the difference in phase angles) but power system dynamics issues aren't easily resolved.
we will see,they have solved bigger issues before,i am sure they will find a fast solution again
It's a two way transaction. Europe needs the gas but Russia also needs the money.
Not in Russia's interests to make things too difficult.
What is putting Putin off permanently stopping the sale of gas to Europe instead of indefinitely suspending supply under the 'maintenance' pretext?
They can offer all the electricity they want, there's no way to get it out. Currently limited to 300MW export due to transient instability on the grid and oscillations with generators on the Iberian peninsula. Not likely to be solved this winter.
I wonder are these lads still laughing...
I doubt they will use the ones Russia is playing russian roulette with
The bottom of that article shows that Enerhoda accounts for 6 of the 15 reactors in Ukraine. The other 9 are further West in Ukraine, well away from the front line. Enerhodar itself is only 50km from the front line, or 5km as the crow Common Buzzard flies across the river.
How dependant is that on them getting their nuclear power plant back ?
I suppose most of their industry and commercial sector is off line ,so that's not using power ..
Looks like Ukraine is offering electricity in return to Germany,so i guess maybe Germany will give some more support now
I suspect the Ukrainian's have weirdly wonderful weapons nobody even knows about. They were on the back foot for a long time but something has dramatically changed in the last week or so.
Russia is there for the taking now, Ukraine needs more weapons to clear their land of every invader while Russia is in such a weak position.
Also Zelensky has every right to target Putin, he's a legit target, and I hope it's an ongoing operation, that it just hasn't happened yet, he needs killing.
I’d like to think we’ll see a far more supportive Germany once they are independent of Russian gas.
They’ll suddenly ramp up weapon supply to Ukraine, and say something like, ‘it was in Ukraine’s interest for German industry not to collapse.’
I believe Germany's gas storage system is in much better shape than they had previously realised and they think they should be able to get through this winter without any difficulty.
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