*** Official Putin Started Shootin' Thread ***

[Poopadoop]

Was this the same pipeline that Russia "shut down for maintenance" then? In that case, yeah whatever, I may be coming around to the idea that someone named Igor "accidentally" blew it up in several places.

I have heard too the West is scrambling to buy its gas from other places, so destroying the pipline could be a different message whoever did it. Either the West ("you're fucked Putin we're never buying your gas again") or the Russians ("look, a dead cat"). Dunno. Not sure why I should care either tbh.

Is there a reason why it matters who did it and why in the bigger scheme of things, apart from giving Ong a chance to troll people? (the first part of that q. is serious, not the second)

[OngBonga]

The Chinese can't make up for all the sales Russia used to have to Europe.

Only because the pipeline infrastructure isn't in place. China has the appetite for it, just not the means to receive it in the quantity Europe does. That's gonna change, they're already expanding the pipeline network from Siberia to China.

Russia has customers. Pipeline capacity is the problem.