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Originally Posted by MrFirst
So what? It doesn't change anything in my words.
It's a trade. For example, Russia for several years tries to join the World Trade Organization. And when the US blocks it if anything is not up to "American standards" noone cries though this much more looks like pure blackmail and manipulation. If you want to avoid the "energy blackmail" you should use coal or wood or dried dung instead of gas - and that's all, but not to demand low prices like Ukraine did, or try to get any political benefits pointing that the gas seller is a kind of bad guy.
Maybe this is blackmail but this is the same language that USA speaks to Russia.
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I am not sure that membership in WTO is closed by USA and also I heard it so many times that Russia don't need WTO that I almost believe it.
The second part of your post clearly shows the way you prefer to do business. My way or the highway. Let's don't mix cutlets and flies together- as Russians say. If Russia wants to do business by selling gas - sure go right ahead. it is a legitimate issue here. If all that Russia seek is to create a a rift between Western Europe and Eastern Europe and also between these 2 parts of the Western World - it is a wrong policy. The more Russia will pressure Germans and show it's unstable behavior the more Western Europe will fill safe being closer to the USA. And by the way - no one in Western Europe demands lower gas prices. What people want and rather expect in any trade with anybody to have a delivery of things they are paying for - without additional interference.
With Czechs for example. Russian Chief of general stuff called on the Czech ambassador to come and see him in
exactly on the anniversary of Russian invasion in 1968. He called him to deliver a "friendly message" don't build American radar or else.... Given the date it is hardly difficult to understand what is behind this meeting.
I am too old not to believe that anything that comes from Putin nowadays is done without a political massage behind it in a very fine print. So gas is only the tip of the iceberg. The real massage is: Russia wants to divide and conquerer. This is why Putin tries to divide Western countries and like you just did in your previous post - stating that West is not USA. Yes it is and our massage should be united with all western world.