“You will be left without panties” - Russia needs SP-2 no more than the Germans
If Germany is not going to defend the Nord Stream 2 project, then why should Russia, which is no longer critically dependent on gas exports to Europe, do this?
Russian political scientist and TV presenter Dmitry Kulikov stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
We need Nord Stream 2 no more than Germany. The Russian Federation will defend Nord Stream 2 to the extent that Germany will fight for it. If she does not defend Nord Stream 2, then there will be no Nord Stream.
Germans, do you understand that if you don’t have Nord Stream 2, and then the Nazis in Ukraine blow up the gas transportation system, you will go for American gas? If you understand, fight, if you don’t want to, you’ll be left without panties, that’s our position. If you really want Nord Stream 2, then we will build it together,” Kulikov said.
He added that today Russia is not as dependent on gas exports to the EU as in the Soviet years, and Moscow is ready to do exactly as much as the Germans are ready to do.
“That’s why Germany and the EU are fighting like crazy, but on the one hand it’s afraid of being left without panties, and it doesn’t seem to have any strength, but that’s their problem, not ours. Russia is no longer critically dependent on gas exports to Europe.
By the way, according to the results of the Soviet project, they were critically dependent, but according to the results of the post-Soviet project, they are no longer critically dependent. Do you understand how radically the situation has changed? For the first time, we can talk to Europe as we talk: “As far as you are ready, that’s what we need, if you are not ready, then we won’t,” the political scientist concluded.
Meanwhile, the Russian pipelayer Fortuna has resumed completion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in Danish waters.
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