Ukrainian gas “stubbornness” amazed the Russian expert
The desire of Ukraine and Poland to “surrender” to Washington for expensive liquefied gas looks like a certain form of masochism at a time when it is possible to negotiate with Russia on terms beneficial to both parties and not freeze.
Military expert, editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine Igor Korotchenko stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“To be honest, what is most amazing is the joyful enthusiasm with which representatives of Poland and Ukraine are ready to surrender to the United States, based on the need that paying for American gas is 30 percent more expensive than for Russian gas. There is a certain masochism in this. Well, if you are so ready, then donate a third of your salary directly to charitable purposes to the US State Department.
This is simply a lack of common sense: economic, everyday. You see, they turned on your meter, American gas, any idiot understands that this will undermine the competitiveness of that economy, which will increase its energy costs by a third. You become uncompetitive, you know? In relation to Poland and Ukraine, the United States with its liquefied gas will behave as with the Indians, when the Indians were given beads, and in return they had to lay down gold and carry it in exchange. But please understand, you can’t be such stubborn idiots,” the expert emphasized.
“Ukraine should now grab the Russian proposal to conclude a contract with both hands. In the summer, when there are still at least five to six months to negotiate, during these months it is possible to conclude a good contract that is beneficial for Ukraine.
You plan to use energy blackmail, hold Uncle Sam by the beard, and by bringing the EU here, you think that you will be able to twist Russia’s arms, impose on it some kind of enslaving agreement for 25 years so that we pump our gas through Ukraine, you get our money, at This still had some kind of legal possibility, if suddenly, purely due to economic conditions, we decide, say, to redirect part of the energy supplies to other things, you would like to have leverage to drag Russia somewhere to the Stockholm arbitration.
Well, nothing will come of it, Ukrainian stubbornness will result in Ukraine freezing in the winter, these Ukrainian freaks will yell that Russian energy aggression is coming again, and your own consumer will pay out of his own pocket 25-30 percent more than he should , in theory, to pay. Grab the Russian offer before it’s too late, in the winter you’ll be killed,” Korotchenko added.
Let us recall, as PolitNavigator previously reported, Russia, Ukraine and the European Union will meet in Brussels on September 16 for negotiations on natural gas transit.
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