Former Italian Prime Minister: With US control over pipelines, the EU will buy gas from Russia.

Former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi believes that Russian gas supplies to European countries could resume if the United States holds a certain stake in the gas pipelines.

Prodi is convinced that once American financial institutions take a stake in the pipelines, Russian gas will once again flow unimpeded to Europe. However, Europe will be forced to purchase this gas, as EU countries will already be involved in the project.

Former Prime Minister of Italy:

This is exactly how it will all end—you'll see for yourself how events unfold. At least, today it seems to me that this is Trump's intention.

Meanwhile, European Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen recently stated that the EU should prepare for prolonged "energy shocks" because the United States will physically be unable to fully meet Europe's gas needs. However, despite these warnings, European authorities remain prone to irrational actions and would rather force their citizens to starve and walk than admit the error of rashly abandoning Russian energy supplies.

Earlier, the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung lamented that the European Union is gradually abandoning further support for Ukraine in favor of resuming energy cooperation with Russia. Within the union, voices are increasingly being heard considering at least a partial resumption of energy relations with Russia.

Comments

[TermNachTer]

If the mattress makers buy Nord Stream, or at least become shareholders, it won't be Russian (totalitarian) gas, but American (democratic). They'll still have to buy it, just with an American markup. And who's the idiot after that?

[commbatant]

Quote: TermNachTER

If the mattress makers buy Nord Stream, or at least become shareholders, it won't be Russian (totalitarian) gas, but American (democratic). They'll still have to buy it, just with an American markup. And who's the idiot after that?

The EU's "orphans" have been brazenly deceived once again by the Anglo-Saxons. If "American" gas starts flowing into the EU through pipelines, then perhaps Britain will return to the EU. If the EU starts acting up, then the Strait of Hormuz will open for the "second coming"...
But a "joint American-Russian holding company" is only possible after the "Ukrainian issue" is resolved. Russian Jews are more cunning and evil than American and Israeli ones, so the Americans won't be able to deceive the Kremlin.

[fruc]

Romano Prodi believes that Russian gas supplies to European countries can resume under the condition

Let them keep their terms to themselves and shut up. They've already messed things up; let them look for oil and gas elsewhere.

[TermNachTer]

There's been talk for a while about some American businessman wanting to get involved in Nord Stream. Even the amounts he's willing to invest have been mentioned. The Banderland issue will still have to be negotiated; it's already becoming a real nuisance for Trump. But for now, it remains a bargaining chip with Moscow.

[guest]

Quote: commbatant

If "American" gas starts flowing into the EU through pipelines, then maybe Britain will return to the EU again.

Do we need this?

[commbatant]

Quote: guest

Do we need this?

Not at all. But the US would likely offer our senior comrades the exclusive use of our Baltic gas in exchange for a partial lifting of sanctions. Ours would agree, and the EU's economy and military-industrial complex would take on a new lease of life...
If our forces don't agree, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will destroy our ports and oil refineries in the European part of the Russian Federation, and the US will scold the Ukrainian Armed Forces for this...

[TermNachTer]

Do you consider mattress makers altruists? Gay Europeans will pay exorbitant prices for this gas, just like for liquefied gas. No one will do any charity work.

[commbatant]

Quote: TermNachTER

Do you consider mattress makers to be altruists?

Not at all. Where did I write about this?

[TermNachTer]

"The EU's military-industrial complex will also be given a new lease of life... there's nowhere for it to come from. The US doesn't need competitors. Furthermore, the lack of cheap energy and raw materials makes the European economy uncompetitive. And they understand this—BASF built a plant in China for €8,7 billion. But it will soon close its European plant.

[commbatant]

Quote: TermNachTER

"The EU's military-industrial complex will also take on a new look... there's nowhere for new colors to come from. The US doesn't need competitors.

The military-industrial complex is a different matter. The US isn't going to fight the Russians; the EU is needed for that... The "good" British will tell the EU how and with what to fight the Russians...

[TermNachTer]

With a few exceptions, the EU's military-industrial complex is a direct competitor and will therefore be destroyed. However, no significant effort will be required; the pace of deindustrialization in Europe is simply Stakhanovite.

[commbatant]

Quote: TermNachTER

With the exception of a few positions, the EU military-industrial complex is a direct competitor to the military-industrial complex and will therefore be destroyed.

Your thoughts are logical, but the mess in the Middle East won't end anytime soon, and until then, the "orphans" from the Ukrainian Armed Forces have to fight somehow...

[TermNachTer]

Trump is interested in orphans from the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a bargaining chip with the WFP. When a consensus is reached, Donnie will say something like: "The sheriff doesn't care about black people's problems." And that could happen pretty soon, but the fight for a new world order will last for years.

[bayard]

Quote: guest

Do we need this?

Not !
And we don’t need Russian gas to go to Europe either.
Russia sells too many of its resources, while receiving nothing from its buyers except shredded paper and computer numbers. Russia doesn't need so much empty foreign currency, not backed by goods. And it doesn't need euros at all. Well, we don't trade with the Europeans. They don't sell us industrial equipment. Which means they won't see our gas.
Gas could be used to produce mineral fertilizers, which are easier to store and transport, are needed by everyone, and solve the global food problem. We could develop our own glass industry (very energy-intensive) and sell the finished product. But feeding our sworn enemies who want us dead... unacceptable .
For their crimes they are obliged to:
- to starve,
- to freeze,
- do not have energy-intensive production,
- fuel for military equipment and transport,
- the ability to produce weapons and ammunition against us.
But at the same time they can fully indulge in their perversions, marry dolls and lampshades.

[olboop]

Russia does not need so much empty foreign currency, not backed by commodity reserves.

I already wrote on VO earlier:
"Where then will we get the foreign currency to pay for our citizens' trips abroad? According to the Association of Tour Operators, Russian tourists will have spent approximately $57 billion abroad in 2025."
And these are just organized tourists. How many more are there who travel independently?
And of course, we have to buy things abroad that we don't have. Like lemons/oranges, coffee/cocoa. At the same time, I don't understand why we need a huge selection of foreign wine on store shelves.
We also need some industrial materials. For example, we don't have enough copper.

[bayard]

Quote: olbop

"Where then can we get the currency to pay for our citizens' trips abroad?

They should spend less time abroad. These are different times - the country is at war, and they are wasting money on entertainment.

Quote: olbop

And these are just organized tourists. How many more are there who travel independently?

Too much freedom in wartime. If they don't want to limit themselves, the state should help. Or travel to places where dollars and euros are not needed.

Quote: olbop

The same lemons/oranges, coffee/cocoa.

You can trade in national currencies through swap exchange.

Quote: olbop

There is not enough copper of our own.

Copper deposits have been discovered in Southern Siberia, large ones. We need to develop our own or buy it in yuan—we have a trade surplus with China.

Quote: olbop

Why do we need a huge selection of foreign wine on store shelves?

We're a northern country, and we don't have enough of our own. We need to change our consumption culture or move to balanced trading through swaps. It's time to stop playing "free trade" in the enemy's currency and switch to trading in national or regional currencies when the macro-regions are ready. But Europe and England must be excluded from Russia's trade turnover. Moreover, we need to impose our own sanctions against them, including secondary sanctions against stubborn border states.
But to do this and have enough "economic lifeblood" (money) for its normal functioning, it is necessary to restore to the Russian state the most important and fundamental form of sovereignty—financial sovereignty. There should be no central bank in Russia. Only a State Bank and Treasury subordinate to the Minister of Finance, the government, and the president. Power must be consolidated, not divided. Enough of this economic and political schizophrenia.

[TermNachTer]

I believe that everything is moving towards a rigid vertical power structure, perhaps not as quickly as we would like.

[olboop]

They should spend less time abroad. These are different times - the country is at war, and they are wasting money on entertainment.

This is surprising, to put it mildly. Perhaps we should set the dollar (and other currencies, respectively) exchange rate at 200 rubles for citizens?

[bayard]

Don't give them any hints, or they'll crash the ruble to that level. They'll say it's "at the request of the working people."
And this will immediately affect prices.

[guest]

Quote: olbop

Where then can we get the currency to pay for our citizens' trips abroad?

This is a problem for those citizens who travel abroad.

[Nemchinov Vl]

Quote: commbatant

...therefore, the Americans will not be able to deceive the Kremlin.

really?!
We managed to bend our whole lives so that later the government, even its own turbo-patriots, could calm down with the motto, "We were deceived," and now it won't work?! funny .

Former Prime Minister of Italy: under US control over the pipes The EU will buy gas from RF

Surely these people too will open their eyes?, so to speak - "and they were deceived" (!), and it turns out "toxic not GAZ itself and where it was obtained from" ...?!
So, it seems that the Germans will also understand why, and to whose advantage, they are destroying their high-tech products (including mechanical engineering !), losing competitiveness due to artificially inflated costs??? Oh, oh, oh...
And if the same gas is through the same pipes, they will order (indicate !!), buy even with a markup, but already don't dare call him "toxic", it will become much more democratic (although its price will no longer allow the industry to return to the competitiveness of American goods (due to more cost of production) ...

[Krasnoyarsk]

Quote: TermNachTER

If the mattress makers buy Nord Stream or at least become shareholders,

Since it so happens that energy resources, and in this case gas, have become a political issue, I would like to refuse to sell gas to Europe. But only after Donya buys the pipeline.
They say, well, we don’t have any extra volumes, all the gas has gone to Turkey, China and Asia.

[Nemchinov Vl]

Quote: Krasnoyarsk

Since it so happens that energy resources, and in this case gas, have become a political issue, I would like to refuse to sell gas to Europe. But only after Donya buys the pipeline.

ahah You seem to have a diametrically opposed vision of the "prospects" of trading raw materials with your own government!!! but you will be consoled with the phrase - "we were deceived" !!

For example, uv. Vitaly. still believes that -

Quote: bayard

...You can develop your own glass industry (very energy-intensive) and sell the finished product.

, but stubbornly refuses to notice that between what the leader “declares” as his intentions, and between what actions are carried out by his clique (obviously not without his knowledge!), there lies not just an abyss, but a real chasm !!!.
He exclaimed that the USSR only produced galoshes and was not engaged in the development of industrial technology, but essentially brought the country to "dependence on the oil and gas needle" raised to the power of !!*, while losing ITS own civil aircraft industry, and shipbuilding (including for the Navy!), and machine tool manufacturing, and much more... (!).
And "He did not allow the retirement age to be raised while he was president. !!"...

...

[bayard]

Quote: Vl Nemchinov

He exclaimed that the USSR only produced galoshes and was not engaged in the development of industrial technology, but essentially brought the country to "dependence on the oil and gas needle" raised to the power of !!*, while losing ITS own civil aircraft industry, and shipbuilding (including for the Navy!), and machine tool manufacturing, and much more... (!).
And he did not allow the retirement age to be raised while he was president!!

But you know the answer: "It's different." And that Gazprom is a national treasure, albeit without naming that nation.

[TermNachTer]

Theoretically, it's possible, but perhaps not such a strict option. You could force your European (mattress) partners to choose: there's a certain amount of gas, it could go to Europe or to China. If you want to get it, pay more than the Chinese.

[credo]

...You'll still have to buy it, just with an American markup))) and who's the idiot after that?)))

I can't understand the European political elite; they were planning to completely abandon Russian gas by 2027 and buy gas from somewhere else, but not from Russia.
What's changed in the "Garden of Eden"? Can anyone force them to buy Russian gas from the US?

[commbatant]

Quote: credo

Can anyone force them to buy Russian gas from the US?

So yes, if LNG from the US goes to Asia (prices are higher there), and there is no other option, for example, Qatari...

[fruc]

commbatant
and there won't be another one, for example Qatari.

Italy could import gas and oil from Africa, let it negotiate there.

[commbatant]

Quote: frruc

Italy could import gas and oil from Africa, let it negotiate there.

The key phrase is "could." But the economic world is structured such that pipeline transport will always be cheaper than sea transport.

[fruc]

commbatant
Pipeline transport will always be cheaper than sea transport.

They have plenty of money and can afford maritime traffic. But at least they won't be dependent on Russia.

[commbatant]

Quote: frruc

They have plenty of money and can afford maritime traffic. But at least they won't be dependent on Russia.

Do Italians have a lot of money? No one in the EU has a lot of money. Besides, they'll replace their dependence on Russia with Algeria, for example. What's the point?

[fruc]

commbatant
....what's the point?

Their gas contains more free molecules. Besides, Algeria might give them a discount. There are other gas sellers there, too.

[guest]

Quote: commbatant

In the EU, no one has a lot of money.

And for Zelensky they always have money.

[commbatant]

Quote: guest

And for Zelensky they always have money.

They pay him so they don't have to fight themselves. They were going to give 90 billion euros for two years of war, so in 2028 they will either have to pay Zelensky again or go to war themselves.

[Nemchinov Vl]

Quote: credo

What's changed in the "Garden of Eden"? Can anyone force them to buy Russian gas from the US?

Yes, indeed. Easy. For example, under the mere threat of introducing customs duties (last year), Trump has already managed to bend the EU to purchase weapons from the American military-industrial complex (and soybeans) in volumes of at least 750 (and 600) million euros, respectively, to calm down and sign agreements on "mutual cooperation" !!! And, led by Ursula, the EU meekly swallowed it all and agreed to Trump’s conditions (!).

You can call Trump an impulsive idiot and a narcissistic schizophrenic as much as you like, but he, unlike those who lead our country, acts in the interests of (at least industry) of their country, while suppressing their external competitors!!! Fact !!

[TermNachTer]

The Strait of Hormuz happened, from where they received a significant portion of their LNG. To refuse Russian gas now would be to kill Europe. Although, the Frankenstein currently lurking in Europe is something else entirely. And no one was refusing—a week ago, an LNG tanker from Russia arrived in Saint-Nazaire.

[salawat1980]

They won't buy Nord Stream and its infrastructure. They'll bankrupt Nord Stream and all of Gazprom's infrastructure and take it for themselves. That was the original plan. America then plans to buy gas from us at its own price and sell it at a reasonable markup, as mentioned above.

[Toljna935]

It's incomprehensible! Why sell energy resources to our enemies and foes? Why do our "strategists" think the US is our partner and comrade? Wasn't it enough for you to have Dropshot and other plans that stretched our country beyond its physical limits? Wasn't it enough for you to have traitors and idiots concerned only with personal power? Wasn't it enough for you that your so-called Warsaw Treaty friends, some trotting, some galloping, rushed into the NATO fold, their pants rolled up? Wasn't it enough for you that the USSR helped Hitler get back on his feet economically and militarily and supplied him with strategic goods until June 22, 1941? Wasn't it enough for you that the USSR and Russia paid off their debts to the US for Lend-Lease and other such things until the end of the millennium? Well, don't be idiots and mistake smiles, grimaces, and mannerisms for something beneficial for our country and our people. We must remember the words of one Russian tsarist general: the only thing worse than war with the Anglo-Saxons is friendship with them.

[faiver]

Isn't it enough for you that the USSR helped Hitler get back on his feet economically and militarily and supplied strategic goods to Hitler until June 22, 1941? Isn't it enough for you that until the end of the millennium the USSR and the Russian Federation paid their debts to the US for Lend-Lease?

- Actually, it wasn't the USSR that supplied strategic goods to Hitler, but Hitler who supplied them to the USSR. The USSR didn't pay for Lend-Lease until 1972, and after that, the combined payment by the USSR and Russia amounted to just over seven hundred million dollars, which was only 7% of the total amount of goods and materials supplied to us under Lend-Lease, at 40s prices.

[Hunter 2]

So what's the news? The Americans have been trying to gain control of the Nord Stream pipelines for two years now. It's perfectly logical to sell them to them. Let them butt heads with the Europeans... paying for American services on top of the price of gas!

[commbatant]

Quote: Hunter 2

It's actually quite logical to sell them to them. Let them butt heads with the Europeans... paying for American services on top of the gas price!

Not at all. It would be logical to sell three pipelines and turn the fourth one over to the Kaliningrad region. Simultaneously, the Kaliningrad region would begin construction of a two-unit MAES similar to what ROSATOM is building in Uzbekistan. This would ensure energy security for Russia's Baltic ex-slave.

[Yura]

Quote: Hunter 2

Let them butt the gay Europeans... paying for American services in addition to the price of gas!

On the one hand, yes, that's fine, but on the other hand, by sitting on the fence, they, just like Europe, can impose conditions on Russia that are absolutely unacceptable. On this issue, I doubt it's worth doing business with the Americans at all.

[salawat1980]

They want them almost for free. They also want gas almost for free.

[Nemchinov Vl]

Quote: Hunter 2

So what's the news? The Americans have been trying to gain control of the Nord Stream pipelines for two years now. It's perfectly logical to sell them to them. Let them butt heads with the Europeans... paying for American services on top of the price of gas!

Well, how can I tell you, Alexey...?!
For example, you can afford to give up YOUR property (house, car, garage, apartment, dacha), even your wife, and give it all to your neighbors to manage (or even sometimes to enemies !), at their own discretion?!

[Radio]

And Russia will dictate the gas price. The US won't care; the European serfs will buy it anyway.

[faiver]

The United States will dictate the price, both for Russia and the EU...

[Ovsigovets]

Nope...they have no leverage...the gas isn't flowing right now, and even if they buy a joint venture, nothing will change for us...it hasn't been flowing and won't be flowing...but they need to recoup their investment after spending...they won't have any alternative to fill it with))))) Don't put the cart before the horse...you can't conceive children with empty stomachs))))

[Brturin]

Quote: Ovsigovets

but after spending money they need to recoup their investment

It's not about money, it's about control. Trump's strategy, or rather that of those behind him, is to control all energy flows for the states—Venezuela, Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and everywhere else. Naturally, this includes gas flows—the Northern, Bulgarian (formerly Southern), and so on. And only the states should decide who to sell to and how much... And then, like in the old movie, whoever isn't with us (who doesn't take our "tickets" (don't want to pay duties, etc.)—will "turn off the gas" or, conversely, prevent supplies, and the buyer will be given another source from their own lordly shoulder—that's the new great America....
On the other hand, the US understands that they don't have much gas, and that actively selling it abroad drives up prices in the US... They need other sources under their control to keep prices in the US competitive, while at the same time depriving others of that competitiveness... and the pipeline is precisely an instrument of control, and to ensure there is no other way, sanctions are imposed on all LNG projects in Russia, and no one is even talking about lifting them.

[faiver]

five points, everything is as correct as two and two...

[Ovsigovets]

So, Europe will buy from China or India with long logistics, BUT at a higher price... The SP pipeline is not actually a control element, there is no gas in the pipeline and there won't be... The pipeline is just a means of delivery... We should remember this and this should be firmly conveyed to the mattresses... They just started showing off - bam and the pipeline is empty again, as it is now... Just don't play the game with the mattresses the way they want, but play the way we want

[faiver]

but after spending money they need to recoup their investment

This isn't a requirement. Don't forget, they print their own toad skins with portraits of dead presidents. From what I've read, pipeline restoration is estimated at around half a billion dollars, plus or minus. That's not a lot of money for Russia, and essentially pennies for the US.

[Ovsigovets]

and yet...we are not supplying at the moment and the joint venture is dead for us...they can of course cut it off and not download anything on it...their right...we have nothing to lose)))) "what is dead cannot die" (C)

[commbatant]

Quote: Radio

And Russia will dictate the gas price. The US won't care; the European serfs will buy it anyway.

Quite the opposite: the US itself wants to dictate the EU's price for Russian gas. Then the US will move on to the Turkish Stream pipeline, so the Turks, out of spite, decided to build a nuclear power plant on their own to reduce their dependence on Russian gas due to the potential for future upheaval.

[faridg7]

To dictate the price, you need to be able to sell gas to more than one destination. How can you dictate if the field has a pipeline to Europe? It's either there or nowhere. If the field had several pipelines to different regions, then you could hold an auction for the right to keep the valve open.

[Krasnoyarsk]

Quote: Radio

And Russia will dictate the price of gas.

Yeah, I already dictated it. The cheapest gas for everyone is Russian. Even though producing it, given the climate, is more expensive than in any other country in the world.

[HAM]

It's so simple: we buy gas from Russia if we want, or we don't if we don't... I don't know what the Kremlin thinks, but Europe needs to be offered a chance to "walk around the market." I think it's high time to "hit a tabletop," and there are plenty of people around the world who want gas, besides Europe.

[Xenon]

Europe needs to be offered a "market tour"

It's unlikely that this will happen to our common people. I'll even kiss their hands if they buy our gas! Ah, it's just a shame Comrade Stalin isn't here.

[Ivan№One]

Russian gas supplies to European countries may resume under the condition

Has the Italian not heard Samoy's recent statement that it's time for us to stop selling gas to unfriendly European countries? (Even before they stop buying)

Or are they hoping he'll change his mind?

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: Ivan№One

The Italian did not hear the recent statement of the Samoy

This is just "thinking out loud".
Game for raising.

[Krasnoyarsk]

Quote: Ivan№One

Has the Italian not heard Samoy's recent statement that it's time for us to stop selling gas to unfriendly European countries? (Even before they stop buying)

Maybe it's time for us to get married, what do you think? Joyfully - Yes, yes, darling! Five years have passed, but I still haven't gotten married. With a sigh - yes, that happens.

[Zyablicev43]

Explain to the obtuse: why should Russian hydrocarbons be cheap? Is it to boost the economies of the European Union? Is it for Western defense industry enterprises? Is it so that shells and missiles are cheaper and more can be produced? Is it Russian oil for Hungary, with subsequent diesel supplies to Ukraine? Is it the thousands of dead Russian soldiers? Soon we will celebrate another anniversary of our Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Our fallen grandfathers won't turn over in their graves from what these traders are doing to their grandchildren. Doesn't money stink? It does. Of blood.

[Alexander X]

Selling gas to Europe is a way to make money. There's never enough of it. But Europe, for the most part, is made up of rabid Russophobes who, having hired Ukrainian PMCs, wage war against Russia, supplying these PMCs with weapons and pumping money into them. Selling gas to enemies is, at the very least, short-sighted...
So is it worth waiting impatiently for the joint venture to be bought by the Yankees?

[nikvp]

Sell ​​the pipe, don't give gas.

[Wratch]

Almost like Trotsky)) but the idea is great!

[yuriy55]

With US control over pipelines, the EU will buy gas from Russia.

First, it is necessary to resolve the issue of frozen Russian assets and the 19+ sanctions packages that the EU has managed to generate over the years.
Russia has one intact pipeline left, which does not require any American participation.
Regarding the three blown-up pipelines, there's a proposal to repair them at American (European) expense and put them back into operation on a shared-equity basis, with the stipulation of ceasing to sponsor the Nazi regime in Kyiv. And the supplier should determine the price...

[Personal opinion]

Quote: yuriy55

First, the issue of frozen Russian assets needs to be resolved.

They beat us to it. What kind of gas supply to Europe can the Kremlin dream of without at least this minimum preliminary condition?

[rocket757]

What's wrong with that... ordinary cynicism and no honor or conscience...

[Polak_Polak]

Teraz urzedniki jewropy niech ubiorą wory pokutne i jada do Prezydenta Putina prosić i wybaczenie i sprzedaż gazu i ropy!

[Vasyan1971]

Prodi is convinced that once American financial funds take up positions in gas pipelines, Russian gas will once again flow unhindered to Europe.

And this, of course, is a disgrace.
No, not so.
B A S K V A R!!!
And the complete professional incompetence of the current authorities of Gayropia...

[salawat1980]

Unfortunately, this is exactly how it was planned and has been implemented since at least 2021. Remember how gas prices soared in the fall of 2021, when Europe effectively abandoned its previous contracts.

[isv000]

It's hard to imagine Iran giving up even one share to the Americans. Russia? Easy!
While the time has come to deprive the EU of our resources, we are discussing the very possibility of handing over pipelines to them.

[Word]

God forbid, if VVP hands over energy flows to Pindostan, we will automatically lose; the word sovereignty will become taboo, like in the African colonies.

[Mikhail3]

Russian gas supplies to European countries may resume provided that the United States has a certain share in the gas pipelines.

One question: why do we need this? We have buyers outside the EU, and they are capable of choosing everything we produce. WHY should we pump money into a geopolitical adversary? I'm referring, of course, to the US. Why should we give the US a share? There's nothing beneficial for us in this. China, and Asia in general, will swallow up our gas supplies without any intermediaries.
I don't know what our authorities think, but for me, feeding the US on our resource is treason...

[faiver]

So we still supply gas and oil to Europe, and for our government, money has no smell...

[Mikhail3]

We supply. And, of course, we will. It's only a question of price. We supply at market prices. Which strangle Europe like a ru-mal strangles Indian thugs. Once a ru-mal is around your neck, it's impossible to escape...

[Gado]

I don't understand why this utter nonsense is being broadcast yet again?! Who's going to give the Yankees access to the pipelines, Russia? If that happens, I'll give up on the sanity of the Russian leadership!