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>>/45246/ > - First of all it was due to the EU's own "green" faggotry: shutting down coal, fuel, and even nuclear plants This didn't happen this year. EU had that politics for years. The most recent closure of nuclear power plant happened in Germany in 2017, but most of them in early 2010s. EU policies are surely main reason of energy crisis in long-term period, but I talk about short-term (i.e. current unexpected prices rise). > - Euro zone economic activity is picking up after flu hysteria, driving demand > - Winter is coming: countries (including gas transit partners) are storing reserves In 2018 there were no coronavirus, and economic activity was better than today, and winter still happened. > NS2 > nobody can claim that Russia is not in her right to limit business Yes, it perfectly reasonable for Russia to use this situation, and it is normal. But it is mostly EU fault that they got into that situation, because it is goal of foreign politics to prevent such crisises. They've had different choices, 1) stop NS2 completely and force Russia to continue normal operations as before (Russia also needs EU as market), also trying to get alternative sources 2) Don't oppose NS2 and go peacefully with Russia - in that case it would be already working. But EU decided to get worst combination of two choices, first trying to confront Russia on it, then giving up but not completely. > Also Russia does not have a monopoly on EU gas, what are you saying? Russia is main source of gas import for half of RU. Second one is Norway, but looks like they can't fill entire demand even if they'd want. So Russia may be not single source, but source with biggest influence. Promised LNG alternative still not happen. > In another thread you posted links to The grauniad and Times of Moscow... are those you kind of sources? For English ones I often google source before posting, because most of Russian sources aren't translated properly, and google translate is shit. Biggest English-language source for Russian news is RT, but they often ignore some local happenings. TASS has English version, but their reporting are mostly very short and "official", they rarely include videos or such. I don't read these sites for Russian news anyway. I understand your questiong though, because I know about biases of these sources. > It is jarring seeing Russians themselves quote western (or "westernist") pamphlets as if their word were authoritative It depends on context, because some news reporting are ok even in very biased sources. At least they look ok for me in such situations. Personally I don't like both "viewpoints" (but I'm not neutral though), because modern western one becames more and more horrible each year (with all that sjw/lgbtblm++/refugees shit), and Russian one is often contradicts with reality that I can see every day. > Asia (China, later maybe India) should probably be Russia main energy focus anyway: growing market, > friendly relations China is already a target of gas export, although they aren't that profitable. Gazprom sells gas into China at much less price (even cheaper than Belarus got): https://www.interfax.ru/business/756994 (Russian-language source, sorry). Chinese are not that "friendly" as they seem, they always seriously manipulate for own profits. Compared to EU situation, Russia doesn't have any means to protect own interests there, because EU much weaker politically. There are plenty of situations where China use Russian resources without real mutual benefits, like with wood exports. So global choices are "stay with west and enjoy political shit" or "stay with China and enjoy economical exploitation". Sadly, independent Russia without any those shit is not a choice. Russian-Indian relations aren't too good, looks like India is more US-oriented now. China is also doesn't like India much, and would oppose.