> mbs: I could knock over a 7-11. That doesn't make it 'non-economic.'
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> If I made a habit of doing it successfully, that's a different story.
> The
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> Russians have not shut down the pipeline.
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> pronouncements by the Kremlin that the
> clearly-profitable BTC pipeline was "un-economic" the Kremlin has, in
> fact, MADE that pipeline un-economic by showing they can and will shut
> it down whenever they feel like it.
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> I assume you mean those facts.
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> "All the oil pipeline talk is rubbish" - eh?
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> What pipeline talk, exactly would that be? The Kremlin has said a lot
> of things about that pipeline that were clearly rubbish, but they
> contradict other things people have said about the same pipeline. So
> is everything anyone says about the BTC pipeline rubbish? Is oil no
> longer a strategic asset in your world? Is it your contention that oil
> had nothing at all to do with this conflict? Because it's odd, the
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> mbs: that is my contention, notwithstanding the general
> world-historical
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> importance of oil. It's really about the U.S./NATO encroaching on the
> frontiers.
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