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[–] 75 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

Good thing Europe has a good, reliable, not-blowed-up natural gas pipeline from—

—hold up, we're receiving some new information.

o no cri

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  • [–] 63 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Watching Europe absolutely destroy itself in service of their American overlords is incredibly satisfying

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  • [–] 47 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    There has to be a limit to what Europeans will take, right? This is great news for US exporters who are selling LNG at a premium in Europe, yet Europeans just keep fucking taking it.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    There has to be a limit to what Europeans will take, right? This is great news for US exporters who are selling LNG at a premium in Europe,

    I legitimately hate this line, like why are we pretending as if Europe doesn’t benefit from US imperialism?

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago

    Europe as a whole benefits from U.S. imperialism, but look at it from the perspective of working Europeans on the ground. Their leaders are telling them they aren't doing imperialism, so the runoff benefits they get are not sold to them as part of the deal. Then those runoff benefits keep getting eaten up by price hikes like this, which are directly tied to the war.

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, I'm not sure that US exporters have the capacity to fill the gap.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That's what the price mechanism is for; if there's a shortage, just keep jacking up the price. 45% might be the beginning.

    Sure it'll collapse the economy, but for a short while it will generate incredible profits so who cares?

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    There has to be a limit to what Europeans will take, right?

    You would be surprised. If their behavior toward Ukraine is any indication, you shouldn't expect anything other than to see a doubling down on pro-US, pro-Israel policies, no matter how much it harms Europeans.

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  • [–] 40 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    The price of heating oil literally doubled overnight here. Petrol prices have already started to be marked up too. I expect another surge in Electricity costs like after Nordstream, where the price quadrupled briefly.

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  • [–] [S] 33 points 6 months ago

    I expect it's going to get a lot worse in the coming weeks. It looks like a lot of energy producing infrastructure is being hit right now across the Middle East. Once the supply collapses, there's really nowhere to fill the gap from. And even if Europe went to Russia to beg, it's not a given that Russia would agree at this point.

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  • [–] 39 points 6 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 32 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Kind of wishing this had happened back in Christmas so some of those fascists can turn into popsicles and maybe knock it off and criticize Israel for starting this

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  • [–] 26 points 6 months ago

    Europe can go back to using steam trains and horses for transportation.

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    [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    Welp, time to invest in "warm banks" stonks-down

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago*

    At this points it's not even electric bogaloo, it's just St Vitus dance.

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