Comments by "robheusd" (@robheusd) on "Al Jazeera English" channel.

Qatar and the US have dreamt about providing Qatar gas by pipeline to europe. They only miscalculated that the pipeline needs to pass over Syria, and the Syria government said no. That is why gulf countries, the US and Europe invested heavily in Syrian rebel groups that wanted to topple the Syrian government and were inactive against IS which nearly reached Damascus. Only with the help of Russia they could drive the terrorost groups back and survived....
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Russia does not use gas delivery for political reasons, it's the US that does that by blocking the Nordstream. Russia's gas deliveries have been consistent throughout all of the cold warm even during the Cuba missile crisis. Only Ukrain is a problem, because they did not pay for gasdeliveries and siphoned off russian gas meant for transit to Europe, that is why Russia in cooperation with Germany built the Nordstream pipelie to bypass the Ukrain.
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And as an additional comment: the irony of the situation will be that - as there is a world wide gas shortage - the deliveries of LNG from e.g. Qatar will produce a gap in the world gas supply, which will immediately lead to Russia filling up that gap with production of more LNG to other countries, just that the logistic chain for gas deliveries will get longer and more expensive and with additional CO2 emissions.... In the end, nobody benefits from that.
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No, they are mostly locals, trained and equipped with russian help.
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While ethiopians of different ethnics fight against each other and blame the old colonizers for dividing their country in disrepect of etnicity of people, the new colonizers come in and grab the fertile lands for export companies, and leave the ethiopian people without land and without job security etc. So the people of ethiopia better unite before all their land gets grabbed, and leave ethiopian people without land and without income. Fighting along ethnic lines is never gonna bring a solution it only divides people, you better unite for same civil rights for all ethnic groups and equal representation in government and so forth. Secessionist policies, like the Somali's or Eritrea did, only brought war, loss of human lives and destruction. As far as I can see, neither Somalia or Eritrea has gained from it, in fact a lot of people fled from these countries and now live in Europe (i live in euope). Ethiopia on the other hand has tremendous economic growth. So the people of Ehtiopia who live in regions which do not profit yet from the economic growth, just fight together to hav a fair share, and demand investments in factories, agriculture, transport, education, medical facilities, so that all people of Ehtiopia can have a better life in the future. That is a SOCIAL struggle, not an ETHNIC struggle!
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Replacing russian pipe-lined gas by LNG will triple the price of gas, and will substantially raise CO2 emissions ... why would we do that? Being less dependend on (russian) gas or fossil fuels entirely is a good long term goal, but not achievable in the short term. We could start by reducing the gas consumption in eastern european countries, where gas consumption is high (colder winters) and reliance on russian gas is high. However, eastern european economies could not afford that transition, partly also because the gas prices are lower there (a lower gas price means that the return time of an investment in lower gas consumption is higher). The solution would be to have this transition financed by richer EU countries, which in turn gets the supplies of gas no longer needed in eastern europe for just the difference in transit fees, which they can sell for a much higher price and which can finance the gas transition. The gas consumers in the eastern european countries, which don't invest themselves in the gas transition to lower gas consumption, have the guarantee that their energy bills stay the same or even get a little lower (but with a more comfortable house) and additional it will create jobs in eastern europen countries. Since they then still pay for a portion of the gas they no longer use, that portion of the gas deliveries can be rerouted through other pipelines (for which the Nordstream 2 can be used) to western europe for just the additional cost of the difference in transit costs. Problem solved. At the same time, plans can be made throughout europe to replace fossil natural gas with bio gas, for instance made from composting algae - algea farms can be placed on the north sea between wind farms, and for newly built building with high energy efficiency, heat-pumps or heat-networks can be used, with undergorund seasonal storage of heat in isolated basins of sand (see Polar Energy) which get their energy from renewable sources. Such solution would be ideal, but the conditions that would need to be fulfilled are that the geopolitical climate gets improved and tensions (esp. between Ukrain and Russia, the Donbass issus and outstanding problems over gas deliveries through Ukrain) get resolved.... With the interference of the US in european politics, and the detoriating relations with Russia, the chances for a peacefull solution to the european gas problem will diminish, which in turn means that the european population will pay a high price in the form of continuing high energy prices and the risk of the outbreak of a real war over Ukrain. Neither of those options are what the european popultion want or need, and it will not be fruitfull for climate policies either.... So lets give peace a chance....!
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And Sarkozy and other europen leaders and the despotic gulf monarchies, they all are guilty for their destruction of Libya.
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Rasmussen sounds like drunk - the NATO policy against Libya was drunk. It was not based on facts.
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Have you seen this Finish technology (Polar Energy), which proposes to store renewable energy (wind/solar) in an isolated basin of sand (pipes with heated air go through the sand) which can store energy for winter usage as a heating source. Another alternative for replacing natural gas is producing biogas from algae - algae farms can be built around windmills at sea. Other then biomass like wood, algae is a CO2 neutral way of producing energy.
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That will take time, in the mean time ppl need to heat their houses. Solar nor wind is gonna do that.
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The only logical conclusion is that those who toppled Gadaffi are to blame for this. The US/EU/NATO and arabic despotic guld monarchies are the real culprits of this misery.
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Russia is not desperate for a decline in european gas market, this has been anticipated by building LNG terminals in the arctic and a fleet of LNG carying vessels that can deliver LNG worldwide.
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It is not american dollar, and that is the primary reason US don't want europe to buy russian gas. The american economy and power rests on the international trade being made in US dollar currency, any country that tries to change that, becomes immediately a target of US geopolitics and will meet a regime change operation.... That is how the US stays a super power....
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The US dominates in other markets, like ICT.
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When they do that, and peace is restored, they can no longer claim that there is a "russian threat" and then they have to face a bigger threat: the desperate economic situation regarding energy supplies, and the loss of the russian gas transit from 2024, as Germany will have to open Nordstream 2 gas pipeline, or else face drastic economic downfall due to energy shortages. So, Ukrain and US play the "russian threat" card as long as they can to keep sanctioning Nordstream 2. We europeans pay the price because gasprices sky rocket.
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@allah547 Good luck. Read some history first (Napoleon and Hitler).
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This whole hoax about "russian invasion" of Ukrain is just a smoke screen for Ukrains current military actions against Donbass, and their very detrimental energy situation. Ukrain is a nation about to collapse economically. Both gas and coal are in short supplies, despite delivery of German gas reserves to Ukrain. How long is Europe going to keep up with this, as it creates more gas shortages and higher gas prices.
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Didn't western powers themselves created a dangerous pretext for it by creating Kosovo into in independent country, while it was part of Serbia?
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It is part of US geostrategy, they don't want Russia to have increasing deliveries of fossil fuels, mainly because these deliveries are not paid for in american dollars but other valuta. US simply does not care what kind of regime a country has, as long as their foreign trade is based on US dollars, everything is ok. That is why countries iike Saudi arabia never gets sanctioned over their miserable human rights and democracy records, and US even delivers them the weapons to slaughter Jemen.......
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It is not true that Ukrain people want to join NATO, there are a lot of Ukrainians who don't want that, but the regime installed by the US after the maidan coup acts like a US puppet, and want Ukrain to be used as a geopolitical tool to fight Ukrain. The Ukrain oligarchs are profitting from that, the Ukrain people are suffering ... poverty rate has increased to over 45%....
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Resetting ties with africa - africa simply demands that france leaves africa and quits the neo-colonial exploitation of africa, and starts developing normal trade relations with africa. What part of that does France not understand?
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These troops are all within the borders of Russia. What about all the foreign US bases all around the world, completely circling russia and china? How about the threat that poses to China and Russia?
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@aijamanpirlo2736 No. It's not only dificut but under the current geopolitical climate it is near to impossible. But then, I would argue, we better invest first in improving the geopolitical climate and prevent war. Was is very bad for the climate!
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Actually Egypt and other countries should seek solutions for agriculture which needs less water, and less water is spilled for growing crops.
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When comes NATO in action to protect the people of France against their own government that violently represses them? Dictator Macron must go!
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