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Sure, if you like, but that is a bit of a shell game too. You might not like Putin, but he didn't cut off the gas supply.

I find documents more trustworthy if they don't try to promote their arguments by distorting the truth.

because he needed the income.

No, but he is attempting to cut off Ukraines electricity, and now he is getting his Chinese friends to try and cut off subsea power cables to the Baltic countries, and recently a Russian 'survey' ship was escorted out of Irish waters.

Neither did the ukrainians. They simply refused to renew the contract, which has run its term.

I said our politicians sanctioned Russia. *Our* politicians chose to block our access to cheap Russian energy. I can understand why they try to divert us from noticing their responsibility for higher bills. It is what politicians do. It is just that when I notice them doing it in an energy plan, I know it is clearly a political document.

I'm not sure why you want to spin it so that the Ukrainians aren't responsible for decisions they took to limit other countires access to Russian gas. Prior to terminating transit via the Ukraine pipeline, they tried to block Nord Stream 2.

Putin does lots of bad s*it, but making out that he is refusing to sell us cheap gas isn't reasonable.

FWIW, if Trump invades Panama (or some other country), do you think we should invoke sanctions against the USA? I would be against.

There are plans to transport shipping containers across the land gap between north and south america by other routes and means.

The Panama canal locks are too small for the latest ships and the amount of water needed to fill the locks is seriously depleted.

"A large fire erupted on Thursday at the Moss Landing battery plant, south of San Jose, Calif., closing Highway 1 and prompting local the authorities to issue evacuation orders for around 2,000 residents.

The plant, owned by Vistra Energy, is one of the largest battery storage sites in the world and holds tens of thousands of lithium-ion batteries that store electricity for the power grid.

It is unclear what had started the fire, which began around 3 p.m. on Thursday and sent up clouds of black smoke. By 10 a.m. on Friday, the fire was down to less than 5 percent of its original size, said Fire Chief Joel Mendoza of the North County Fire Protection District."

Andy