Germany has the turbine for Nord Stream 1, but it’s useless: it’s all a game of pure power
Today, German Chancellor Scholz went to Siemens Energy in Mülheim an der Ruhr to see for himself the famous turbine repaired in Canada and which is expected to restart Nord Stream 1 at a faster rate. The turbine is there, ready for delivery, but not there is no rush it seems. although Scholz stressed that it can be delivered at any time, even very quickly, there was no sign of life on the part of Gazprom who even contested the accompanying documents. Meanwhile, the turbine is in Germany and Nord Stream 1 sends only 20% of the gas it could carry.
In reality it's just a trivial power game, and @durezzadelviver describes it well in a Twitter thread of his a few weeks ago.
Article dated 17/06/2022 on La Verità. Thread
The impression is that Russia is playing with Europe like the (Siberian) cat with the mouse. The rhythm
argued with which the European stocks were filling up must have convinced Moscow that it was necessary to slow down the flows– The hardness of living
(@hardnessdelviver) July 31, 2022
It is a power game and nothing more: Moscow knows very well that it will only be able to influence European politics as long as its gas is important. It realized that the filling of European reserves, especially German ones, was taking place too fast, also due to the slowdown in economic activity. Had the reserves been full by 90 & November as the Commission wanted, that date would have marked the end of Russia's political power over Germany. To prolong this influence, undoubtedly, Russia had to slow down the shipments of gas, and to do this any pretext is good, including not having an available turbine sent. This piece is irrelevant: had Gazprom been there he would have complained about another breakdown, or the discontent of the employees at the extraction points.
Contesting the situation is perfectly useless: the knife is in Moscow's hands and Scholz's complaints are at best for domestic politics. Germany should try to open regasifiers and use its domestic gas as soon as possible, rather than complaining.
Two are responsible for this situation:
- strategically, former Chancellor Merkel, who has linked Germany and Europe to a single energy supplier, Russia, due to poor forecasting capacity and, frankly, greed. German growth was a fiction driven only by cheap energy;
- tactically, the Von Der Leyen Commission, which having proclaimed the objective of the stocks as “Essential” from the rooftops, focused Russia's attention on that objective.
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