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The West found out firsthand on January 7 of 2009 how Russia uses oil and gas as geopolitical weapons.
That was the day in the dead of winter when Gazprom halted its gas supplies to Ukraine in a dispute over price and money that it said Ukraine owed it.
At the time, Russia supplied a third of Europe’s gas — and 80 percent of it came through Ukrainian pipelines, so cutting off gas to Ukraine meant cutting it off to the continent.
Moscow cared not a whit that its dispute with Ukraine would cause collateral damage across Europe. …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
