The Russian Pipeline Decision

This is far from over and China is far from out of the game. I would not put it past Putin to use it to buy time with the US (Japan is our buddy) while laying the seeds for a collapse of talks and construction down the road; say when the pipeline is built to the geographic point where it must either turn south or continue east. That’s maybe 2-3 years away and in the meantime Putin’s options remain open.

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