So many people on here getting excited about possible pipeline wars between Russia and the West (forgetting that its in Western Europe's interest to build more pipelines from Russia in order to minimise shortages due to ongoing Russian-Ukrainian disputes).
And indeed there may be something to it. But we really shouldn't over play the reality. Decades of Albanian separatism versus the sniff of a pipeline and a good conspiracy theory? I think the latest trouble has more to do with the former than the latter.
Just a reminder of the European/Russian gas pipeline network and how important Macedonia really is(n't) in the greater scheme of things:
And indeed there may be something to it. But we really shouldn't over play the reality. Decades of Albanian separatism versus the sniff of a pipeline and a good conspiracy theory? I think the latest trouble has more to do with the former than the latter.
Just a reminder of the European/Russian gas pipeline network and how important Macedonia really is(n't) in the greater scheme of things:
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