Mr. Putin just became a whole lot richer as Russia Signs $400 Billion Gas Deal After Decade of Talks
Infrastructure investment from both sides will be more than $70 billion and will be the world’s largest construction project, with Russia providing $55 billion up front and China $22 billion. This is Gazprom’s biggest contract to date.
While the gas deal itself is historic, the geopolitical ramifications of this deal are much more important.
First, it will allow Russia and Putin (who will rule Russia for as long as he wants) to diversify away from the EU. The next time either the EU or the US will threaten Russia with NATO, war or sanctions they might very quickly find their gas turned off and their economies collapsed.
More importantly, as the US continues to poke both Russia and China with their “freedom and god given righteousness” stick, Russia and China continue to form much closer ties. Such close ties will eventually turn into a military alliance to counterbalance NATO (aka the US Industrial Military Complex) in South East Asia and in Europe. Just as predicted in my report here…Nuclear World War 3 Is Coming Soon.When, How & Why
