Quote Originally Posted by Gelston View Post
And China will be able to set the price, not Russia. They are only selling to like, two countries now, as opposed to the dozens they had before. India and China, however, can always tell Rusia their prices are too high and buy from somewhere else.

It is NEVER a good thing for business when your customer base shrinks.
The population of China and India is over 6 times that of the entire EU, those two countries alone are a much larger market than all of the EU.

And sure China and India can tell Russia their prices are too high, but why would they? They are already getting Russian energy for a discount compared to the current market rate, what is China and India going to do? Stop buying cheap Russian energy and buy more expensive energy on the world market and pay more to have it shipped to their country?

It's apparently not an easy thing to do to get alternate sources of energy, otherwise the EU would have told Russia to fuck off and simply bought more from other sources rather than tell their citizens to stop using so much electricity and gas.