Well they should do, really. After all, they’ve been in cahoots for decades! It’s not for nothing that Tymoshenko is nicknamed the “Gas Princess”. She got this because of all the missing gas that disappeared in transit across the Ukraine – does this sound familiar?

Needless to say, the folks in Eastern Europe who depend entirely on Russia for the stuff, will have to start chopping their wonderful forests down soon, if they want to keep warm.

The Czechs must be especially peeved. Their country used to be the major source of pitchblende, the prime ore of uranium. But since WW2 it’s been rapidly used up so they couldn’t be self-sufficient in nuclear power even if they wanted to!

Here’s a link to a rather agitated Czech news report on the developing situation and how the Czechs, at least, are pushing ahead with some diplomacy: EU Ministers Appreciate Steps Taken by Czech Presidency to Resume Gas Supplies

And this is how the the Arab Aljazeera reports the latest gas shutdown: Gas supply from Russia ‘blocked’ . The quotes say it all really.

And what is technical gas anyway?

How much warning and how much prompting do people need as a trigger to free themselves from the burden of depending on someone else all the time for basic necessities.

Surely it’s obvious now that we live un-sustainable existences! Surely?

Of course, if the West pulled it’s finger out there would be no need of any of this. We now have the ideal opportunity to free ourselves from fossil fuel dependancy and thus, the external influences of countries working against our interests. And not a single bullet needs to be fired to make ourselves free!

If rising sea-levels and mass extinctions aren’t a trigger, then surely our unseemly dependance on dodgy states and idealogies is something to end as fast as possible.