Europe Says Putin’s Gas Power Is Weakening

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/world/europe/eu-russia-putin-gas.html

The Russia-Ukraine War is constantly evolving and the latest news of today, September 7th, is how Europe is continuing to decrease the use of Russian oil to show support to Ukraine. Since the beginning of the war Europe has tried to stockpile alternative energy source in hopes of blunt Russia’s weaponization of exports. There has for a long time been fiddled with the gas tap to Europe and now it is indefinitely halt flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline that supplies to a lot of Europe. The situation with Putin’s power over Russian oil has gone so far that some people call this situation blackmail. This is something that makes the Europeans struggle, but luckily they have also been prepared for this situation. It was told at the European Commission that, at the beginning of the war, Russia’s pipeline gas was 40% of all imported gas whereas today it is only 9%. Overall, there is a lot of possibilities to how this winter will take place when it comes to the gas power of Europe.

This article is very well-written in my opinion, due to the fact that writer made it an easy read. The Russia-Ukraine War is a very complex topic with a lot of different elements in it, so it can sometimes be hard to keep track of everything. I do believe this article made it very easy to understand the whole situation by having some background explanations occasionally, but on the downside the article was very long. Even though the situation is so complex I think that some paragraphs were a bit unnecessary (such as mentioning Ukraine sought NATO-membership in 2009) and it makes the reader lose the motivation to keep reading the whole article. So in conclusion, it is a good article because it is an easy read and very informational, but personally I did lose the desire to keep reading the whole thing due to the length of it.