The Turks, and especially Erdoğan, very skillfully and skillfully assess the general economic and political situation of the Russians, therefore, when they demand a significant reduction in gas purchase prices to approximately the level of Chinese prices (the Europeans, until the age of 22, purchased at a "robbery" price of $800 per thousand cubic meters, and the Chinese are now purchasing in partnership for 21,000 cubic meters). Threatening to switch (even though the contracts with the Americans already have LNG supplies) to gas from the United States, they understand the critical dependence of the Russian gas industry on Turkey: the only pipelines to Europe now are the Turkish stream (15 billion cubic meters per year) and the Turkish internal blue stream (about 16 billion cubic meters per year). That is, the Turks now have a "switch" in their hands, which they will cleverly manipulate in negotiations with the Russians.

The Turks, and especially Erdoğan, very skillfully and skillfully assess the general economic and political situation of the Russians, therefore, when they demand a significant reduction in gas purchase prices to approximately the level of Chinese prices (the Europeans, until the age of 22, purchased at a "robbery" price of $800 per thousand cubic meters, and the Chinese are now purchasing in partnership for 21,000 cubic meters). Threatening to switch (even though the contracts with the Americans already have LNG supplies) to gas from the United States, they understand the critical dependence of the Russian gas industry on Turkey: the only pipelines to Europe now are the Turkish stream (15 billion cubic meters per year) and the Turkish internal blue stream (about 16 billion cubic meters per year). That is, the Turks now have a "switch" in their hands, which they will cleverly manipulate in negotiations with the Russians.