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Also Germany has nationalized some parts of russian gas businesses
I mean... Russia nationalized some part of Western oil businesses.
For example TNK-BP was "acquired" by Rosneft. BP could only do business in Russia via the joint venture, and once BP had laid down enough technology and ability to extract oil from the fields Russia moved to ensure that Rusia Petroleum and Rosneft were the only ones who could then earn from those fields. BP were "paid", but really the payment was for the fields in Venezuela they already couldn't access.
It's complicated, as is the way of doing this stuff in a plausibly deniable way... but in essence, Russia nationalised Western interests in Russia.
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There as been this strange back and forth between russia and Germany about how much gas they send down the pipeline, the russians still want to appear as legitimate business partners so they reduce deliveries for technical reasons or go down for "maintenance" but never openly say they will stop it.
I wonder if they damaged it using submarines and if that is an attack on Nato territory.
Also Germany has nationalized some parts of russian gas businesses.