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  It's amazing how Germany was able to ditch Russian reliance on gas and oiö
context: Germany on Wednesday shrugged off Russia’s ban on oil sales to countries and companies that comply with a price cap agreed by Western allies, saying it has “no practical significance.”
  “I would not like to say that it’s irrelevant but it has no practical significance,” said an economy ministry spokeswoman, adding that Germany has been preparing since early summer to do without Russian oil. >
  
  Germany: you destroyed any reliance left when you blew up those pipes >
  
  Pretty much,
  on that day the general opinion in Germany about Russian energy went from "It's difficult" to "It's over" >
  
  What are you talking about? It was over way before that, practically and in the publics opinion. >
  
  Yea but politicians >
  
  not even that aside some singular opinions here and there. >
  
  the reality is that much of the oil will still find it's way to banned countries, but with even less profit for Russia, and more for the middle men, who will then also have an incentive to keep Russia isolated.
  and the price cap was intended to reduce Russian profits while not depriving the world of oil, so Russia is playing itself. >
  
  Yeah Oil isn’t really that rare of a resource at the end of the day. Although it is funny that back in the 70s-80s the fear with fossil fuels wasn’t so much environmental but rather we would soon run out of fossil fuel sources. >
  
  The nuance there is that the cheapest oil is long over, but as the price rises some partially depleted wells and extraction methods become competitive again. >
  
  Russia is showing their weakness.