And production is, well, you know... What’s interesting here is this: what exactly are we supposed to pump through all these ESPO and BTS-2 pipelines if there’s no oil? People at Rosneft told me in private conversations that they don’t need ESPO or all this China trade for shit. There’s nothing to sell, and whatever there is can just as successfully be sold somewhere else. Meanwhile, a staggering amount of public money is being poured into building the pipeline. The only solution that comes to mind is to make Yury M. Luzhkov-Baturin’s old dream come true: reversing the Siberian rivers and trading water. We’ll shove something like the Yenisei into a pipeline and send it off to Europe. Or to drought-stricken China. And if they start acting up over there, we’ll raise the pressure and flood the lot of them to hell and gone. Yet another asymmetric response to missile defense.