[Covzire]

China benefits greatly, Russian oil and gas now have only one reliable buyer for the foreseeable future. Invading Taiwan is now easier since blockading the shipping lanes from the ME will have little impact on the Chinese war machine if they get reliable oil from Russia.

[londons_explore]

Except Russia has no east west gas or oil transmission infrastructure. Whatever they extract from the west they need to export west, and whatever they extract in the east must go east

[leaflets2]

How long does it take to build a West to east pipeline

[foverzar]

You forgot about all the other pipelines from Russia to Europe.