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Originally Posted by elysiantraveller
There is only one likely culprit.
Nordstream 2 isn't even online yet and Germany has managed to survive the past couple of years.
There is enough capacity already through existing Eastern European pipelines to keep Europe warm...
NordStream 1 and 2 were about not having to pay transit fees through those countries.
Russia maximizes economic pain hitting the pipelines.
Edit) They are losing this war and are trying to play any bit of leverage they have.
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For God's sake our own president is on video saying he was going to get rid of it and the US has something to gain by it (cutting Russia off economically longer term, preventing Germany from negotiating peace when winter comes) and Russia everything to lose by it and you still think Russia did it?
If I suspected Russia did it I'd at least make the sensible case that it was a false flag operation that Russia pulled off to make the world think the US is insane (which it is) and wants to escalate the war (which it apparently does).
Now if Russia starts cutting fiber lines that connect the communications and the internet in response we are in a much bigger war because these dimwits in DC and the neocons driving it are war mongering sociopaths.
There are easy outs to this that secure Ukraine's defense long term and give Putin what he wants now. The US is too dumb to negotiate now and simply wait for him to die. He's not a young healthy man anymore. He's not going to be in charge for that much longer. We don't have to start WW3 to get rid of him.
