• uphillbothways@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I read all the theories. All I can muster is ‘oh no, not Russia’s pipeline.’ Seems like however you cut it, Russia did this to themselves by invading Ukraine. They were kind of on a more decent path towards meaningful integration for a minute. Would have been good for common Russians and everyone else if they’d stayed on that path. But, instead their leadership decided on extreme aggression.

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        Doesn’t really matter who paid for it so long as it’s intent is to send oil/gas one way and huge amounts of money the other way.

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            Because it wasn’t blown up because of who funded it but rather who it benefits most. I’m not saying it’s right but it’s at least a save thought.

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          It does matter, as Germany is a NATO member, and the pipelines were critical infrastructure and blowing them up would be an act of war.

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      If America did blow up the pipelines, it would have been a NATO country blowing up critical infrastructure (an act of war) of another NATO country (Germany).

      That would, in fact, be a very fucking big deal.