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0 pointsMarkoff3y ago0 comments

Well clear winner of current sitaution is US, clear loser is Europe/EU and Russia is somewhere in between, but they can sell their gas elsewhere, so what would be point sabotaging own business (though it could be false flag attack).

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koheripbal3y ago

No, the winner here is clearly Russia.

They wanted to cut the line to pressure the EU into pressuring Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire along existing battle lines.

Cutting production through an "accident" allows them plausible deniability to cut Europe's gas supplies without formally violating the contract and for restoration negotiations if the Ukraine question is settled.

hansjorg3y ago

They already had created an "accident" and the gas in Nord Stream 1 was shut off since 31st of August.

Even if that wasn't enough, why would they choose to damage the lines this severely (flooding them with sea water)?

butthatsit3y ago

Perhaps to force EU to lessen the sanctions, which are also hitting the gas pipeline operator companies?

MarkoffOP3y ago

They can still supply gas through the Ukraine/POland pipeline (Yamal/Brotherhood).

And I don't think cutting these pipelines changes really anything, they were hardly delivering anything at all, so just destroying pipelines won't really help them plus even if EU caved they can't supply gas because the pipeline is damaged, if they were really relying on nord stream.

morpheos1373y ago

Supposedly 350 million dollars worth of gas were lost from nord stream 2. Doesn't seem worth it for a false flag. Plus it eliminates a carrot Russia had for Germany. People need to start thinking critically...

throwaway298123y ago

Why then is Russia still pumping gas through a broken pipeline, poisoning the environment of European countries ?

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1576975332510298112

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