I wonder who has a vested interest in making sure the EU doesn't negotiate with Russia. I also wonder who's been selling the EU gas at viciously inflated prices. Hmm...
The brain geniuses over at reddit think Russia went deep into NATO territory to bomb their own pipeline, that they could shut off from their own side at any moment.
I've seen an absolutely beautiful lib take about the sabotage of Nordstream:
They admitted that it doesn't really make any sense for Russia to do this, so Russia totally DID do it to seem more "unpredictable and crazy" and therefore make the threat of an escalation to nuclear warfare seem more credible. Perhaps they can use the heat generated by these kinds of mental gymnastics to keep warm during the winter.
The enemy is both calculating, strong, cunning, strategic, logical, has brilliant tactics, and at the same time unpredictable, nonsensical, emotional, short-sighted and weak.
This is coming a week after Russia said they stopped a Ukrainian attack on energy infrastructure linking Russia to Turkey and the rest of Europe as the article mentions but for some reason doesn't link to (and this is better to avoid the paywall anyway)
Interesting, but seeing as it's Russia making the claim it could well just be disinformation.
"Russia bad. America good. I'm a free thinker. You're a brainwashed tankie."
I made no claims about America, but Russia is particularly bad when it comes to lies. Remember when all of this was starting and they were waving away a massive buildup of tanks as a training drill? Russia makes claims of genocide by Ukraine while denying well documented mass murder of Ukrainian civilians. It claims that US contractors are deploying chemical weapons in the Donbass region. Then there were the transparent lies around Flight MH17. The US lies from time to time, it is true. But Russia lies habitually in a firehose of misinformation to confuse between truth and fiction. It is like comparing Trump and his habitual lying with a more normal politicians occasional truth stretching. Not even the same league.
