It's a spy thriller that has the potential to change the course of international politics: A year ago, a secret commando blew up the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Since then, investigators have been searching for the perpetrators. The leads they have found are extremely politically sensitive.

only a handful of investigators at most have been assigned to work on the Nord Stream case on a full-time basis.

the perception among investigators is that the will to solve the case is not particularly pronounced in the capital. Politically, it is easier to live with what happened if it remains unclear who is behind the attacks.

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Yeah this article is missing the mark. Much like the larger conflict the U.S. is going to throw Ukranians under the bus for it's own agenda, like selling oil and gas to the EU at wildly inflated rates.

      • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Right? And they are the mothballed shit that was gonna rot in a wearhouse instead of doing what they are supposed to do: blow Russians into tiny peices.

        Now we get to watch a field test in war conditions, restock our own troops with even better shit, design strategies with the use of drones after watching how well the Ukrainian military are using them, and sit on our ass providing intelligence while the Russians get royally fucked.

              • JuryNullification [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Please engage with contemporary, mainstream historians who have studied the now open Soviet archives. I recommend R. W. Davies and Stephen G. Wheatcroft, The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933. You can just read the introduction (all but the first edition) where they discuss and go into detail on Holodomor as genocide. It’s in English and pretty accessible to lay people. The rest of the book will likely be of no interest to you, as it’s part of a series of very dry academic publications by the authors that goes into the minutiae of Soviet agriculture. If that interests you, go for it.

                This book is in libgen.

          • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            I mean, there are active duty Ukranian soldiers that are missing limbs. How exactly did a forever war in Afghanistan work out for the general populace aside from annihilating a generation.

            • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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              1 year ago

              there are active duty Ukranian soldiers that are missing limbs

              Then ask Russia to stop invading? That would help.

              • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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                1 year ago

                Have you ever played 4x games? What does it mean when an opponent starts ringing your territory with bases and trying to get everyone to ally against you?

                Also if Russia just packed up and left today do you believe that there wouldn't be an immediate ethnic cleansing of the eastern Ukranian, Russian speaking population?

                • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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                  1 year ago

                  immediate ethnic cleansing

                  You mean the removal of the russian population that was occupying crymea? Besides those, I'm sure that there will be a lot of hate for russian speaking people, but tough fucking luck, guess why. Russian could have not invaded crymea and people would not have harboured hate for the ethnicity and language.

                  "Oh thanks for packing up and leaving, now my territory is destroyed and economy fucked up, thanks!" of course that people will blame tons fo thing in Russia, it's what I would expect of any oppressed population.

                  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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                    1 year ago

                    Are you not aware of the fact that a large part of the population of Ukraine, especially in the eastern parts of the country, are ethnic Russians who were born and raised there?

                    And why did you even bring up Crimea when the comment you replied to was clearly about Ukraine? Stop being dishonest.

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                They aren't interested in liberating Ukraine either. They have been on the wrong side of every fucking military conflict for like 75 years, but now they have decided to be liberators?

                  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                    1 year ago

                    No, I remember the cold war and the multiple proxy wars the US instigated then too. They were in the wrong and the destruction of the USSR was a tragedy. The neoliberals got exactly what they wanted in the creation of the Russian Federation, but that just meant more war in the end, as we see with the current conflict. Yeltsin was NATO's guy, and Putin was Yeltsin's guy. Fuckin' whoops.

          • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            Russia now sells oil and gas through Saudi Arabia who sells it to the EU at a sizeable markup. Russia is still selling their gas and oil, just through an intermediary and their economy has been almost unphased despite an initial drop at the beginning of the 2020 offensive. Russia had only money to lose by blowing up it's own oil pipeline, the U.S. has benefited immensely through oil/gas sales to countries affected.

            https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/energy/russia-oil-exports-iea-report/index.html

            https://www.statista.com/statistics/1009056/gdp-growth-rate-russia/

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                It’s easy to fluff market numbers when you aren’t allowed to sell stocks

                Stock buybacks and other practices demonstrate that fluffing market numbers when you are allowed to sell stocks can be quite easy as well.