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[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What does it matter if Pipe B is damaged or not? The exact words I used was that pipe B is possibly damaged but not enough to leak. Okay, let's assume it's not damaged at all: that just means that one of the charges failed to go off.

It still makes zero sense for Putin to cut his own gas pipelines from two working pipes (Nord 1) down to one pipe that hadn't even been certified (half of Nord 2). Why would he do that? Nord 1 was already shutdown for repairs and not shipping gas, because the Russians couldn't get the parts to repair them due to sanctions. So from Putin's point of view, the Nord gas pipelines no longer represented either a carrot or a stick to Germany:

  • Russia could no longer deliver gas through Nord 1, due to the sanctions blocking repairs.
  • Germany wasn't going to certify Nord 2.
  • He couldn't threaten to turn the gas off because the gas was already off.

So Russia just sold the gas to other countries instead, and let Germany just buy very expensive American gas. If Germany goes broke, that's less money they have to give to Nazis.

Wait so now there are times where you believe and cite the wapo? What are the rules for when wapo is believable and citable?

When their stories make logical sense, and when they are supported by credible evidence. If Wapo says that water is wet and fire is hot, I believe them. If they say that women have penises and black cops beating people to death is "white supremacy", I don't.

It has never made any sense to say that Russia would destroy their own pipeline. Russia paid for the damn things, and they weren't cheap. Eventually the war will be over, Europe will want to buy that gas again. Why destroy the pipes when they can just shut them down for (real or pretend) maintenance?

America has always wanted the Nord pipelines destroyed, since before they were even built. Russia wanted to sell gas to Europe, and not long after Biden clearly said that America has ways to stop the Nord pipelines, the pipelines were destroyed by a terrorist attack that completely coincidentally happened right in the spot nearby to US naval exercises. What an amazing coincidence, right? You coincidence theorist.

Putin believes that Germany are desperate for gaz and that Europe would freeze this winter without him.

Germany is desperate for gas. They are buying it at hugely inflated prices from America, and from Norway. But even so, with the huge price increase, Germany industry has shut down because they can't afford to pay for heating and power.

And the irony is, nobody did this to them except their own ruling elite, and the Americans. They can't blame the Russians, Russia was perfectly happy to keep selling them gas at the contracted price. They didn't even make it conditional on them stopping support of Nazis.

Germany has learned that their supposed ally, the US, will stab them in the back -- and the Germany ruling political class is happy to let them do it.

(Might have something to do with all those tens of thousands of US soldiers on those military bases all over Germany.)