If this is really a sabotage, I have a hard time to see who could benefit from it. Even if they don't want to deliver gas right now, I don't understand why Russia would sabotage its infrastructure.
In my view the USA has been wanting to escalate this whole situation for a while. The USA has known for years that expanding NATO into Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine, would be a war declaration towards Russia [0]. Many influential people in the USA have warned for this for many, many years.
In case the Warsaw Pact would still exist, US citizens should ask themselves if they'd be happy if Russia would have expanded the Warsaw Pact towards Mexico. It would mean Russia could easily move armaments close the the US border. Surely that'd be quite uncomfortable. Now the USA is doing the same through NATO.
Yet, through Victoria Nuland, the USA staged a coup in Ukraine [1]. Installed a puppet regime that bombarded the people in Crimea, Donbass. Prohibited teaching Russian in schools [2], etc...
The people that live in these areas are generally pro-Russia (often from Russian descent) and the Ukraine government made live hard for them. There's been referendums in Donbass in 2014 and the Ukraine government and many others didn't recognise it [3].
After years of bombardments from Ukraine the peoples living in this area feel safer under Russian governance than under Ukraine governance.
If Western governments were sensible and would really want to avoid war and hurting their own citizens (especially in EU with energy prices rising through the roofs), they would respect the results of the referendums last week and allow Crimea, eastern Ukraine to merge with Russia. Or at the very least split from Ukraine.
However Western governments, for one reason or another, are hellbent on inciting a possible World War 3. I am not sure why, but I am just glad I don't live in The Netherlands anymore - emigrated to Thailand 5 years ago.
Some people have predicted that was is inevitable [4].
Hopefully SEA will be mostly safe from whatever will happen in the near future. I do worry for my family in The Netherlands though.
> In my view the USA has been wanting to escalate this whole situation for a while. The USA has known for years that expanding NATO into Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine, would be a war declaration towards Russia [0]. Many influential people and people in powerful positions in the USA have warned of this for many, many years.
In my view this is complete rubbish and is just attempting to excuse Russias actions and tries to remove Russias agency. The only one responsible for this war and its countless warcrimes is Russia.
This also ignores the fact that NATO was not going to expand into Ukraine any time soon. We already knew it wasn't going to happen, and Ukraine even explicitly put it on the table when talking to Russia.
The real reason for the war is the natural resources in the Donbas, Luhansk and Crimea region which Russias sees as a threat to its place a gas station in the world. If the EU didn't have to deal with Russia but could still get cheap oil and gas there is no doubt they would move providers.
> Yet, through Victoria Nuland the USA staged a coup in Ukraine [1]. Installed a puppet regime that bombarded the people in Crimea, Donbass. Prohibited teaching Russian in schools, etc...
It was a revolution not a coup, the people of Ukraine weren't happy that the Russian installed puppet was deciding to move away from the EU despite promising the opposite. This Russian puppet later fled to Russia.
> The people that live in these areas are generally pro-Russia (often from Russian descent) and the Ukraine government made live hard for them. There's been referendums in Donbass in 2014 and the Ukraine government and many others didn't recognise it [2].
Why should anyone accept a referendum at gun point, which is what all Russian referendums are. If you have someone come around and give you a piece of paper whilst holding a machine gun there is one way you are going to vote.
> After years of bombardments the peoples living in this area feel safer under Russian governance than under Ukraine governance.
I'm not sore sure about this considering Russia is literally pulling people off the street to go fight on the front lines in the LPR and DPR. Put then again it cannot be working that well cause Russia mobilised last week.
> If Western governments were sensible and would really want to avoid war, they would respect the results of the referendums last week and allow Crimea, eastern Ukraine to merge with Russia. Or at the very least split from Ukraine.
If Western governments where sensible they would given Ukraine any weapons it needs to push Russia out of Ukraine. This war is showing just how much of a paper tiger the Russian army really is.
I mean you cannot just let a country literally rape and pillage its way through another and then annex a bunch of territory can you?.
Put if Russia wants to put hundreds of thousands of its own citizens through the meat grinder its up to them. I guess thats why so many people are literally fleeing Russia now.
> However Western governments, for one reason or another, are hellbent on inciting a possible World War 3. I am not sure why, but I am just glad I don't live in The Netherlands anymore - emigrated to Thailand 5 years ago.
Western governments are hell bent on supporting Ukraines democracy.
> Hopefully SEA will be mostly safe from whatever will happen in the near future. I do worry for my family in The Netherlands though.
I dont know if you really wanna live in SEA if WW3 breaks, the west clearly has superior technology given the poor showing of the Russian forces, good chance Russia just collapses instead of inciting WW3 like you suggest.
That's why people are starting to blame it on the US because we had means and motivation. They surmise it was done to prevent a deal between Germany and Russia for the winter. But Russia could have done it knowing people would blame the US because Russia has no reason to do it
Just a week ago, an underwater attack drone has been found [1] beaching near russian naval base. These could be used to damage the pipeline. This benefits the US trying to prevent the EU backing down from their own sanctions in face of crumbling Ukraine op.
This was a surface vessel discovered off of the coast of Crimea. This attack would be more likely done by a submersible, and is in the Baltic Sea. Unlikely to be related.
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