“I don’t understand. Why would Russia, Who can just turn off the spigot blow up their own pipeline? Assuming a peace deal is reached, they could instantly turn the spigot back on and start the revenue stream. I could easily see a third party, China or Iran (even Ukraine) as having more incentive to do this.”
Well, if — and I emphasize IF — Russia wanted to create a pretext to escalate this war, what better way than to manufacture a false flag to justify it? Kind of like the US did in 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin.
why would they want to escalate the war? they’re already getting their asses kicked. I’d be looking at the guy who already threatened to blow it up and that has the means to do so
IF Russia wanted to create a pretext to escalate this war, what better way than to manufacture a false flag to justify it?
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This really doesn’t seem like the kind of escalation that would end well for Russia, albeit there will be a LOT of others to suffer. Putin would have to be in a very dark place to to shooting himself in the leg and basically toss the chess board in favor of destruction.
Admission against interest.
Biden: "If Russia invades...There will no longer be a Nordsteam 2. We will bring an end to it."
Reporter: "How will you do that exactly, since the project and control of the project, is within Germany's control?"
Biden: "We will uhh...I promise you.. we will be able to do it."