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> Russia has no motive because they would harm themselves. Ok? You’re stating that they don’t not have motive, so what’s the motive? Why would Russia throw awa
by cced 4y ago
> Russia has no motive because they would harm themselves.
Ok? You’re stating that they don’t not have motive, so what’s the motive? Why would Russia throw away part of it’s cards? What’s the play?
- fabian2k 4y agoIt causes a lot of uncertainty, which does benefit Russia. And it did not elinimate their capacity to sell gas to Germany. Of course there is much less capacity now in total, but NS2 was never even used so far and there is no way that Germany would buy that much gas from Russia again that the reduced capacity would be an issue. If Russia were able to break the coalition of countries supporting Ukraine it would benefit enormously. I'm not seeing them succeeding in that, but that doesn't mean they're not trying it.
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- mschuster91 4y agoRussia has a history of blowing up their own infrastructure for political purposes, such as 2009 [1] or 2006 [2], not to mention simple shoddy workmanship or neglected maintenance (1995 [3][4]). Pipeline explosions are easy to cause and usually easy to fix as well, while claiming "force majeure" absolves Russia from holding up existing delivery contracts. [1] https://www.rferl.org/a/Pipeline_Explosion_Stokes_Tensions_Between_Turkmenistan_Russia/1608633.html https://www.rferl.org/a/Pipeline_Explosion_Stokes_Tensions_B... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Russia%E2%80%93Georgia_energy_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Russia%E2%80%93Georgia_en... [3] https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/disaster-down-the-pipe-28062 https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/disaster-down-the-pipe-2... [4] https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/2764.html https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/2764.html