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Worse than that, they were roping in Russia - more successfully than in the past eight centuries - and those economic ties were blown worse than the pipeline.
by B1FF_PSUVM 4y ago
Worse than that, they were roping in Russia - more successfully than in the past eight centuries - and those economic ties were blown worse than the pipeline.
- dralley 4y agoThose economic ties were broken the moment Russia started threatening to cut off the gas unless Germany did what they wanted, which took about 3 days and escalated over the next several months. It has been transparently clear for a decade that Germany was the one being "roped" by Russia, not the one "roping" Russia.
- lazide 4y agoGermanys problem is clearly that they noticed and said no! (/s) Sorry, just getting out of the influence of someone similar. It’s a hit too painful.
- Swenrekcah 4y agoPutin has been invading his neighbours since 2008 and finally launched a full scale war. How would you say that is “roping in Russia”?
- B1FF_PSUVM 4y agoSome people think so, looking at the raw geopolitics instead of the news fodder - e.g. in 2015: "So, the primordial interest of the United States over which for centuries we have fought wars, the first, second and cold war has been the relationship between Germany and Russia. Because united they are the only force that could threaten us, and to make sure that that doesn’t happen." https://uaposition.com/stratfor-founder-and-ceo-george-friedman-about-europe-ukraine-and-us-military-power/ https://uaposition.com/stratfor-founder-and-ceo-george-fried...
- Swenrekcah 4y agoThis is a rather outlandish theory IMO and it also doesn’t answer the question I posed.