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Occam's razor here is that Russia has been engaged for years in a wide range activities with the sole aim of, simply speaking, creating all kinds of problems in
by benterix 3y ago
Occam's razor here is that Russia has been engaged for years in a wide range activities with the sole aim of, simply speaking, creating all kinds of problems in the West. [0] Many of these are very well documented. There is no single cause - they will support both extreme right and extreme left, aiming to sow trouble. These actions are not so subtle and everybody can analyze them. Their ex-prime minister openly threatens to nuke EU countries, not just once, but on several occasions.
Moreover, Russia had high hopes the EU will not manage without Russian gas. They even made this scary video on how the whole EU will freeze[1]. But we managed to solve the problem and nobody in Europe is fearing the next winter. It would be a strange coincidence if power plants in the EU started malfunctioning in February causing country-wide outages because of some complex software problems that got undetected for months...
[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01399-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01399-3
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5x4RzDL8ps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5x4RzDL8ps