[behaveEc0n00]

The opinion this is cheap talk might be a shitty one?

Gas line works fine for years, suddenly during regional conflict it goes tits up?

A dying country whose leadership seems intent on putting it out of its misery sending its potential fathers to a meat grinder, a history of stupid big picture choices, angry at the world for not letting it conquer it might partake in environmental sabotage.

It’s a lot less on the nose than nukes; if we can’t have imperialist nation state, no one can!

The holocaust is proof of human indifference to each other’s existence. What do a bunch of old turds care about intentional environmental destruction?

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Gas line works for years, then 6 months after removal of western technical experts and ending of cooperation with technicians running west end of pipeline (which article stressed were critical to clearing plugs like these safely) it goes tits up.

Putin is not going to blow up his biggest leverage over Europe during a cold winter, its his only chance at getting them to reduce support for Ukraine.