RSSIt wasn’t the Russians who blew up the pipeline; it cost them tens of billions (after Germany asked for them to build it), and Russia controls 2 (TWO) of the taps that allow gas into the pipeline.
It wasn’t the Germans who blew up the pipeline; they were happy with NordStream 1, and were about to commence negotiations on NordStream 3 when this ‘issue’ occured.
Germany and Russia were already using the pipeline and had just not told anybody that it was 100% finished and in operation – any video of the pipeline you watch will show you a FULLY FUNCTIONAL GAS PIPELINE PUMPING AT FULL CAPACITY; gas spewing out at high speed, the gas turbines obviously in full operation and operating for hours before finally being shut off.
Nordstream2 was 100% FINISHED and being used by Germany for the supply of gas on the day of its destruction. If Germany was so serious about ‘weaning itself of Russian gas’ they would have turned the taps off at their end.
The worlds leading State Sponsor of Terrorism (AKA the War OF Terror initiated on 911) said they were going to do it (stop it from being used) on multiple occasions. Their allies thanked them for blowing it up on multiple occasions.
The blowing up of Nordstream 1 & 2 was an international act of terror directed primarily at the people who were receiving the gas. Whilst financially it was a ‘small blow’ to Russia, they had diverted supply within 8 weeks to buyers in Asia. The big loser was Germany and Europe. This was an International Terrorist Attack against Germany. The German people need to understand that. At the end of the Cold War, Russia packed up and went home, gave East Germany back to The West…. The U.$. is still there and has not vacated one inch of territory.
Jose: the Chinese have owned Thailand since well before the Americans used the NE of the country as a staging ground for genocide missions into the rest of Indo China during the Vietnam war. Apart from a lucky few of the brown locals, all major investment and political decisions are made by the rich Thai Chinese- usually bespectacled and whiter in skin colour. The elite of this elite are usually educated in the US and have strong links to the military and they pretty much ARE the business community.. The only thing new in Thailand is the take up of new and accessible internet and phone technologies by the poor- Tik tok etc sure…. these all just feed into making the Thai Cinese elite richer and more powerful. The poor Thai locals continue to buy new pick-ups and 35 000 baht mobile phones thinking that such access to stuff has pushed them into the lower middle class…it never will and never has… Culturally and economically China has always pretty much been there in the modern era and always will….What’s most disturbing is tour bus loads of mainland Chinese accessing cheap air asia flights and and touring the thai islands and cities – spitting and yelling and pushing kids out of the way to get into the noodle shops. They are disgusting. The beautiful Thai people rarely speak up cos they need the tourist dollars from these baboons…