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Re:Russian gas flows to Europe by shmerl on Sunday July 10, 2022 @04:16PM (#32048546)
Well, what was the alternative during WWII? Defeating Nazi Germany for instance. Which is what happened. But surely not doing business with it during the war, that's self explanatory.
Re:Russian gas flows to Europe by difosfor on Sunday July 10, 2022 @04:43PM (#32048803)
I think you're underestimating our dependency on energy in the modern world. It might be easier to convince us to just go ahead and start WW3, but we aren't going to do that, sorry. I hope we can find some way out of this that will be less harmful. What that will be I suppose only time will tell.
Re:Russian gas flows to Europe by AnonymousPlanet on Sunday July 10, 2022 @04:44PM (#32048817)
And how is Europe commiting collective suicide going to defeat Russia?

Must be fun looking in at all this from the sidelines.

Re:Russian gas flows to Europe by ajsnigrutin on Sunday July 10, 2022 @05:36PM (#32049318)
I'm an european, and I never understood this...

We sent our soldiers to every shithole america decided to "bring democracy to", but now, ukraine has become so important, that we are willing to destroy our own economy and "passively fight" until the "last dead ukranian", to achieve what exactly?

Re:Russian gas flows to Europe by int_19h on Sunday July 10, 2022 @08:34PM (#32050814)
Where would you draw the line? Moldova? Baltic countries? Poland? Everyone for themselves?
Re:Russian gas flows to Europe by ajsnigrutin on Sunday July 10, 2022 @09:36PM (#32051225)
Where did we draw the line with USA?
Re:Russian gas flows to Europe by shmerl on Sunday July 10, 2022 @11:53PM (#32051991)
In Pearl Harbor. It was later than it could be obviously.
Re:Russian gas flows to Europe by likecarter on Monday July 11, 2022 @10:07PM (#32064749)
His aspirations are much larger than Ukraine.
Re:Russian gas flows to Europe by permo-w on Sunday July 10, 2022 @05:07PM (#32049046)
>doing business with [Nazi Germany] during the war

it is often forgotten that this is exactly what the US did for the first 2-3 years of the war. Germany swallowed up the wealth of Europe. Britain had already swallowed up the wealth of a quarter of the world. the US swallowed up both of their wealth and ended the war with 2/3 of the world's gold

this is a simplification, but it's also huge overarching story of WW2 that is often missed. people know the US and Russia became the world's two superpowers, but there's very little attention paid as to how the US came to be one of them