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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by ajross on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @01:18AM (#33004498)
> Why is Putin direct interest destroy a source of income and leverage to the country!?!?

The logic isn't unreasonable. Nordstream is very clearly NOT a source of income, currently. But it could be, if Putin were deposed. Now the Russian gas interests are stuck with Putin, they don't win anything (in the near term) via a coup.

Add to that that clandestine adventurism like this is very much Putin's MO and not the USA's (we do our adventurism with giant flags and 24/7 news coverage), and... it seems the most reasonable guess.

Really the US doesn't have that much interest here, certainly not enough to provoke further escalation. If Ukraine were to straight up fall to Russia, we'd deal with it. That's what we all assumed was going to happen back in the spring anyway.

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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by foverzar on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @04:12AM (#33005464)
> Add to that that clandestine adventurism like this is very much Putin's MO and not the USA's

Clandestine adventurism is not the USA's, really???

> we

Oh, that explains it. Cuz "we" are always the good guys!

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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by prvit on Thursday September 29, 2022 @09:49AM (#33020584)
>Clandestine adventurism is not the USA's, really???

Not this ambitious, no.

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Re:Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea by MichaelCollins on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @09:47AM (#33007868)
He's only wrong about the first half of that.
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