Re:Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding
by sofixa on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @04:58AM
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> You realize that that gas didn't evaporate but will be eventually sold to somebody else
They don't have the infrastructure for that, and if they stop extraction it will be complicated and expensive to restart it later. So they're just burning it:
Re:Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding
by rendall on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @04:06AM
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If you're saying that "hurt ego" is the motivation, OK, but there are many non-Russian beneficiaries from the action that do not rely on irrationality or weird 4D chess false-flag explanations.
Why not consider those first, in turn?
Re:Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding
by gitanovic on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @04:19AM
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Because Putin is a rational actor, the invasion of Ukraine was a huge miscalculation on his side, he thought it would have been a Blitzkireg, and it became a trench war for which he was not prepared
Your arguments are valid but what baffles me in this topic is why folks try so hard to find completely rational explanations for russian actions now. People with hurt egos do stupid things all the time. Look at the clusterf*k that is Ukraine, how they keep doing stupid things that hurt them on and on.