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Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months by hcurtiss on Sunday December 11, 2022 @10:38AM (#33944037)
Why would you say that? His speech specifically referenced energy security and Russia’s increasing ability to blackmail Europe.
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Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months by tsbinz on Sunday December 11, 2022 @11:01AM (#33944287)
His speech also came after Europe already realized that in 2014 when the Crimea was annexed [0], and countries didn't want to go too hard with sanctions cause of the dependency. The obvious motive for the speech was a desire to sell US gas to Europe.

[0] For example see a policy brief from the european parliament in 2014: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2014/5364...

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Re:The five-year engineering feat Germany pulled off in months by hcurtiss on Sunday December 11, 2022 @12:15PM (#33945071)
Yet Germany insisted on proceeding with Nordstream 2 anyway. And the US has now spent a hundred billion pushing back an emboldened Russia.
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