Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
by xbmanhg on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:30AM
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That is the US narrative. The truth is that everyone bought Russia oil and uranium, including the US. Blair tried a huge oil deal with BP but was rejected.
The focus on natural gas is very convenient for countries who have natural gas themselves.
The real issue is that the US felt that the EU was trading too much with Russia and China and threatened to develop land routes to China. Additionally, it wanted influence in the Caspian sea region.
That had to be stopped, so the US successfully pushed for the Ukraine war, made the EU get their own hands dirty. And someone blew up Nordstream, "one way or the other".
Now that the EU is cut off from Russia and China and its economies are ruined, Trump may or may not stop the proxy war. And make the EU pay for it.
You know, Germany could get nuclear weapons, then we would not need this magnanimous US "protection".
The focus on natural gas is very convenient for countries who have natural gas themselves.
The real issue is that the US felt that the EU was trading too much with Russia and China and threatened to develop land routes to China. Additionally, it wanted influence in the Caspian sea region.
That had to be stopped, so the US successfully pushed for the Ukraine war, made the EU get their own hands dirty. And someone blew up Nordstream, "one way or the other".
Now that the EU is cut off from Russia and China and its economies are ruined, Trump may or may not stop the proxy war. And make the EU pay for it.
You know, Germany could get nuclear weapons, then we would not need this magnanimous US "protection".