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Re:Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home fro... by holowoodman on Monday June 23, 2025 @07:54AM (#44354825)
The official line in Germany is actually that Ukraine most probably did it: https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/ndr-wdr/nordstream-17... https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/nord-stream-s... https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/nord-stream-pipeline-explos...

Knowledge or agreement by Selensky is unclear, but there seem to be hints. Poland might have been complicit or at least turned a blind eye and seems to have let a wanted suspect escape to Ukraine.

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Re:Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home fro... by bluecalm on Monday June 23, 2025 @08:02AM (#44354896)
From purely incentive based analysis I would bet on Ukraine/Poland as well. I am Polish and the news was received very warmly here by both citizens and government officials.
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Re:Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home fro... by petre on Monday June 23, 2025 @08:37AM (#44355169)
The news of the Nordstream bombings was received warmly in most of Central and Eastern Europe, not just Poland. The men and women who carried out the operation are heroes.
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Re:Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home fro... by dontlaugh on Monday June 23, 2025 @09:16AM (#44355530)
I don’t think that’s true. I know people in many Eastern European countries and the general opinion was dismay at a US proxy stoking war.
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Re:Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home fro... by vintermann on Monday June 23, 2025 @08:50AM (#44355279)
Even if someone else did it other than the obvious culprit, it could not have been done without US blessing and assistance.
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Re:Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home fro... by pydry on Monday June 23, 2025 @08:11AM (#44354963)
Politics dictated this official line just like the previous official line of "Russia did it".
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