Also economy is struggling. Highest inflation since decades. War is a good business, unifying nations. “Great Solution”.
Why would Russia act in the way it has been to *prevent* a project that is generally going to act in its favour? As far as we know in the public domain, their demands have revolved around NATO not this.
Feels a strangely parochial attitude to have to world affairs.
I’m of the personal opinion that this began due to Boris Johnson needing a distraction from Partygate, with someone saying ‘oh, there are Russian troops on the Ukrainian border’.
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The issue in any event is that those troops have always been there, the military training with Belarus has often happened for many years (it’s very common to see Russian troops when in Belarus, more so outside Minsk in the regional cities such as Baranovichi, Brest, Orsha, Vitebsk etc), and there was nothing about the situation at all at that time that was unusual, especially as the border between Russia and Ukraine and especially in the Crimean peninsula has always been heavily barracked for the 10 years I’ve been travelling the region on a regular basis.
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Nordstream may or may not play a part in this, but definitely it’s not the main or only reason Europe is in the condition it’s in right now.
So Russia places a large chunk of its armed forces in Ukraine’s border to force a stop to one of its newest and richest gas export contracts ?
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Also economy is struggling. Highest inflation since decades. War is a good business, unifying nations. “Great Solution”.
Why would Russia act in the way it has been to *prevent* a project that is generally going to act in its favour? As far as we know in the public domain, their demands have revolved around NATO not this.
Feels a strangely parochial attitude to have to world affairs.
I’m of the personal opinion that this began due to Boris Johnson needing a distraction from Partygate, with someone saying ‘oh, there are Russian troops on the Ukrainian border’.
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The issue in any event is that those troops have always been there, the military training with Belarus has often happened for many years (it’s very common to see Russian troops when in Belarus, more so outside Minsk in the regional cities such as Baranovichi, Brest, Orsha, Vitebsk etc), and there was nothing about the situation at all at that time that was unusual, especially as the border between Russia and Ukraine and especially in the Crimean peninsula has always been heavily barracked for the 10 years I’ve been travelling the region on a regular basis.
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Nordstream may or may not play a part in this, but definitely it’s not the main or only reason Europe is in the condition it’s in right now.
So Russia places a large chunk of its armed forces in Ukraine’s border to force a stop to one of its newest and richest gas export contracts ?