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Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

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151 points hunglee2 | 3 comments | 16 Sep 25 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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neves ◴[16 Sep 25 14:06 UTC] No.45262447[source]▶
Wasn't it the point of Nord Stream sabotage? https://brian-whit.medium.com/nord-stream-sabotage-a-look-at...
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SiempreViernes ◴[16 Sep 25 14:24 UTC] No.45262665[source]▶
No, Ukrainians bombed it for their own reasons and not on behalf of the US.

The exact reasons aren't entirely clear, originally they hated NS because it allowed Europe to ignore Ukraine in the gas trade which left them more exposed. By the time of the full scale war I would bet the reason was more "fuck Russia" than anything more carefully reasoned.

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1. mikestorrent ◴[16 Sep 25 17:58 UTC] No.45265566[source]▶
Is there some credible reason to actually believe this?
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3. khuey ◴[16 Sep 25 18:16 UTC] No.45265796[source]▶
That Ukrainians did it?

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/ukrainian-man-ar...

That they did it for their own motivations?

It seems at least as plausible that they did it because wanted to hurt Russia as it does that Washington ordered them to do it, to put it mildly. Washington has been supporting Ukraine during the war but has been rather reticent to support attacking Russian assets that are outside the territory of Ukraine.