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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: 0.716s | 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. g42gregory ◴[16 Sep 25 18:00 UTC] No.45265587[source]▶
My, admittedly layman, understanding is that it was a very difficult thing to do from a technical perspective. And that there are very few countries that have technical capabilities to accomplish this. Ukraine is not one of them.
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2. JumpCrisscross ◴[16 Sep 25 18:25 UTC] No.45265924[source]▶
> it was a very difficult thing to do from a technical perspective

Why would you conclude this where every intelligence and law enforcement agency that has looked into it and published a report has found the opposite?

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3. g42gregory ◴[16 Sep 25 20:14 UTC] No.45267383[source]▶
I have no basis to conclude anything in this matter. I saw multiple news reports/interviews to that effect. True/not - you get to decide based on news you hear.

Do you have a basis to conclude that "every intelligence and law enforcement agency that has looked into it and published a report has found the opposite"? You exhaustively went through all Western intelligence and law enforcement agencies and read their reports? So you are quoting other news articles/interviews. Apparently their views differed. Ok.