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Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

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151 points hunglee2 | 2 comments | 16 Sep 25 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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bilekas ◴[16 Sep 25 14:20 UTC] No.45262603[source]▶
No. This was alleged to be taken out by Ukrainian special forces in order to twist Europe's arm, which is a good thing in the end, but so far as anyone knows it had nothing to to with the US. Until I hear anything proving otherwise I will take what we know as all we know for now.

The US were not thrilled about it when it was being constructed, obviously, but this was normal tensions towards Russia, prescient in the end but here we are.

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atmosx ◴[16 Sep 25 14:25 UTC] No.45262682[source]▶
> [...] as anyone knows it had nothing to to with the US

ROLF - that must up there with "we want the hostages back and we're actively working towards that goal".

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bilekas ◴[16 Sep 25 15:14 UTC] No.45263440[source]▶
If you have some more actual evidence outside of assumptions I am absolutely willing to hear it out. I just won't sit here and say "Must have been the US" without any insight.
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1. atmosx ◴[16 Sep 25 18:00 UTC] No.45265590{3}[source]▶
> If you have some more actual evidence outside of assumptions I am absolutely willing to hear it out.

https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-germanys-scholz-stress-u...

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2. bilekas ◴[16 Sep 25 18:13 UTC] No.45265763[source]▶
> President Joe Biden said on Monday that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline would be halted if Russia invades Ukraine and stressed unity with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as the West rallies to avert a war in Europe.

Halted.. Absolutely, political pressure on Europe to not sign or use it.

You've made the leap to blowing it up somewhere, that is the stretch I'm not buying until it's admitted to. Personally, as an Irish who knows the history of occupation during tense years, I'm not surprised what a well trained spec ops can do with some basic equipment, so my money is on Ukrainian people just doing something Impressive but I'll wait for the facts to say it's exactly what happened.