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Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

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151 points hunglee2 | 1 comments | 16 Sep 25 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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eptcyka ◴[16 Sep 25 14:55 UTC] No.45263152[source]▶
Anything that makes it harder for Russia to make foreign currency and decrease the demand for Rubles is a strategic win for Ukraine.
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AlecSchueler ◴[16 Sep 25 16:12 UTC] No.45264205[source]▶
If it significantly harms the people helping them or curries disfavour towards Ukraine then it could be strategically misguided.

(Not saying that's the case here, all considered)

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Sammi ◴[16 Sep 25 20:37 UTC] No.45267686[source]▶
Those are smaller second order effects. Gutting the income to the Russian war machine is the first order effect and a clear win for Ukraine.
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1. SiempreViernes ◴[17 Sep 25 07:58 UTC] No.45273115[source]▶
Maybe a plausible argument if Ukraine had stopped Russian gas flowing through it's territory at the start of the war and there where flows through NS at the time.

But actually, by the time of the bombing the Russian gas was only flowing through Ukrainian pipelines. So Ukraine was ensuring "income to the Russian war machine", while Nord Stream was just costing them money; at most it could have been used as collateral in a loan.