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Slovakia pulled support, Belgium is saying it's F-16s are "too old," Poland is confused, Germany's Leopard 1s are "defective," and the UK has made no indication it plans to send more Challenger 2s after the destruction of the supposedly "invincible" tank on the battlefield back in September.

Russia destabilized the West by... doing no effective work?

Ah yes, because Russia is simultaneously an authoritarian regime where Putin holds all power and an oligarchy where the Kremlin is feckless. If he wanted to prevent the taps from turning on, he could have just arranged for a false flag strike on the terminals or sabotaged the terminals in some other way (which, by the way, would be on Russian soil).

What do you believe Russia gains by bombing Nordstream or the Balticconnector?

Nobody's given one ounce of motive.

Just like the Nordstream attacks were all Russia, too?

The West's progressively decreasing support? That support?

The "Russian vessel" story is literally the exact same story told about Nordstream. Russia has full control over Nordstream flow already because one of the terminals of Nordstream is IN RUSSIA. Russia gains no advantage from bombing Nordstream, not even as a false flag, because no Russian gives a fuck about the bombing of German infrastructure.

Then let's play Occam's razor: who wins if Nordstream is permanently out of commission? Who wins if Balticconnector is permanently out of commission?

It's not Russia, because they're not pumping gas through the pipelines anyway. In fact, it's rather harmful to post-war Russian reintegration with the EU.

The easiest explanation isn't that Russia would attack third-party infrastructure between two NATO countries when, by all accounts, US support is drying up and EU support is dropping like flies.

I too enjoy waking up to another false flag operation. It's literally the exact same story used for Nordstream, which is incredibly lazy as far as false flag operations go.

Both sides are posturing and blaming the other side for their ramp up. It's a bilateral escalation that's going to push us closer to nuclear war. Again.

Why would the West investigate Ukrainian terrorism when it's trying to get countries to support Ukrainian aid?

It would be a Ukrainian attack on German infrastructure. That's... Not really great when you're asking Germany to supply you with more tanks.