to protect JOBS probably

Ukraine to defend themselves.

Do you think the people of eastern ukraine have a right to defend themselves?

china dominates the consumer goods market, period. by these standards the chinese have been supplying every NATO war for the past 20 years.

they would never attack germany. its too risky.

ok there were no risks involved. even if they bombed the pipeline, they will surely pay reparations.

ok they won't ever pay reparations. but its not like they have to. we were never going to use the pipeline anyways!

i wonder what's next

Why would I have a positive opinion of yanks in the future?

Why ask about the future, when it's a mystery in the present as well. You're the one who thinks they'll pay reparations for something they think you deserved.

You weren't supposed to buy cheap resources from Russia. You never had the permission to.

To be fair, the democrats were absolutely bloodthirsty when Obama was elected warlord and he waged war against the peoples of Syria and Libya. It's a bipartisan problem affecting both liberal parties.

I'm currently serving in the US military and am very confident that Western media at large is on the money

'thank you for your service', you say when someone describes their career pushing paper in the afghani legation quarter

But realistically speaking the US would probably willingly pay damages and reparations.

you really do live in an alternative reality. This is the most insane thing you've written in this entire conversation. And even so:

Materially or in some diplomatic quid pro quo manner and all of that is going to happen behind closed doors and we'll know once records get unsealed.

It's just a cover for how reality slowly sets in. You went from believing that the US would never attack Germany to saying that, actually, the US would totally pay reparations for bombing Nordstream. They'd just do it behind closed doors in order to save face.

You'll get nothing, and you'll be happy to pay all the damages yourself, my friend. And once the records are unsealed you'll be in your 60s, swearing up and down that such skullduggery from the Americans are in the past.

As a third party can see, the risk to the Americans really was zero. Everything to gain, nothing to possibly lose. What, are the Germans gonna rebel somehow? They'll fall over themselves to pretend the chains aren't even there.

it was the standard foreign aid the US throws around to advance it's interests.

It's quite telling that the US has triggered so many coups around the world that you can call it 'the standard foreign aid'. How the hell do you think coups come about?

What? There was no risk and there was a ridiculous amount of money to be made. You have people in the intelligence community talking since the early 2000s how important it is to 'empower poland, to drive a wedge between germany and russia'. The Americans had been threatening to 'do something about' the pipeline for years. And when they did it, the pan European media blackout made sure there was no risk involved. You yourself is a proof of that.

Meanwhile Europe will deindustrialize while paying hand over fist for American gas. They must also continue to dismantle their welfare state and spend that money in American weapons. But european governments don't care, they are all personally invested in american investment funds shares anyway. Why else would the german foreign minister claim that the opinion of german voters are not relevant to her?

Vassals at least had a two way relationship with the King. This is borderline colonial.

comment number 5 by guy who definitely wouldn't waste his time and was definitely not owned