You are 100% not German that is for sure, everything you write is completely un-German, culturally speaking, and your English is native, flawless English. Everything you wrote in this post is either changing topics, misrepresenting facts, taking content out of context, or factually plain wrong. For a last time, I go through each of your statements:
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I guess your brother in law is probably in the same cult as you? I'm not surprised that he might have a different opinion. But seriously, I don't care. I'm not going to discuss Germany, what we think of privacy, our opinions about aliens and every scandal since the Roman Empire. I'm telling you, you are wrong, and bombing the infrastructure in the EU while tensions between NATO and Russia raise WOULD be a whole different universe. And what for? Nord Stream was already dead. That's it.
Germans care a hell of a lot about privacy issues and concerns, your comment shows that you have not the slightest idea what you are talking about. Nord Stream was right about opening up until the US had a fit and even discussed sanctions in the Senate how to inject themselves and stop the project from completion. It was the US that tried everything in its power to stop the flow of gas from Russia to Europe through the new pipeline.
I'm telling you again and AGAIN that NS 1+2 was DEAD already. How is that for gas dependency? Zero gas dependency. Issues for Germany are solved already. Our gas tanks are nearly full. Without Russia. Dependency on Russia is zero percent. And it will never come back. Germany will never order gas from Russia ever again. Even if Putin dies tomorrow and the kindest, nicest man in the universe would take over and give everything back to Ukraine. Not even then.
German gas supplies, if entirely full, last 2.5 months. Any longer than usual winter will mean Germany runs out of its reserves. If there was no dependency on Russia then gas and oil and petrol prices would not be as high as they currently are. Gas prices exploded 20% to the upside right after the news of the sabotage made headlines. That is how Russian gas impacts Europe. Deny it as much as you like, market prices don't lie.
Hell, you know really nothing at all about Germany. The government already announced a big spending boost for the military of 100 billion Euros months ago.
That was again after Trump threw a huge fit and in his uncontrolled rage threatened the entire Western world. Until then Germany did perfectly well with its low military spending as percent of GDP. Get your history right. Again, you clearly show you are not German or at least have little to no knowledge of German politics. Germany should have never given in and Nato could have easily been reduced to adjust to lower contributions and everything would have been fine and business as usual without the US moaning.
That was a lot of BS and not a single sentence of all of it was true. Not even one.
But Russia has an incredibly strong interest in chaos and hostility IN Europe AND between Europe and US, because EU and US are Russian enemies, especially since Russia started a war in Europe, in case you didn't notice.
This makes zero sense. If Russia wanted to sting the US's heel it would befriend Europe and sign trade deals and cooperate otherwise. Again, Russia and Europe have conducted trade for centuries, long before the first white man set foot on the American continent. Its a complicated relationship but it is a longstanding relationship nonetheless. Russia and Europew both benefit greatly by conducting trade and by engaging in limited partnerships. They have done so for centuries.
So we are back where we came from. There are a gazillion strong reasons for Russia to bomb Nord Stream and none for the US.
That is your conclusion that you pulled out of thin air. It makes zero sense for Russia to bomb that pipeline. They could have continued to use the same excuses of maintenance or repairs as before in delaying or entirely stopping to send gas through the pipeline. None of those excuses would trigger contractually agreed penalty payments to Germany. Even if Russia had to pay then it would be peanuts for them. They have already wasted hundreds of millions in the past to serve their strategic interests, why should they be afraid to pay now, especially in Rubel as agreed? Without the bombing Russia would have 100% control over whether it wanted to again send gas or not. This option is now off the table at least until the pipeline will be repaired. This does not serve Russia's interest in the slightest. There is only one single party that greatly benefits from this sabotage: The US!!! There is not a single reason left on the table that would point to Russia unless its leader was stupid or retarded. Putin is clearly one of the world's most intelligent and strategically thinking statesmen over the past several decades. He probably runs circles around the entire US Senate and you can for the fun of it throw in the US house of representatives as well.
That's it, unless you have some factually correct information to share and can be honest in your arguments, unlike how you conducted yourself so far, there is not much else to discuss between us on this issue.
