Comments by "" (@badluck5647) on "Nord Stream 2: Putin's pipeline with a problem | CNBC Reports" video.

That is because the Germans are too short sighted to see this makes them dependent on Putin.
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@reneegiese6315 I apologize. I met the "German government" is short sighted instead of the "Germans" are short sighted.
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@mariadamen7886 & the East German government (& its secret police) was a Russian puppet state.
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America: Marshall Plan Russia: Stasi
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@bobbob8866 Russia is a joke on the world stage. Their economy is smaller than Italy, so it has little effect unlike the US or China. In addition, Russia is one of the most unpopular countries in the world, so their soft power is nonexistent. Russians like to bring up the military, but having nukes doesn't seem impressive anymore when the North Koreas can build nukes. The only reason Russia has any relevance is because they inherited the UN security council veto from the Soviet Union (the last time Russia mattered).
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Lab evidence: https://web.archive.org/web/20201006182152/https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/news/2020/10/opcw-issues-report-technical-assistance-requested-germany
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@bobbob8866 I based my statement on the Pew Research Center and their peer reviewed polls. With the invasions of neighbors, the cyber attacks on the West, and the intentional bombing of hospitals & schools in Syria, Russia has alienated themselves from all their friends. Even Belarus, the so-called brother-nation, doesn't even have a favorable view of Russia.
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@Citadin Yet Russia has proved to be an unreliable partner. Just look at Ukraine who has suffered gas cutoffs, cyber attacks, and a military invasion from Russia.
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Russia is sanctioned due to them invading their democratic neighbors and poisoning Putin's opposition. Your false equivalency is only appealing to the paid Russia troll farms.
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Why would any country want to increase their energy dependence on a hostile nation? This is just national security, any non-short sighted country would do the same.
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@jparnold1 So okays okay to send Little Green Men to invade and steal territory, because of unpaid bills. Mexico has unpaid debt and steal gas from pipelines, but you don't hear that as an excuse for America to annex Cozumel.
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@reneegiese6315 Too bad the information is likely blocked from Russian eyes.
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@ZIGZAG12345 Fitts is a crazy person who never seems to be able to produce any evidence of her claims.
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@tiborpurzsas2136 A) Ukraine was trying to join a trade deal with the EU (not a military alliance). Due to all the corruption, Russia wouldn't be able to complete with the EU when it came to trade, so Putin decided to use the military to force Ukraine to stay in its sphere of influence. B) Amnesty International and many other international organizations analyzed the hours of videos of the hospital bombing and concluded that Russia (and not Syria) was the only one capable of such precision when it came to the bombing of hospitals.
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That is because Putin dismantled the free press in Russia.
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@pro-teens9675 Have you not heard of an electric oven or a microwave?
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@reneegiese6315 You know that the quanity of fossil fuels imports isn't necessarily zero-sum? Doubling the amount of imports doesn't mean you double 50%. It not math. It's common sense.
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Reliable partners don't invade, steal territory, and launch cyber attacks.
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@josdesouza Occupied? Germany gets upset everytime American tries to reduce the US troops presence. Meanwhile, other NATO countries are trying to get the US troops move a base to their country. One the other hand is Russia whose troops won't leave Ukraine and Georgia despite the democratically elected governments' demands for them to leave.
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@dirkgonthier101 The democratically elected government of Iraq told US troops to leave under Obama, so the troops were pulled out. After losing a third of the country to ISIS a few years later, the Iraqi government asked the US military to come back. More recently, the Iraqi parliament voted on a non-binding resolution to request the Iraqi PM to expell US troops. Considering it was a political statement from Iran backed politicians and Iraq is still facing ISIS, the US made the right decision to not voluntarily leave until the Iraqi military is ready to defend itself.
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@dirkgonthier101 You are deflecting on how Russia is illegal occupying democratic nations by bringing up how the US has troops in Iraq (at the invitation of the government). Russia loves to use false equivalences to justify their war crimes and human rights violations. Putin doesn't care about international law. He only cares for a pretext to enrich himself.
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Russians never make any money. All the benefits go to Putin and his billionaire friends.
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@jparnold1 It is funny how people who believe in fake news including state propaganda tend to call others sheep.
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@MWENDA-vv5im Most countries diversify their energy supplier for national security reasons. It simply irresponsible to put all your eggs in one basket -- especially when Putin is involved.
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@Kikinho19 The issue is less about buying gas from Russia and more of issue of the lack of diversification from Russian gas is a huge security risk. Let's say that Russia cyber attacks an EU nation and Germany sanctions Russia for it. Russia could then cut off Germany from their energy supply without Germany having much of an alternative set up to prevent blackouts. This would essentially put Germany at the mercy of Putin, because of overdependence on Russia.
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@Kikinho19 Gas from Russia is cheaper from Russia than LNG from America and Qatar, so Russia should be the main supplier to Europe for business reasons. However, energy dependence on one country (especially a bad actor like Russia) is a huge national security issue. Just look at what happened to the US in 1970s when the Arabs cut off gas shipments to the states.
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@pro-teens9675 Unless you get electricity from hydro, nuclear, or some other renewables. You don't need gas to cook food.
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@cyjaseyoung8004 I think the German government is blinded to the obvious due large amount money donated to politicians from special interests groups. There is a reason Russia is paying so much to a German ex-PM to lobby for the pipeline.
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Russians choose to be willfully ignorant that Putin would use dependency on Russia gas as geopolitical tool to punish any country that harms the interests of Putin and his pet oligarchs. Putin already cuts gas off from Ukraine and Belarus every time the countries act too independently or tries to move out of Russia's very small sphere of influence.
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To be clear, the US is not telling Germany to not buy Russian gas. Germany is already getting over 50% of their fossil fuels from Russia and Putin's pipeline will double the amount of gas coming in. To not diversify your energy supply, especially from a hostile nation, would be a huge security risk. Last thing anyone wants is the EU to be unable to sanction Putin for another assassinion, cyber attack, or invasion of a neighboring country, because Germany is afraid that Russia will stop gas shipments. Clearly, the Russia trolls don't see this as an issue, but Germany and the rest of the west do.
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Wow! Your ability to take things out of context is impressive. America has troops in countries around the world at the request of countries (even Iraq and Afghanistan want a US presence to help them with insurgents). These countries get American protection, while Americans get a safer world where they can trade. All of your criticisms are extremely dated and most involve the cold war. With America as the sole superpower, the world has never been a better place. There hasn't been a time in human history has there been so few deaths due to war and trade has been so wide spread than now. The free trade and peace under American leadership has seen massive economic growth and poverty reduction around the world.
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@dirkgonthier101 I got work to do, and you are trying to assign me homework. I'm not waisting my time to fact check your out-of-context bull s****. Especially considering that no one, but you read your comment.
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@tiborpurzsas2136 Assad and Russia barely fought ISIS, and the Assad government was the primary customer to ISIS oil. They let the kurds do all the fighting against ISIS, while Russia and Syria focused their attacks on Sunni rebels in the north and the south.
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@tiborpurzsas2136 That was true, but when the Kurds became a buffer between Turkey and ISIS, Assad became the primary purchaser of ISIS oil.
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@tiborpurzsas2136 Again, that was true, but when the Kurds became a buffer between Turkey and ISIS, Assad became the primary purchaser of ISIS oil.
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@VirgoAtheist0971 Thier data and methodology is peer reviewed and available to the public to view. Just because you don't like the results, doesn't mean they don't reflect public opinion.
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@LancesArmorStriking Still a joke. The "soft power" power Russia has is its ability to sell weapons to countries who Americans wouldn't trust with military hardware (which is saying something). They just pick up America's scaps. Also, your global warming claim is bogus. America is the largest net exporter for food, so self efficiency won't be an issue unlike importers like Russia. Lastly, if people saw Russia as having a growing, prosperous future like China or America, then you would see foreign investment in the country outside oil and gas.
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@bobshenix Just because a Russian air campaign against northern rebels and civilians happened at the same time as the Kurds and America pushing ISIS out of their territory in the east doesn't mean Russia contributed anything to fight against ISIS. It would be like the Saudis saying ISIS didn't disappear until their bombings in Yemen.
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@VirgoAtheist0971 Funny. I expect you are getting paid for endless comments by troll farm in St. Petersburg. That or you just have a ton of free time due to Russia's constant rate of high unemployment.
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You clearly lack any critical thinking. In order to sanction bad actors, you need more leverage over them than they have over you. If Germany is overreliant on Russian gas, then Germany can't sanction Russia for poisoning the opposition, poisoning foreigners, cyber attacks, invading their neighbors, stealing territory from their neighbors, and election interference without risking the German economy be completely cut off from their primary source of electricity.
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@jaytheexplorer9016 I forgot to mention Russia's targeted airstrikes on hospitals in Chechnya and Syria.
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@J__C_ You are equating two different issues. Russian are unfamiliar with messaging from Putin's opposition, because Putin has silenced the free press. However, silencing the free press isn't why Russia is sanctioned by the West. Russia is sanctioned for poisoning Putin's opposition, interfering with foreign elections, and invading its neighbors.
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@scobiesview5137 You literally lose your broadcasting license in Russia if you don't support Putin on your network. On the other hand,, American media is always critical of the president regardless of what party is in power. Which one one sounds more like free press?
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@scobiesview5137 The claim there is a oligarchy in the United States that controls public opinion shows how little you know about America. There are five major new corporations in America, but they all have widely differing opinions; which is a huge hole in your media Illuminati theory. The idea that America has a control of public opinion shows that you are naive about how Americans are divided about EVERTHING when comes to politics. On the other hand is Russia, where all newspapers and news networks have the single opinion that Putin is a flawless leader. Putin made sure any that any news source that has showed a different opinion no longer exists .
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