Comments by "SHROOMY" (@shroomyesc) on "Reporter Seymour Hersh on "How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline": Exclusive TV Interview" video.

  1. Goes without saying, absolutely atrocious. The amount of greenhouse gases released was equivalent to 1% of Germany's (huge economy) yearly CO2 output.
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  2.  @galanis38  I think besides what other people have pointed out the (paraphrasing) "...how many of his own citizens Zelenskyy is willing to kill" puts the blame of the conflict ongoing on the Ukrainian national government squarely, and betrays his position on the conflict
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  3. I have mixed feelings. For one, I think as do many others that it's blatantly useful at least economically for the US to have blown up the pipeline, and it's not useful at all for Russia to have done so as they had less destructive ways of shutting off gas (as they were already threatening) so the idea that the US blew the pipeline up is founded in reality. However I'm less on board with the sentiment that European countries would be willing to leave NATO. As it stands, Europe doesn't have the collective military collaboration required to leave NATO (for transparency, I support a federal EU or at the very least a unified EU armed forces and stronger cooperation) to not fall back in line with Russian resource dependency at the cost of Eastern Europe if leaving NATO. I am also extremely suspicious of anyone who leads the invasion with (paraphrasing) how many of his own people Zelenskyy is willing to kill, as this clearly puts the blame of the ongoing conflict on the Ukrainian government as opposed to Russia's refusal to give up on their aspirations of Eastern European vassal states. Russia is slaughtering their own people too with this war, do not forget. I come from an Eastern European country that has done nothing but suck up to Russia at almost every turn after WW2 ended, to appease them and keep them as a friendly neighbour. It got us nowhere. Any American suggesting European collaboration with Russia is a good idea is foolish, and people like him are most likely tempted by this ideal because of their decades of witnessing and reporting US interference in eastern countries at the cost of human life. I think Nordstream was always a mistake so I'm not sad that it's gone, but that's not to say that I approve of US meddling in European affairs this directly, nevermind the horrific environmental impact right off my coastline.
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  4. Germany has always put the economy above everything else, working closer with Russia certainly would help! Who cares about those dirty eastern Europeans anyways, right? Maybe instead we should dream of a more united EU rather than reliance on larger global powers like Russia or the US.
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  5. Russia was threatening to tighten the flow of gas to Europe if they supported Ukraine, well before the Nordstream explosion. This provided a great excuse for the US to blow the pipeline up, however obviously Russia wouldn't blow it up themselves, they would just close the taps instead. But they were already weaponizing the gas. Selling at below price is exactly weaponizing the gas by making Europe dependent on Russian resources to later hold it against them, and clearly they were successful.
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