Comments by "John Adam" (@johnadam2885) on "Nord Stream sabotage and hybrid war on Europe" video.
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The sort of nonsense Nielsen spouts is of the same variety as Russia shelled the nuclear installaton it owns in Zaphorizia, or that it used a missile to destroy a POW camp housing Azov Nazis. Were those also because they are losing the war and their mental equilibrium is affected ?
Nielsen's starting point is his assumption that Russia is losing the war and Ukraine and the west is winning. This is self consoling western propaganda. The fact is Russia has taken 20% of Ukraine, it is strangling Ukraine's economy, it has cut off Ukrainian exports from the Black Sea. Russia is even strangling the western economy, successfully. It is de-industrialising Europe.
The strong cards are in Russia's hands. Ukraine has made some advances here and there, but it is not sufficient to roll back Russia. Russia holds the nuclear sword and can use it.
If 'crazy Russia' self sabotaged the Nordstream pipeline, then they can go and do the same to the Baltic pipeline, and use the nuclear weapon in Ukraine. Can Nielsen tell us what the west can do if 'crazy Russia' does these two things ? Put more sanctions ? Go to the UN ? Shout about war crimes ?
The west feels defeated as Putin has punctured its 'international order', The west does not have the military power or the courage to fight Russia directly, and does not have the economic power it imagined it had. All such analyses based on pyschological conditions of the opponent are indicators of the wishful thinking of the defeated. We heard similar psycho analysis of Putin's state of mind in the first month, the western media said he had a hand tremor, he had cancer, and he did not sit with others as he was distrustful. Yet, the ex tempore speech that Putin gave recently on re-taking the four provinces was brilliant. No western leader can speak with the same knowledge of history and geopolitical understanding as Putin.
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