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Originally Posted by HunterICX
Ehm.... about that:
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Yes, but that was right before the war started and wa sobvious (at least for some) to come.
When Biden took over from Trump, Trumps threats - supported both by Republicans and Democrats by majority! - of punishing sanctions against every company participating in the Nordsstream 2 construction were part of the heritage he took over. And he prevented the sanctions, who already were in flight to their targets, so to speak, to hit, instead called them back, he did not like it, but he did, in a bid to not risk serious diplomatic conflict with germany: that the US would have won, but at the cost of a grumbling Germany, and Biden thought it was better to have a better start with Germany at the beginning of his own term,m for the sake of cooperation. - But all that is history now.
My main argument against a US attack is what I already said one page earlier. If it were the US and it would become revealed, the diplomatic repurcussions would be immense. Even more so since it was not even tried to make this appear as an acicdent. Its obvious that it was an intended strike.
What if the EU would strike gas terminals in the US with explosives and destroy them to a degree that they cannot be sued again because many Europeans do not like fracking gas and want the Us to stop fracking? The US would not be amused, and the daily transatlantical small talk would know only one topic.