North Stream was the problem, not blowing it up

After four years, a Ukrainian man is set to stand trial in Hamburg accused of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines.

"I find it very unfortunate that this entire discussion has come to focus on who blew [the pipelines] up, rather than who built them," Heorhii Tykhyi told the BBC, forcefully.

He argued that Nord Stream had "untied Russia's hands" to go to war, because it no longer needed to transit Ukraine for its gas to reach Europe.

"Did we warn about this? We did," Tykhyi wanted to know. "Did anyone listen to us? No, no-one did."

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Rose 36 points a day ago

Another source I spoke to was "eaten alive by anxiety" over the investigation and baffled that Germany, a close ally of Ukraine, was even pursuing prosecution.

What's so baffling there? The act of building the pipeline showed where Germany stands, or rather bends over, in relation to Russia.

Poland is great about this though:

Last year, he was arrested in Warsaw on a warrant issued by Germany but a Polish judge refused to extradite him.

In a dramatic twist, he ruled instead that a Ukrainian attack on Nord Stream, if that was what happened, would be a "just" act in a "bloody and genocidal war".

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mapto 20 points a day ago

Germany is not a single person, its ruling politicians in the last quarter of a century are all equally spineless. The Greens showed spine but this didn't seem to bring them sustained support at home.

Even worse, this generation of spineless leaders also got the upper hand throughout Europe, with the EPP and many EU institutions dominated by Germans. Let's hope this pyrrhic victory sinks them down for good.

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eestileib 24 points a day ago

The German State sold out to Russia incredibly fast. Schröder deserves to sleep in a Lego bed every night.

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gravitas_deficiency 2 points 2 hours ago

Germany has a lot of war guilt to this day. And that’s not bad, per se, but at the same time, it has provided Germany and the German populace with two absolutely fucking massive geopolitical blind spots: Russia and Israel.

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