Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Let's be clear there is zero chance the us did it, I would bet everything I own on it. A country whose ideology is to export capital markets and development to help enrich itself and enhance it's own security is not in the business of blowing up infrastructure of it's allies. It's a ludicrous suggestion.

If it becomes obvious that Russia are "all in", you'll probably see more sabotaging of infrastructure.

However, I very much doubt that either Russia or Ukraine would go "all in" and destroy any hope of a negotiated settlement.

If Ukraine or the west weren't hoping for some sort of future settlement, they would probably have blown up the Crimean bridge already for example. But they know that Russia would be even less likely to abandon their land bridge to Crimea in those circumstances.

These countries will always maintain certain bargaining chips to use as leverage for future negotiations. It would be foolish not to, regardless of what they say publicly.

You're right, and that makes more sense - the news sites were awash with the 2015 agreement (which was even controversial at the time). Thanks for the clarification.

In fact, as someone else mentioned above, the US has removed its arms embargo on Cyprus as they have agreed to ban Russian naval ships from their ports (and have agreed to US monitoring of this). From September 25th 2022:

Well unless you understand Russian, you won't know if they are genuine or fake ( as some are saying, and they could well be right) But even just going by facial expressions, and general attitude ( especially the she witch) there's a change in mannerisms anyway. All that previous Gung-Ho positive attitude seems to be not so prevalent anymore.

Look at what they did with their commercial airline industry at a cost of multiple billions...

Cutting off nose to spite face? Yes. Russia have already done so.

So you do because you are chairlviant and you knew they were coming? How very odd!

But its not their allies infrastructure, its Russia's infrastructure which they are using to blackmail Germany.

Having it taken out of the picture means there is no more blackmail. There is now no situation in which Germans come to Russia agreeing to lift sanctions or stop supplying arms to Ukraine in exchange for much needed gas, because the pipeline now has 3 Steven Seagal shaped holes in them.

And the day before there was a protest in Germany about reopening nord-stream, timing is impeccable

Of all the spellings of that word I've seen, chairl-viant takes the cake 🤣🤣

You in that post, imagining your opinions are somehow facts... they're not. They're just opinions.

Oh, and there were zero insults in my reply, so not sure where you're getting that from? We're all a bunch of nobody's on the internet, expressing our opinions.

Like I said, I'll make my own mind up thanks.

I'd *imagine that valves could be closed at certain stages leaving just one stage "flooded" that could be individually repaired.

The next question is whether russia have sent anyone to assess the damage and limit the impact.

I would think this is very unlikely.

Putin is not universally liked, but then neither is the west.

The west is praying for a revolt or someone to take out Putin, but Russians really don't like when the west tries to tell them how to run their country. Or interfere in their region in general. And besides, there are many people in Russia who share Putin's views on Ukraine. (even if they don't necessarily agree with his present actions there)