The Russians have been trying to use energy as leverage, and on Monday they announced that the amount of natural gas flowing through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline will be reduced
False. The maintenance of the turbines is pre-scheduled for their whole lifetime, it's always done in the summer - it has nothing to do with using energy as leverage.
Germany could finish the paperwork for Nord Steam 2, give back all the confiscated Russian goods and frozen money, pay the gas in rubles, and ignore the screams of the US-Neocons - and the "crisis" would be over tomorrow.
Get out of here with your logic and facts.
Canada has been holding up the repairs of the turbines
Yes, but then we'd pull out of Germany, and...Fulda Gap... I DO think this will be a critical winter in the US, on many levels & across the board.
Most US troops have already moved to Poland, only the intelligence community and some logistics stayed in Germany. The Poles are happy that they were chosen to fight the Russians to the last Pole.
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