• Muad'DibberA
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    2 years ago

    Ukraine has been invading and bombing the donbass with impunity since 2014, over 8k civilians killed in that time. Defending their border areas, and the lives of russian-speaking peoples, is a core strategic interest. Keeping those areas stable does help their profit in the long term. Why was Ukraine attacking the donbass, if that’s wrecking their country now?

    And it’s not like that pipeline is bringing them profit now.

    That’s the US’s goal, not Russia’s! Russia very much wants to continue selling gas via the pipelines.

    on an unreliable source of energy.

    When the US sabotages infrastructure projects, they’re “unreliable”. This is like saying I burned down your farm, so you must have no interest in keeping it since its unreliable.