The US has urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, warning that the drone strikes risk driving up global oil prices and provoking retaliation, according to three people familiar with the discussions. […]
One person said that the White House had grown increasingly frustrated by brazen Ukrainian drone attacks that have struck oil refineries, terminals, depots and storage facilities across western Russia, hurting its oil production capacity.
Russia remains one of the world’s most important energy exporters despite western sanctions on its oil and gas sector. Oil prices have risen about 15 per cent this year, to $85 a barrel, pushing up fuel costs just as US President Joe Biden begins his campaign for re-election.
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It’s just hilarious that the US will bomb Nordstream and push Europe into crisis, whilst resisting any action that might raise their oil prices in the election year.
Just so one-sided it’s incredible.
It’s not yet proven that it was the US, no? I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised at all, but I still don’t know that’s a fact.
Most people suspect it was Ukraine, honestly. But there’s a bunch of people who will try to blame America every chance they get.
If Ukraine did it it definitely wasn’t without American support and advice.
Fact? It’s a full fledged conspiracy theory, with zero actual proof supporting it.
You mean like all the other conspiracy theories about the USA?
That they secretly made a weapons deal with Iran to get money to support the Contras in Nicaragua for example. That they helped to kill democratically elected Allende and install the dictator Pinochet. That they staged a false flag operation to take over the Vietnam war from the French. That they helped take down democratically elected Mossadegh in Iran and install the Shah. That they produced false evidence as pretext to invade Irak. Two times. That they tried many times to assassinate Fidel Castro.
Sorry, but things happening in the world matching American interests makes me suppose they did it. I am convinced they did it. I am old, I can’t wait 30 years for the archives to open till I blame somebody.
They did it!
But that’s what Hegemons do, that’s how hegemony works, everything for yourself. No matter at what costs, the others are going to pay the price. What I consider ironic, that all the American people (the not so rich part of it) gets out of that status is feeling good for being a superpower.
Which is exactly what the population of the Soviet Union was granted from their government. And they are supporting a war to regain that status.
I can’t wait to watch the American empire to go down.
The US government had nothing to gain by destroying that pipeline.
That’s just not true.
(I still don’t think they did it, but I do think they cheered when it happened.)
This is not to say that they did do the bombing, but the US had and has an economic interest in Europe buying US controlled oil and gas over buying Russian controlled oil and gas.
Yes that’s true, but I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about the claim that the US government destroyed Nord Stream to force the EU to buy LNG from US companies.
No, of course not, America would never force anybody to buy their stuff.
They destroyed NordStream to support Europe in becoming independent of cheap Russian gas.