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Originally Posted by SunnySide
Good informative article, thank you Chico.
Lots of moving parts and competing interests.
1. Sanctions werent stopping the pipeline which is almost done completion anyway
2. Germany really wanted it and I do think we had to make ally amends
3. Sucks for Ukraine as apparently they will be circumvented and wont get a transit fee
4. Makes Germany and western Europe even more energy dependent on Russia
5. Cheap natural gas from Russia means no incentives to develop green energy and energy alternatives
My take away, it seemed it was going to happen no matter what so we chose to work with an ally in Germany.
This seems to be a though out diplomatic foreign relation decision.
Adults in charge.
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There still is no defending the Keystone pipeline decision. That was straight on virtue signaling that actually hurt the environment (That dirty-crude will now primarily be exported and refined to dirtier refineries in China and to a lesser extent transported in more polluting trains (Much more damaging than pipelines) to the US).