• GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml
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    The United States of America has already won the war. The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline lies idle, and EU countries have imposed extensive sanctions on Russia.

    What American strategists feared was a Russia–Germany tandem leveraging Russian energy and German technology.

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      And now Germany suffers because it can’t access Russian energy. Win/Win for the US.

      I think that’s a short-term victory, though. In the long run this will drive the EU away from the US.