“I find it very unfortunate that this entire discussion has come to focus on who blew [the pipelines] up, rather than who built them,” Heorhii Tykhyi told the BBC, forcefully.
He argued that Nord Stream had “untied Russia’s hands” to go to war, because it no longer needed to transit Ukraine for its gas to reach Europe.
“Did we warn about this? We did,” Tykhyi wanted to know. “Did anyone listen to us? No, no-one did.”
Wait, resource extraction and peace? How are yours examples of peace? To me they are extreme examples of a war with one side dominating the other so much that they win the war outright, sometimes without even fighting. Even the Gulf stakes keep killing people, which I cannot agree is peace to anyone who doesn’t close their eyes.
Yeah, well, “peace” in the sense of “the opposite of declared international war”.
I am aware of the oppression, that’s actually the point. The “nations” legitimately or other have “agreed” to a peace deal that still definitely harms people, but less than in a full on “war”. There specifically isn’t an installed colonial administration or something. They’re did fake-ish elections and manipulated the democracy to put their supporters on top.
They’re not marching literal millions to either front lines to die, or into death camps. That’s the bar I’m referring to. An extremely shitty one, no argument there.