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Sweden Closes Investigation of Pipeline Blasts, but Stays Silent on Cause (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

At the time, Germany was on the fence about sanctions because they were getting gas via the Nordstream from Russia and didn't want to endanger that. Sudden, completely unexpected lack of gas from Russia = no impediment to backing sanctions. And that's how it turned out.

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