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yeah but they are not even going all out, half-assing everything.

Meanwhile burgers get a little hint that germany is willing to re-open the pipelines and instantly blows them up condemning their allies to freeze in winter. Like a father slapping an unruly kid and putting them on timeout, pretty based.

Basically the pipelines were Russia's only leverage on EU since EU needs that gas to get through this winter in 1 piece, Russia as punishment for sanctions shutdown the pipeline until those were lifted, as the winter aproached social unrest and pressure would increase in Europe making them more likely to drop the sanctions and get the gas flow back. Actually the day before the pipelines were destroyed there was a big protest in Germany asking for the sanctions to be lifted.

United States have no need for Russian gas so they want to keep the sanctions and since europe was starting to show remote signs of wavering they decided to blow up the pipelines and permanently shut down the flow of gas and condemning EU to a harsh winter.

Now that EU can't get that gas anyways they have no reasons to drop the sanctions on Russia.