I'm an American and yet I find it hard to understand what the U.S. is doing. From what I've read, it certainly seems we blew up the pipeline between Germany and Russia. The question is why would we do that? My thinking is that this has to do largely with the CIA. I presume the CIA analysis of Russia leads them to conclude that Russia (though a much smaller economy) is still a threat because it knows how to overthrow governments and get pro-Russian ones installed (like they did in Ukraine and not unlike what we do as well), and secondly, its energy supplies means it has huge leverage over other countries. Thus, the CIA probably wanted to thwart the leverage Russia had over Germany.
To my thinking then, Russia is a threat to the Western elites that America rules over, and they figure it's best to deal with Russia now before it gets stronger. Assuming this is true, they can't exactly tell the American people that's what they're really doing, and so they use propaganda instead to maintain the support they need for the ongoing war.
What would you do if you thought Russia was slowly but methodically pushing to get countries to move into their orbit? Consider Vietnam and how America tried to stop Soviet expansionism, only to see popular support for the war eventually fall apart. Could they have decided they no longer can really tell us what they're doing? And could they be doing what they think is "best for the world", even though it seems pretty crazy looking in from the outside?
Worse, by going the secretive route, could they not be more subject to manipulation themselves?
I'm an American and yet I find it hard to understand what the U.S. is doing. From what I've read, it certainly seems we blew up the pipeline between Germany and Russia. The question is why would we do that? My thinking is that this has to do largely with the CIA. I presume the CIA analysis of Russia leads them to conclude that Russia (though a much smaller economy) is still a threat because it knows how to overthrow governments and get pro-Russian ones installed (like they did in Ukraine and not unlike what we do as well), and secondly, its energy supplies means it has huge leverage over other countries. Thus, the CIA probably wanted to thwart the leverage Russia had over Germany.
To my thinking then, Russia is a threat to the Western elites that America rules over, and they figure it's best to deal with Russia now before it gets stronger. Assuming this is true, they can't exactly tell the American people that's what they're really doing, and so they use propaganda instead to maintain the support they need for the ongoing war.
What would you do if you thought Russia was slowly but methodically pushing to get countries to move into their orbit? Consider Vietnam and how America tried to stop Soviet expansionism, only to see popular support for the war eventually fall apart. Could they have decided they no longer can really tell us what they're doing? And could they be doing what they think is "best for the world", even though it seems pretty crazy looking in from the outside?
Worse, by going the secretive route, could they not be more subject to manipulation themselves?