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Gas was providing Russia a strong leverage in its relationship with Europe.

This leverage is now gone.

It will only make the whole region more unstable, more dependent on other international powers.

Friendly backstabbing from your allies is not something unheard of.

This winter people will die of cold, because somebody needed to make a point and get everyone on board.

Politics can be harsh sometime, but you cannot make an omelet without breaking some eggs.

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> but you cannot make an omelet without breaking some eggs.

That's such a benign metaphor that it barely even fits. Saying "you can't make an international peace treaty without murdering a bunch of random vulnerable innocents", and it sounds properly gruesome, although I admit it doesn't roll as trippingly off the tongue.

Are they really your allies? The US has blocked flights from Europe during the coronavirus for a long time. At some point, it was possible to go from North Africa, through Turkey to the USA. But people from Europe could not do that; and that's after the coronavirus pandemic was worse in the US.

I think people are delusional if they think the US is Europe best ally. It's not. And they (the US) clearly see Europe as a threat to their rule-based world order.

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