@DonRF22 writes, surgically, impeccably, as always: The discussion of the claim that Nord Stream 2 was blown up by the Americans is humorous to me.
It was clear from the first minute who did it. Simply because it only benefits one country[—the United States]. But the leak is not surprising at all.
We are entering a new era, the previous one was an era of "tolerance" when things were not called by their proper names, the new one will be an era of candor. To be more precise, it is already here and getting stronger. Is it the Europeans that do not want to buy expensive natural gas? We will make them buy it. Do the elites of the exporting countries think too much of themselves? We will straighten their minds and show them, using Russia as an example, that it is to sic an insane neighbour on them.
Good old colonialism and chauvinism, with a slight whiff of Nazism [GB: the former two are the latter], are returning to the world. And whoever is against it...is against it. That's his personal problem. This was inevitable and it is happening before our eyes.
After all, tolerance was bred by the 'damned Soviets' who gave out AKs and T-55s to the blacks and the Asians, who shot the gringos and caused them real pain, and the EU with its claims to be the centre of power has been eating [the Soviets'] corpse, named CIS, which gave the cheapest of resources. It will be different now. There is the master, there are the vassals and there are the servos. And all in their own names.
GB: The master will fall.