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Breakaway Moldovan region cuts heating and hot water as Russia stops gas flow
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Jan 2025
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Please state your point openly then. It seems you only want to throw shade at Ukraine, not at the invaders and their allies
My point is: The reason Transnistria isn't getting gas is because Ukraine cut off the gas. I'm not trying to make any deep point, just finding the whole "why would Putin leave his own subjects withour water?!" thing weird. Putin's Russia has done many horrible things, but if we start making things up it stops being discussion and becomes a circlejerk.
Russia didn't renew the agreement with ukraine. If I don't pay UPS and my nephew doesn't get his present I don't blame UPS. Should I blame the judge if one of my employees goes to jail for rape, because my customers are impacted?
On the other hand, why should Ukraine allow Russia to keep using their territory to make business?
If Russia won't consider their allies, why should anybody else?
They absolutely shouldn't, but that doesn't change the reality of the situation. If I'm asked "why does Transnistria not getting gas" I'm gonna say "because Ukraine cut it off". If after that I'm asked "should they be blamed for it" I'd say "absolutely not". These two realities can exist simultaneously; they're not mutually exclusive.
The reality is Russia didn't renew the agreement. They decided to stop the delivery. They decided to screw their allies, who knew when the agreement was going to expire.
To put it any other way is excusing Russia and Transnistria for their fuckup. Refer to my previous examples if you want.
I mean there the question becomes: Could Russia renew the agreement? And the answer for that is "not while continuing the war at least", because like you said there's no reason for Ukraine to allow the people invading them to make money using their territories.
So there's a way to renew the agreement, but Russia values more their imperialistic dreams than their allies.
If you're arguing that committing genocide shouldn't have consequences on the other hand...
You just had to strawman me didn't you? I'll just tell you: Your attitude throughout this exchange was insufferable, and if you were talking to someone who doesn't know much about the Ukraine war you'd be pushing them away from whatever idea you were trying to convey.
Not strawman. Fell free again to explain why asking to stop the invasion is too much to ask in order to renew the agreement.
I'm not going to let your bad faith arguments go unchallenged, because I don't want people who don't know much to think what you say isn't BS. If you were to be open instead of tip toeing Russian apologies everybody would know to ignore you, but here we are.
Again, Ukraine's decision to stop the agreement was the right one and only a dumbass would say otherwise. That and the fact that Ukraine is the primary reason Transnistria isn't getting gas right now aren't contradictory in any way and your insistence that Ukraine didn't make a conscious decision to cut that gas is frankly immature.
The agreement ended. Russia didn't renew. So no gas flows.
It's rather easy, frankly. I guess I've explained enough for those who don't know about the topic.