Here are questions to speculate the current situation:
#1
If Russia didn't invaded Ukraine, could Nord Stream 2 stay alive?
Why has Germany halted Nord Stream 2 in Nov. 2021?
#2
Do you think Putin expected + prepared for all those sanctions before this invasion?
What kind of financial damage he's looking at after this operation?
What kind of steps/strategies the CCP would need at the end of their Forced Technology Transfer policy?
#3
What happened in OPEC Conference 2020 for Production Cut Agreement?
What kind of results aforementioned OPEC Conference' outcome has caused for the US oil industry?
What kind of US energy infrastructure the US admin at that time was trying to form? What happened to that plan?
Now,
the questions I am really wondering is:
Did the Rockefellers, Aramco, the Genie Energy faction in DC, the CCP, and the Putin faction reached some kind of deal in 2019, so they together can execute 2020-2021?
Closing:
This whole thing about this invasion ostensibly seems miscalculated and amateurish. And that is exactly why I strongly believe there's a lot more of information we're missing. (Yea, both sides seem to turn their propaganda game up to eleven too.)
They say that "the US & the EU arming Ukraine and eventually let it join NATO" is the reason. Hm. That's all?
(And, regarding letting Ukraine join EU/Nato: after all these years, why now? The EU blocked ex-Soviets' Nato entry for a long time.)
Let me ask:
If you were Putin who would need to choose between A or B -- A: allowing Ukraine to join NATO and B: keeping Nord Stream 2 alive; then which option would you choose?
My guess is that,
some time around 2019, they reached a deal, and an element of that deal guaranteed Putin about Nord Stream 2's operation and the US/EU going easy with arming Ukraine.
But,
last year something probably happened to that deal, which reminded Putin about Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances: If it's true, he realized he also was conned from the last year's deal.
(Bonus: Which Saudi prince Bill Gates suddenly started to support in 2021? Hint: It's not Mohammed bin Salman.)
Thing is I honestly don't think we'll know the true story for decades.
It's possible that he realized he was getting played, but I think he would have seen it coming.
My take:
If Ukraine joins NATO, they basically become the US's (and by proxy Israel's) bitch. That means the only way for Russia to keep the Saudi/Israel pipeline out of Europe would be to keep Syria going ad infinitum. Allowing that pipeline would be disastrous for Russia. They want the Iran pipeline because they have a deal to work in conjunction with Iran to maximize profits for both countries. By controlling swaths of Ukraine and existing Ukrainian pipeline infrastructure, Russia can control who's oil comes into Europe from the middle east. This would also explain why the US has such a hard-on for making Ukraine a NATO member despite it basically not even having a functioning government or military, and having almost no other objective strategic value. I'm sure Ukraine's guarantee of neutrality and NATO's limit on expansion were baked into the treaties back then to avoid this exact situation.
All of that aside, Putin is just as much of a globalist puppet as any other world leader, so we'll probably never know the full story and how it relates to the WEF/Bullshittery et. al. There will probably be an underground conspiracy forum 80 years from now with a bunch of schizos and autists trying to piece it all together from the half of the story that hasn't been scrubbed from the cortex. I'm sure Sam Hyde shooting down 10 SU-35s with a MIG-29 will be hotly debated; and people who don't think that the Ukrainians were the good guys will be called nazis or genocide deniers; and half the users will be government agents trying to kookify the place and call everyone else a fed. Somebody will probably figure it out, get laughed at by some shills and called a racist; and then shortly after, he'll shoot himself 15 times in the back before burying himself out in the Mojave.
Some interesting reading material:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130923062607/https://www.passionforliberty.com/2013/09/14/the-destabilization-of-syria-who-gains/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220301054411/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/rfk-jr-why-arabs-dont-trust-america-213601/
Good stuff. We need a sticky on this thread.