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.
Yawn.
You're connecting it from a different perspective. Not necessarily the way they see it. Or what those stakes are. Or the intention and objective.
I don't have those answers either. I am not Russian.
You're debating the dubious timing colliding into NWO programming. Don't care. Let me know when it matters. Because what matters is a war that risks going hot. Only somehow you still thinks it's fake?
Another thing you're largely missing is Western intentions where you're still in the realms of conspiracy instead of attempted advantage