On: Italy, Belgium set to lose gas supply after biggest LNG plant bombed

[woodruffw]

I don’t understand where the arrogance comes in here. I see underhandedness and realpolitik, but those don’t arrogance make.

(I’ll also note that it seems very weird to use a pinky promise that the US made with a country that no longer exists as some kind of “gotcha.” You presumably don’t factor the Austro-Hungarian empire’s commitments into your geopolitics.)

[drysine → woodruffw]

>no longer exists

Russia is legal successor to the USSR.

Somehow the West hadn't written off the debts of "a country that no longer exists" and Russia paid out all of them.

[wiseowise → drysine]

> Somehow the West hadn't written off the debts of "a country that no longer exists" and Russia paid out all of them.

Shall we make concessions to Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany too?