Countering Russia’s war will take years of resolve and Vladimir Putin will keep testing for weaknesses
The international tussle over a turbine that saw Canada stuck in the middle should serve as a warning to Ukraine’s allies about complacency – because Mr. Putin will keep testing them for weaknesses.
That threat was for a short time embodied in the turbine, a key part in the Nord Stream pipeline that pumps Russian gas to Germany, which was sent for maintenance in Montreal, but frozen there by Canadian sanctions against Russia.Last month, the Russians cited the delay as the reason for reducing the flow of gas to Germany and, as the flow was cut this week for maintenance, there was a fear Russia might not turn in back on.
But there was something else going on. German, Canadian, and U.S. officials don’t buy the Russian claim that the sanctioned turbine forced them to reduce the flow of gas to Germany. All that doesn’t take away from the fact that Mr. Zelensky is, in the larger sense, right: If Western allies fold to Russian threats, they’ll be subjected to them again.
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