by Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and widely cross-posted
The sabotage of the Nord Stream (NS) and Nord Stream 2 (NS2) pipelines in the Baltic Sea has ominously propelled ‘Disaster Capitalism’ to a whole new, toxic level.
This episode of Hybrid Industrial/Commercial War, in the form of a terror attack against energy infrastructure in international waters signals the absolute collapse of international law, drowned by a “our way or the highway”, “rules-based”, order.
The attack on both pipelines consisted of multiple explosive charges detonated in separate branches close to the Danish island of Bornholm, but in international waters.
That was a sophisticated operation, carried out in stealth in the shallow depth of the Danish straits. That would in principle rule out submarines (ships entering the Baltic are limited to a draught of 15 meters). As for prospective “invisible” vessels, these could only loiter around with permission from Copenhagen – as the waters around Borholm are crammed with sensors, reflecting fear of incursion by Russian submarines.
Swedish seismologists registered two underwater explosions on Monday – one of them estimated at 100 kg of TNT. Yet as much as 700 kg may have been used to blow up three separate pipeline nodes. Such amount could not have possibly been delivered in just one trip by underwater drones currently available in neighboring nations.
The pressure on the pipelines dropped exponentially. The pipes are now filled with seawater.
The pipes on both NS and NS2 can be repaired, of course, but hardly before the arrival of General Winter. The question is whether Gazprom – already focused on several hefty Eurasian customers – would bother, especially considering that Gazprom vessels could be exposed to a possible NATO naval attack in the Baltic.
German officials are already spinning that NS and NS2 can “potentially” be out of commission “forever”. The EU economy and EU citizens badly needed that gas supply. Yet the EUrocracy in Brussels – which rules over nation-states – would not follow, because they have been dictated themselves by the Empire of Chaos, Lies and Plunder. A case can be made that this Euro-oligarchy should one day be tried for treason.
As it stands, a strategic irreversibility is already self-evident; the population of several EU nations will pay a tremendous price and suffer serious consequences derived from this attack, short, medium and long term.
Cui bono?
Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson admitted that was “a matter of sabotage”. Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen admitted “it was not an accident”. Berlin agrees with the Scandinavians.
Now compare it with former Polish Defense Minister (2005-2007) Radek Sikorski, a Russophobe married to rabid US “analyst” Anne Applebaum, who merrily tweeted “Thank you, USA”.
It gets curiouser and curiouser when we know that simultaneously to the sabotage the Baltic Pipe from Norway to Poland was partially opened, a “new gas supply corridor” servicing “the Danish and Polish markets”: actually a minor affair, considering months ago their sponsors were in trouble finding gas, and now it will be even harder, with much higher costs.
NS2 had already been attacked – in the open – all along its construction. Back in February, Polish ships actively tried to prevent the Fortuna pipe-laying vessel from finishing NS2. The pipes were being laid south of – you guessed it – Bornholm.
NATO for its part has been very active on the underwater drones department. The Americans have access to long distance Norwegian underwater drones which can be modified with other designs. Alternatively, professional navy clearance divers could have been employed in the sabotage – even as tidal currents around Bornholm are a serious matter.
The Big Picture reveals the collective West in absolute panic, with Atlanticist “elites” willing to resort to anything – outrageous lies, assassinations, terrorism, sabotage, all out financial war, support to neo-Nazis – to prevent their descent into a geopolitical and geoeconomic abyss.
Disabling NS and NS2 represents the definitive closure of any possibility of a German-Russia deal on gas supplies, with the added benefit of relegating Germany to the lowly status of absolute US vassal.
So that brings us to the key question of which Western intel apparatus designed the sabotage. Prime candidates are of course CIA and MI6 – with Poland set up as the fall guy and Denmark playing a very dodgy part: it’s impossible that Copenhagen was not at least “briefed” on the intel.
Prescient as ever, as early as in April 2021 Russians were asking questions about the military security of Nord Stream.
The crucial vector is that we may be facing the case of a EU/NATO member involved in an act of sabotage against the number one EU/NATO economy. That’s a casus belli. Outside of the appalling mediocrity and cowardice of the current administration in Berlin, it’s clear that the BND – German intel – as well as the German Navy and informed industrialists sooner or later will do the math.
This was far from an isolated attack. On September 22 there was an attempt against Turkish Stream by Kiev saboteurs. The day before, naval drones with English language IDs were found in Crimea, suspected of being part of the plot. Add to it US helicopters overflying the future sabotage nodes weeks ago; a UK “research” vessel loitering in Danish waters since mid-September; and NATO tweeting about the testing of “new unmanned systems at sea” on the same day of the sabotage.
Show me the (gas) money
The Danish Minister of Defense met urgently with NATO’s Secretary General this Wednesday. After all the explosions happened very close to Denmark’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). That may be qualified as crude kabuki at best; exactly on the same day, the European Commission (EC), NATO’s de facto political office, advanced its trademark obsession: more sanctions against Russia, including the certified-to-fail cap on oil prices.
Meanwhile, EU energy giants are bound to lose big time with the sabotage.
The roll call includes the German Wintershall Dea AG and PEG/ E.ON; the Dutch N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie; and the French ENGIE. Then there are those which financed NS2: Wintershall Dea again as well as Uniper; Austrian OMV; ENGIE again; and British-Dutch Shell. Wintershall Dea and ENGIE are both co-owners and creditors. Their fuming shareholders will want serious answers from a serious investigation.
It gets worse: there are no holds barred anymore on the Pipeline Terror front. Russia will be on red alert not only for Turk Stream but also Power of Siberia. Same for the Chinese and their maze of pipelines arriving in Xinjiang.
Whatever the methodology and the actors who were in the loop, this is payback – in advance – for the inevitable collective West defeat in Ukraine. And a crude warning to the Global South that they will do it again. Yet action always breeds reaction: from now on, “funny things” could also happen to US/UK pipelines in international waters.
The EU oligarchy is reaching an advanced process of disintegration at lightning speed. Their window of opportunity to at least attempt a role as a strategically autonomous geopolitical actor is now closed.
These EUROcrats now face a serious predicament. Once it’s clear who are the perpetrators of the sabotage in the Baltic, and once they understand all the life-changing socio-economic consequences for pan-EU citizens, the kabuki will have to stop. Including the already running, uber-ridiculous subplot that Russia blew up its own pipeline when Gazprom could simply have turned off the valves for good.
And once again, it gets worse: Gazprom is threatening to sue the Ukrainian energy company Naftofgaz for unpaid bills. That would lead to the end of Russian gas transiting Ukraine towards the EU.
As if all of that was not serious enough, Germany is contractually obligated to purchase at least 40 billion cubic meters of Russian gas a year until 2030.
Just say no? They can’t: Gazprom is legally entitled to get paid even without shipping gas. That’s the spirit of a long-term contract. And it’s already happening: because of sanctions, Berlin does not get all the gas it needs but still needs to pay.
All the devils are here
Now it’s painfully clear the imperial velvet gloves are off when it comes to the vassals. EU independence: verboten. Cooperation with China: verboten. Independent trade connectivity with Asia: verboten. The only place for the EU is to be economically subjugated to the US: a tawdry remix of 1945-1955. With a perverse neoliberal twist: we will own your industrial capacity, and you will have nothing.
The sabotage of NS and NS2 is inbuilt in the imperial wet dream of breaking up the Eurasian land mass into a thousand pieces to prevent a trans-Eurasia consolidation between Germany (representing the EU), Russia and China: $50 trillion in GDP, based on purchasing power parity (PPP) compared to the US’s $20 trillion.
We must go back to Mackinder: control of the Eurasian land mass constitutes control of the world. American elites and their Trojan Horses across Europe will do whatever it takes not to give up their control.
“American elites” in this context encompass the deranged, Straussian neo-con-infested “intel community” and the Big Energy, Big Pharma and Big Finance that pays them and who profits not only from the Deep State’s Forever War approach but also wants to make a killing out of the Davos-concocted Great Reset.
The Raging Twenties started with a murder – of Gen Soleimani. Blowing up pipelines is part of the sequel. There will be a highway to hell all the way to 2030. Yet to borrow from Shakespeare, hell is definitely empty, and all the (Atlanticist) devils are here.
Pepe Escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst and author. His latest book is Raging Twenties. He’s been politically canceled from Facebook and Twitter. Follow him on Telegram.
Where is Shakespeare when you need him
An insane power mad empire trying its hardest hold on to a world it once held in its evil grasp
An out of touch oligarchy that could have had everything if it could only speak the words “share” and “trust”
An un-elected bureaucracy that despises its citizens and worships its hidden masters
Vassal states run by photocopied robots who sold their worthless souls to be one (sexually) with the empire
Barbarians at the gate, who are ready to decapitate the monster but instead can wait for it to kill itself
and best of all
the false wizards behind the curtains who always claimed to be the smartest guys in the room but have been finally exposed as the bumbling idiots, knaves and lackeys
better known as the Neo-Cons, Neo-Liberals, Globalists, Internationalists, and Interventionist
Pepe referenced the American elites” encompassing the “intel community”, Big Energy, Big Pharma and Big Finance
But in 2022 and thanks to the Private Central Banks, Big Energy, Big Pharma and the Big Weapons Manufacturers are now all owned by Big Finance in the form of Commercial Banks and Super Hedge Funds.
So when you look at it the empire and the Deep State is controlled by the Oligarchs and their lackeys Big Finance, the NeoCons and the NeoLiberals,
its almost tribal.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of an American snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Western money changers and globalists are the root of all of this.
Big Money buys out the totalitarian western poltiicians.. and leftist politicians are closer to totalitarianism than “legacy” conservative politicians who are all in just for the money.
A Civil War on the making in the US.
In Europe… my wife asked me a few years ago how do Europeans handle these affairs… I thought just for a bit and the answer was obvious…. “a war”.
I was thinking that Putin should start referring to the West as “The rich Western nations”. That is the propaganda we were always fed. Now that the West has been exposed as broke debtor nations, it is the perfect time to be calling them rich. Mocking them back with their own propaganda under the hat of showing respect!.
The Zio-Nazis who have targeted Ukraine are the ones wagging the American Empire behind the scenes.
But not to worry, EVIL doesn’t last forever. Ironically, their actions will cause the end of the American Empire.
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/israel-the-scourge-of-empires/
Shakespeare indeed
out damn spot
Oh what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive
Fine. I liked your comment.
But you do know this quote is not Shakespeare, right?
You don’t want to be accused of spreading fake Shakesperean quotes. (That’s Sir Walter Scott for the Goggle challenged.)
Who Done it.
Back in 2013 Denmark started the Baltic Pipe project to send Gas from the North Sea via Denmark down through the Baltic Sea and into Poland. Danish and Polish Politicians knew back then, that a new gas line to Poland would be necessary in the future. Many of us were scratching our heads as to why Poland needed more Gas, as they were already receiving plentiful cheap gas from Russia, and sold its surplus to Germany.
In 2014 we realized why, when the CIA launched the Maidan coupe in Ukraine.
There are 5 gas pipelines running over land from Russia across Eastern Europe and into the EU.
The one from Russia via Belarus into Poland and into Germany was closed by Poland earlier this year.
The one from Russia to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania is still on line.
The 3 lines going from Russia into Ukraine and on to Central Europe via Slovakia and Hungary are still in operation despite the war in Ukraine. Moreover, Ukraine has not been paying for the gas since the Maidan Coupe, so Gazprom has long since put Ukraine on notice regarding shutting down 2 of the pipelines. Shutting down The Ukraine Gas lines would hurt Germany, and an agreement was made to build NS-2.
The Russian NS-1 and NS-2 pipelines running through the Baltic Sea directly into Germany have now all been bombed near the Danish island Bornholm.
Since 2014, there has been a steady buildup of NATO troops in the Baltic Nations and especially Poland.
Since 2018 there have been several NATO Naval operations in the Baltic Sea.
On September 26 a US special vessel ended its undersea operations in the area where the NS-1 and NS-2 pipelines were bombed, and left Danish waters via Skagerrak and sailed into the North Sea.
Poland, Sweden, and Germany have Sub Marines operating in the Baltic Sea.
Denmark does not have any Sub marines. Instead all of the territory around the island Bornholm is infested by modern military surveillance equipment including deep sea sonars and listening devices.
So nothing gets near the Danish island in the Baltic Sea without the Danish military knowing who they are and their purpose. Besides, to exit the Baltic Sea all marine vessels has to go through the Danish Straits, which is also heavily surveilled by the Danish Military.
Sweden also have infested the island Gotland in the middle of the Baltic Sea with electronic surveillance, and is monitoring all marine traffic (both surface and sub vessels) to and from Russia.
Nearly all Nations around the Baltic Sea are NATO members. Sweden has just become a NATO Prospect.
If all the NATO Nations around the Baltic Sea does not know who had access and the means to bomb the Russian pipelines in the Baltic Sea, then NATO is incompetent beyond belief.
On the other hand, NATO did not prevent 9/11 – The London Bombings – The Oslo Bombing – The terror acts in Stockholm, in Copenhagen, in Germany, in the Netherlands, in Brussels, in Paris, in Spain etc. etc.
And now the bombing of the NS-1 and NS-2 pipelines within NATO nations EE Zones.
So what’s next: The North sea Gas fields, The Norwegian Gas fields, The British Gas fields.
The Danish EE Zone in the North Sea is a virtual Gas Hub connecting many gas lines from Norway, Denmark, and Britain, with the Netherlands, and Germany.
In 2021, Denmark’s own Gas production in the North Sea was shut down, and the gas rig is being scraped.
A new gas Rig is underway from Indonesia but will first reopen in 2023. Denmark and the EU are presently receiving Gas from Norway, but Norway only has the capacity to deliver 10% of the Gas needed by the EU, and the price of heating our homes are skyrocketing.
NATO has been conducting wars and terror around the Globe for the last 20 years. The hostility and expansion of NATO and the EU has bought Europe to the brink of economic collapse, and us all to the dawn of WWIII.
It’s high time to drop the Globalist warmongers within NATO, build regional alliances, and bring back Peace and prosperity for all.
IMO, America’s terrorist attack on the pipelines is, ‘a cry for help’.
It certainly is a temper tantrum. These USA psychopaths have the emotional maturity of a 6 year old.
While Ukraine war has been ‘No Plan Survives First Contact With the Enemy’ for the Russian generals, all has worked out exactly as they hoped for in RAND document.
That’s how it is when you own Reality.
That very much summarizes the situation since 2014 up until now.
Someone has to be so hell bent on crushing Russian nation that such a high cost becomes acceptable.
Didn’t EU understand what “F the EU” really means? It means cannon fodder.
Six year olds have been socialised enough to be ready for primary school.
Those psychopaths are like two year olds throwing tantrums in the supermarket when mummy won’t buy them unhealthy food.
It is an act of demented desperation by the US. And for the EU morons to sit there and pretend like they don’t know who did this is absurd. Are they really so chickenshit that they just cannot call the US out? They can falsely blame and accuse someone, or something else, but in their minds, they will always know that the US did this to them. Lying won’t change this fact. And that’s a really shitty thing to have haunting you for the rest of your life; knowing than an ‘ally’ is out to terrorize you and is causing your misery.
@wtfud
It seems to me that just gradually escalating the damage to Western Ukraine by Russia will not stop Biden’s ultimate goal of completely defeating Russia to install a puppet regime in Moscow. Biden does not care how many Europeans he kills, whereas Putin seems cognizant of the loss of lives, which in war now seems to be a form of weakness.
Therefore in order to prevail against the US, he will have no choice but to remove the neocon instigators of this conflict from power, requiring the use of nuclear missiles against the US homeland to remove the war mongers both in Congress and the Pentagon. In other words he may as well have to go for the first strike option and get it over with.
Biden is at this point talking to dead people, little more than a PR nuisanse for the TPTB.
An offensive strike on the critters in Congress and Pentagon is a loosing proposition. As have been demonstrated number of times by the Empire, you can not bomb a country to “democracy”. If the American people can not do it, nobody can.
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When Americans are finally ready to save America; by default, they will save the World
Don’t hold you breath. Sheeple don’t know what to do without herders.
@iR47
The word democracy does not appear in the US Constitution, not even once.
The US is a republic controlled by international bankers.
Cry for help or a well known strategy? The Deep State does everything in the open (i.e. Great Reset, Covid Plan-demic etc..). Everything is openly talked about and published years in advance. They don’t hide anything. The public is unaware because they are too busy in Plato’s Cave watching the shadows on the wall.
https://odysee.com/@BrotherNathanael:e/Nord-Stream-Sabotage-Revealed:7
– does everything in the open
No. It is hiding in plain sight
Bear with me for a bit. Let’s say all the lies are true and Ukraine comes roaring back and winds up marching in and capturing all of Russia, just like in all the neo-con fantasies. Great, we are finally in charge of the heart of the world, we almost like Germans so let’s get that gas flowing again. Oops now who blew up that pipeline?
Hey, we promised we would win, why would you ruin Europe’s lifeline? Didn’t we grovel enough?
It’s come down to we are so crazy that we should be in charge of everything, it only makes sense. The crazier we get, the safer you should feel. Of course we have nukes, so back off or else.
Interesting with all the tension in the world the Israelis got excited too and just had to shoot a bunch more unarmed terrorists, as if there is such a thing! Nope we shot their arms right off.
It is easier for a camel to go through an eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. The richer a business man gets, the more apt they are to engage in mafia like behavior. This sabotage of the Nord stream pipelines is mafia like behavior.
If Germany had any guts it would immediately “switch sides” and join Russia in it’s quest for a unipolar world.
Oh how I long for this, it seems so natural for Europe to ally itself with Russia and China. This has been the heart of EUs Prosperity and growing sovereignity. Why can’t we have the best of all worlds? The best of all our cultures? A new alliance mutually assured security and prosperity.
It’s like Lukashenko recently asked daunted and exasperated at the insane actions and Russophobia of the EU paraphrasing “Why is this happening? We had everything.”
Pepe is spot on.
I watched a recent interview with Jacques Baud. He pointed to something I had also noticed here in the Netherlands. The Dutch farmers over the past six months have nearly shut down the country, huge violent clashes with police. But there was literally nothing about these protests in the mainstream media, not in NL not in Belgium. I would learn of things through foreign media. The information censure is hermetic. Europeans have nearly no opportunity to make an informed decision or even form an opinion.
People have often asked what will win in the end? The war waged by men and tanks on the ground or the information war. If part of the goal is to break and subjugate the EU, I believe unfortunately the information war in this respect is winning.
Re “mafia-like behavior,” please read Diana Johnstone’s account, based on exactly this premise, of hte USA gangster crowd terrorizing its competion in order to protect its “territory”:
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/28/diana-johnstone-omerta-in-the-gangster-war/
Johnstone’s piece is a great complement to Pepe’s—but takes it a bit further and brings in very important background info/evidence to point the “whodunnit” finger directly at the Yanks.
– As if all of that was not serious enough, Germany is contractually obligated to purchase at least 40 billion cubic meters of Russian gas a year until 2030.
It has been confirmed PTB goal is to take down Germany, and now Russia must sabotage that agenda … i.e. offering free gas to German households
(I am using gas myself and know cost of transport is a marginal cost)
What is at stake here is 100 times bigger that “payment for gas”. Russia as a friend of Germans will subvert fake Media (in my place I could not count number of commentators hinting this was a Russian false flag operation)
As times get hard in the winter, I think a generous offer of free gass to impoverished German households will go a long way.
It could be delivered also via the now closed Yamal pipeline going through Poland. I would like to see the Russophobes refusing the transit as the death tolls in Germany swell.
You think anyone of the elite care how many Germans die…..every German could die, no one in the EU or NATO would care….less people to feed and keep.
Cheers M
PTB fears German riots. It will mean martial law. Germans need guns like AR-15 (what Putin could supply … buying them on black market ;-) )
Sean in addition to the Elite, the eco-fanatics in the EU are hoping for a return to an agrarian society
with less equipment
with simpler technology
and most importantly
less people
they want a world for themselves free of the rest of society.
they are indifferent to how they get there. In this way,
they are perfect tools (useful idiots) for the Globalists
Once the bulk of humanity is gone, the Oligarchs will enslave or probably kill them as well.
Right. Peasant farmers with local dress make such colorful backdrops for social media photo posts.
While government in Berlin is supplying Ukraine with weapons, to kill Russians, you expect Russia to provide Germany with free gas?
People must wake up and get rid of their treacherous governments in EU, one way or another.
Once you do that, you must ask Russia for forgiveness first, for all rabid russophobia we’ve seen in last decade, before trying to reestablish economic relationships.
Good luck with that.
Stalin offer Germans scientists salaries at privileged level … instead of using them as miners in Siberia ?
What is at stake here is world domination. German industry created such fear in British imperialists they all needed Prozac
I am not in favor of having the US use Europe as its slaughterhouse as it did in WW1 and WW2, while escaping wartime damage on its homeland The US has got away with mass murder in the past by nuking Japan in 1945, carpet bombing Korea in 1954, Vietnam in 1955-75, et cetera. It is time that the American public understood what a horror show war really is, and got a taste of its own medicine, instead of just displaying yellow ribbons and bumper stickers reading “support our troops”.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were those cities still not firebombed as I remember (Japan is a small country densely populated)
South Korea was a regime executing own citizens
Easy google search: “No Gun Ri massacre” (250–300 were killed)
– The incident was little-known outside Korea until publication of an Associated Press (AP) story in 1999 in which 7th Cavalry veterans corroborated survivors’ accounts. The AP also uncovered declassified U.S. Army orders to fire on approaching civilians because of reports of North Korean infiltration of refugee groups. In 2001, the U.S. Army conducted an investigation and, after previously rejecting survivors’ claims, acknowledged the killings, but described the three-day event as “an unfortunate tragedy inherent to war and not a deliberate killing”.
Kapricorn4, I live in the Appalachian mountains and if a Russian submarine launches a nuclear attack on the east coast of USA, the ensuing tidal wave will come over the mountains. And yet I’m willing to take one for team (the Russian team) if it means the end of the demons who rule the death cult called America.
Noone can fault your logic because the West is becoming one ugly giant plantation with the thought control police infringing upon every aspect of our lives. God forbid, walking around on eggshells and being told what you can read or listen to, is no way to live. Stasi East Germany on steroids. We’re equally to blame though, in allowing TPTB to trample on fundamental rights. Julian Assange is locked up in a category A prison less than an hour from me when if the truth be told the current crop of scum, our Government in Westminster, seek to deport him into the sadistic hands of the new Reich. These treasonous politicians who sold us into slavery should be tried and convicted instead.
The moronic 24/7 MSM propaganda for idiot consumption is sickening.
The odds are better that a local tidal wave will wash out a road or a bridge in your hood, rather than the Russians ravaging the east coast of the US.
And then you will be another one inconvenienced w/o services and the high rebuilding costs that go w/them.
@Anton
Contrary to popular belief if a nuclear weapon is detonated under water it will not cause a tsunami wave.
All Russia needs to do is eliminate Washington DC.
Better a lone wolf strategy.
Develop a deck of 1000 cards identifying the top globalists and oligarchs.
Share the list with a squadron of well financed and highly trained lone wolfs.
Allow them to randomly take out #23, #351, #818, #39, etc., etc.,
As the numbers pile up, enjoy the satisfaction of observing men and women who never look over their shoulders all of a sudden becoming obsessed with who is behind them. Allow the numbers to pile up and now watch the lackeys and toadies abandon ship concerned with the the thought that their masters cannot provide safety. Keep piling up the numbers and watch the oligarchs turn on each other for the final demise of the Deep State
I would pay to watch that movie.
Less carnage more results. Faster than one might think,
A very interesting premise, but even the top 1000 wouldn’t be enough. Think foundations, governors, think tanks, mega corporate ceo’s, ngo’s, etc.
Right. To start with, all WEF members. There is a list at their websites.
Then the Young Global Leaders.
Then, the next tier down. I think it is called something like “Future global influencers” or some such rot.
These are people who reside in our communities, local nonprofits, etc. and get training in how to steer popular opinion and concoct propaganda cocktails.
So, internationall plus national plus local lists.
This operation could be named “Operation Mikado” (“I’ve got a little list, I’ve got a little list”):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW_Ukl71OH4
Time for topical-list lyrics to make WEFers laugh nervously . . .
DC is full of puppets that can be replaced. The real nerve centre in the US is Langley, Virginia.
@ Anton Gorbatow on September 29, 2022 · at 12:44 am EST/EDT
Kapricorn4, I live in the Appalachian mountains and if a Russian submarine launches a nuclear attack on the east coast of USA, the ensuing tidal wave will come over the mountains. And yet I’m willing to take one for team (the Russian team) if it means the end of the demons who rule the death cult called America.
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Hi Anton, I might be looking into your house, depending on how high or low you are, and in what state. Don’t have to tell me, just FYI we share the same landscape. My best guess you are up north on the Appalachians, you might see the sea from your house. For the sea to get to me, it would have to be a Biblical deluge all over again.
Cheers!
Lone Wolf
Lone Wolf, I live in western North Carolina. I’m originally from NJ.
I thought a while back you said that you lived in Texas.
Incidentally, when I visited Maine, you could see the ocean from the mountains.
It’s weird how few comments there have been lately. I’m sure that the registration requirement has reduced the number of comments but maybe people are becoming war weary. Personally, I think we are heading for exciting times. The 4 regions becoming part of Russia is monumental. It should be very interesting what Russia plans to do with the Ukrainian soldiers who presently control part of Donetsk.
Wait, they might have a different plan????…..and remember the enemy always gets a say…..in this case is anyone listening to Russia??? Not that I see or hear, maybe I’m too far outside the big picture, 5D chess and all ….although looks more like a snakes and ladders board and someone is trying to use it to playing chess ….good luck.
Cheers M
No way Appalachia would be flooded. Some weird source is pulling your leg. Start tour research with hurricanes and earthquakes.
I certainly agree with you that the American people need to understand the horror of war and that we are a primary cause of wars all over the globe in the past 60 years. However, it’s not that easy when the ease of their lifestyle doesn’t make them think about the effects our govts actions has on others. That’s supposed to be the job of journalism; a check on the powers of the government and relay the truth to the public. Media is compromised and controlled by the government narrative, and really, how many know otherwise? Schools don’t teach critical thinking skills here, they teach conformity.
This was supposed to be in reply to kapricorn on 9/28. A misplaced modifier.
It’s clear a new order is coming to the world, the USA elites have accepted it and a new era has now started, this pipeline infrastructure attack marks a beginning of a brave new world.
Europe it is clear at least to me is headed for an internal war, when this starts the Russians are going to be the last thing on their minds. The fact that the Poles/Baltics as proxies of the USA are in charge of European foreign policy is outright madness for Western Europe.
It’s only a matter of time before the elites and their paid functionaries like Scholz take their leave to the USA and the real fun starts in places like Germany. You are going to have an extreme opposite reaction against the EU and the USA by proxy as well as the Baltic nations, hence why they blew the pipelines from Russia, because when this swings Germany will want to ally with Russia and the US knows it. The spineless politicians will be replaced by nationalistic leaders and this thing is going to swing hard.
The USA blowing the pipelines so out in the open also signals the end of American hegemony/Pax Americana, it’s over at this point, expect more of these type of attacks on all sides.
A brave new world.
Pepe knocks another article “out of the park”…..I’ve lost count of how many grand slams Pepe has produced in the last 6 months. Fantastic journalism!!
Agree. He writes like a Rockstar, while at the same time educating and informing.
What has happened to those feisty European Citizens that use to bring down governments with their protests of fury?
They became debt slaves.
Hi, Theophilus. Do you mean debt, the actual & active arm of mass destruction?
In Italy, they voted their government out of office last weekend. Plenty of anti van-der-Leyen actions expected from Rome.
You’ll see the Germans on the streets soon, you might even get them storming the fortress in Berlin. I wouldn’t fancy being either Scholz or Baerbock right now.
But Rome is NATO coopted. CIA assests. If they have anything in store for the EU it will be Washington backed, Washington approved. The ultra hawk Clinton endorsed Meloni. The Minister of Finance will come from neo liberal ranks. I actually wonder how much will change? Or will the demise of Italy simply accelerate and be used as a massive battering ram against the rest of Europe.
Nothing will change (but the public will satiated temporarily)
Consider this gem, from an earlier link provide by The Saker:
Giorgia Meloni: ‘I believe that the existence of Israel is vital and I will make every effort to invest in greater cooperation between our countries’
Bought and sold, before the public even knew the truth
War Is On on September 28, 2022 said, Meloni is an asset of the Aspen Institute
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Giap on September 28, 2022 · said
O neofascismo é, pura e simplesmente, a derradeira e cadavérica metamorfose do moribundo ultraliberalismo neocolonialista. A Senhora Meloni vai servir aqueles a quem serviram todos aqueles que a antecederam. E agora que as coisas começaram realmente a descarrilar, nada melhor do que uma convicta admiradora de Mussolini para esmagar à nascença toda e qualquer vontade que o povo italiano tenha de mudar o miserável estado político e económico do seu país. Para isso fazer a Senhora Meloni nem precisa de coisas antiquadas como uma polícia política: basta dar aos servos um osso ( seja ele os imigrantes, os preguiçosos do Sul ou outra coisa qualquer) para raivosamente roerem e ao mesmo tempo pensarem que são senhores e não os servos que são.
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Neo-fascism is, pure and simple, the ultimate and cadaverous metamorphosis of the dying neo-colonialist ultraliberalism. Ms. Meloni will serve those whom all those who preceded her served. And now that things have really started to go off the rails, there is nothing better than a convinced admirer of Mussolini to crush at birth any and all will that the Italian people have to change the miserable political and economic state of their country. To do this, Ms. Meloni doesn’t even need old-fashioned things like a political police force: she simply gives the serfs a bone (be it the immigrants, the lazy people of the South, or something else) to angrily gnaw on and at the same time think that they are masters and not the serfs they are.
You’ re so right, Germans will take to the streets in long lines at the Food Banks, then they will stop by their local Sally Ann looking for warm clothing, hand me downs from the elite, long past it’s in Vouge date.
The Germans you are thinking of died back in the 40s, that Germany is gone. You will not see protests against the Hand That Feeds…..listen or read some Brit shit tripe, Germans will lap up whatever S and M their government warrants they need……considering the perversion that permeates the EU and England they might actually enjoy a good old butt flogg.
Cheers M
So, the interesting question is if there is conclusive evidence the US did it would that trigger Article 5 of NATO?
That i would love to see for shits and giggles!
Article 5 is a joke, read the text. It does not commit any country to any action. All may respond “as they see fit”.
Do you really think the US would lock itself into such a commitment? LOL
It is not necessary to have 100-700 kg of TNT to blow up a hole in the pipeline. That amount is difficult to handle in a clandestine manner. One could attach a Davy Crocket type of nuclear device (20 Ton TNT yield) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)) or its more modern versions with higher yields which can be carried in a small bathyscaphe (https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/bathyscaphe) and attached to the pipeline with a robotic arm. The presence of American ships in the vicinity would facilitate such an operation, which could be carried out in a matter of hours under cover of darkness. Three such devices can be connected with cables with three radio buoys, which can rise to the surface in the middle of the night and receive radio commands for triggering . The actual triggering can be done when the ships are well out of the way. This would be doable with a naval SEAL team, trained in clandestine naval operations.
It would be a great idea to test fish caught in the area for increased level of radioactivity and also test water samples downstream of ocean currents. These types of devices were developed as nuclear demolition munitions and battle-field weapons. The radioactive fallout was considered “acceptable” in actual use.
Per Diana Johnstone, the deed was done (explosive devices attached) “in the open,” during the BALTOP exercises this past summer.
Read her piece at Consortium News.
Doubt that Russia has the dubious nature nor the nastiness to get involved in cutting the undersea telecommunication systems that the Western banking system relies upon, that would surely be a major disaster that the West will never recover from in our lifetime. Satellites are another option but there again….
Russia needs to think wisely about their response. They are already the pariah because media portrays them as such. If they have an aggressive response, that becomes self affirmation of their evilness in the eyes of many. If they have a weak response, they have the potential to appear weak in the eyes of their friends. Let’s hope it’s a reasoned response that can be defended by law.
The pipeline should have been left alone. In the end it may have been an equivalent of here kitty, kitty ………. and the idiots swallowed the whole damn fishing pole. What are the chances that Russia didn´t see it coming? Zero. Notice the flow had actually been dialed down to 7%, give or take. They knew.
There are no strategists left in the West. It´s just linear minds, acting like gold fish on empty stomachs. I wonder what they will pull after Odessa falls?
You know there could be peace, with plenty of money to be made. Try it fellas. It won´t be as bad as you think.
I wish better days for all.
Absolutely stunning. A masterpiece, Pepe.
That quickly put an end to any public backlash demanding western politicians restart the pipe lines again this winter. Be very sure the politicians won’t freeze this coming winter. It looks to me that the conflict in Ukraine is taking backstage as we destroy our societies and economies for an ideological position.
Sitting on the outer fringes of western civilzation away from it all, I’ve always been of the opinion that nothing will change unless the US shares in the suffering.
It is above all a great victory for Poland against Germany (its existential enemy since Mieszko I who extracted the Polish people from the Germanic Empire), against Russia (its best enemy brother), against the EU which continues to attack Poland through its main tool of dictatorship and interference (the CJEU with its authoritarian case law flouting the treaties) and even against the USA which did not want the Baltic pipeline.
For the moment, Poland is the only real winner of the redistribution of the cards in Europe.
Moreover, for those who classify Poland in the group of Western Nazis, I just want to remind that 6 million Poles (including 3 million Jews) were exterminated by the SS and not only by Germans but also by the Ukrainians (SS Waffen), the famous banderists. It was the Ukro-Nazis of the UPA who sowed terror in Galicia and Vollhynia, murdering thousands of Poles (up to 100,000 civilians according to historians). This terror led to the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Poles who had to leave their native land (currently South-West Ukraine). How to dare imagine that today the Poles could “sympathize” with the Ukrainian nationalists nostalgic for Bandera !? it is total intellectual fraud, historical nonsense, denial of memory.
Make no mistake about it, if Duda gets along so well with Zelensky to find the historic lands of Poland, it is because the actor of “servant of the people” is not a banderist (but above all a corrupt man) . He even wanted peace with Donbass !? He is not a Ukrainian nationalist, just a “junk” (there are many of them in the political world) who gave in to Nazi threats from kyiv and let himself be bought by the Nazis in Washington (see https://fr .topwar.ru/158354-jarosh-prigrozil-novomu-prezidentu-ukrainy-zelenskomu.html). Moreover, in this deadly cabal, it is mostly Ukrainians who die and that should not bother the Kazar Jew or the Poles.
I’m really finding it hard to understand Poland’s idea that it is in conflict with Germany. In bed with the enemy. Poland has received 10s of billions from the EU. It’s one of the biggest benefactors. It struggled to join.
Look I don’t think certain things should be forced on a state not yet willing or able to implement them. Absolutely don’t agree with EU strong arming on certain issues. Or random and hypocritical strong arming tactics full stop.
But the corruption seems evident. Poland’s leadership are bad actors, endlessly divisive and antagonistic. It’s like someone paid them to stir up trouble. While considering the history, absurd that they should support ultra Nationalist Neo Nazis against Russia. The ethnic Russians and speakers are not the only ones who were targeted. The European Council also received reports of 100s of Poles and Hungarians in Ukraine being tortured and persecuted by the Ukranian Nationalists/ neo nazi militias/ security forces.
The geostrategic situation was going from bad to worse for Poland after it came under intensified Hybrid War attack by the US and Germany at the end of July 2021
Poland has come under intensified Hybrid War attack by the US and Germany after its hoped-for Baltic Pipe’s construction has been delayed by their Danish ally, the influential Washington Post published a scathing editorial imploring American decision makers to push back against Poland’s plans to regain control of a US-owned anti-government broadcaster, and it became official that the US and Germany cut a deal with Russia over Nord Stream II.
https://oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=2136
I don’t think you understand quite how Poland will now be regarded in Europe. When they joined the EU, they received billions and billions of EU funds for levelling up. Millions of Poles migrated to the West to earn hard currency to send back to Poland. A lot of that was paid for by German taxpayers.
Now Poland wants to bankrupt Germany, blow up pipelines and then gloat over Germany’s demise.
They might find Oswiecim being reopened, they might find Warsaw and Krakow being flattened by Blitzkrieg, and their Europe-wide diaspora might find itself the recipient of huge numbers of acts of well justified physical violence.
It is impossible to overstate just what a bunch of evil, unprincipled shits the Poles are right now. There is no Christian church on earth that should be admitting a single one of them. Forgiveness isn’t good enough, there needs to be punishment, vengeance and restitution.
This could be a contender:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-57713168
A new “massive” undersea transatlantic communications cable has been brought ashore on a beach in Cornwall.
I’m just shocked that I could log in to your site…I have been reading your thoughts for months along with others. I have to say that I have learned and solidified alot of my own wondering thoughts.i do hope that some don’t believe that all of us “Americans” are buying into the Putin bad… Biden.. Great BS…or whom ever is ruling America at this point….I appreciate the information I view and try to assimilate on your site……by the way … I’m horrible at internet and computers in general. I apologize for my lack of advanced knowledge..
IMO : it is a dumb-US-I-got-balls retaliation for the referendum. A childish and unconscious way to act as a matter of fact…
Indeed, it is not at all a victory for US-land in Europe, ie Poland. Because it forces Germany (and France) to a mere conclusion : they won’t develop or assure the living of their cowntry in a US-led Europe.
These two cowntries needs eurasia gaz, among other things. And they get it from Russia. So, if the stream can’t go underwater, it leads to a mere conclusion : it will go by land, ie via Poland.
That will lead for sure to a future intense “pressure” of Germany on Poland. We will see what will be this “pressure”. But as a matter of fact, Poland hast just been overtaken by how big the game has become.
It was done by the Poles with Brit oversight. We should be thankful that Poland has taken over the supply of energy to the EU, no one will freeze now with all the discounted Baltic Gas freely flowing into Europe. Seems like that was the plan, all NATO fluff around the Baltics, all part of stopping Russian gas going to the EU. Looks like it succeeded for now, but with all the seismic sea floor activity in the area, more pipes might get damaged by the hand of God.
Cheers M
the new Baltic pipeline has capacity 10bcm…each of NS had 55…nowhere near enough to replace. Plus Pl shut Jamal pipeline of Russian gas. To me ….seems like Pl wants leverage over Germany if not revenge for their latest perceptions of due war reparations.
As I understand it, this is a tap off on a existing pipeline going to Germany/Dutch.
Norway is already exporting gas at full tilt, there will not be more Gas in the EU after this.
Serious investigation? Rhetorical question: what’s the chance that “serious investigation” finds that anybody
but Russia is responsible?
> “funny things” could also happen to US/UK pipelines in international waters.
The problem is that if something happens to western pipelines, culprit will be even more obvious.
Very obvious, the precedent has been set …..countries only blow up their own pipe lines……
Cheers M
> Germany is contractually obligated to purchase
But contract goes both ways, no? Russia can’t claim “technical difficulties”, so if Germany is obligated to
purchase, Russia is obligated to deliver.
But can you realistically expect that Gazprom will prevail in any court in the west? And even if they do,
they wouldn’t see the money. The “sanctity” of contracts was broken when the EU seized the Russian Central Bank reserves.
Why can’t Germany claim force du jour?
Force of the day? I don’t think Germans eat that stuff.
“de jure” means “in law”
As for “force majeure” in Germany, it’s complicated.
https://www.fgvw.de/en/news/archive-2020/force-majeure-under-german-french-and-us-law
Ahh. Thanks. Had to laugh. My brain messed that up. I referenced the site and it is complex. It sounds like the contract itself has to include the terminology within it. If not, then it’s subject to all kinds of interpretations.
I have long believed that it would be better for Russia to separate itself from the West in every possible way. To my dismay, many, perhaps most, Russians disagreed. They wanted to travel to and trade with the West. Well, my wish has come true. Russians can no longer travel to the West and trade is grinding down to zero. Now that I have what I sought I am no longer so sure I want it. We are sailing in uncharted waters and I am worried. I am essentially a conservative. I fear revolutionary change. Those who plan revolutions and who are busy executing them know where they are leading us. Today I am a mere spectator. Tomorrow I may be given a number and a bed in a British Gulag.
Beds available today at Bellmarsh Gulag. Assange is already there.
certain UK press is hysterically going overboard with suppositions ..graphics how it was done etc to persuade us it was Russia and Putin gone bonkers in his anger and determination to punish the west and EU for supporting the USA war against Russia
But also kinda hinting that west has vulnerable pipelines cables etc eg in North Sea. Sooooo….watch out for falseflags on these so Russia can be blamed again to set up even more sanctions other economic actions to bring down Rus economy and nay even larger expansive perhaps military actions against Russia. Perhaps setting up false flags eg cyber attacks against national and state institutions so that anything can be used to bolster their assertions that it must be Russia There are no limits of options now.
It’s a sign of mental illness to even read the UK Mainstream Press any more.
great article as usual, what else to expect from Mr Escobar.
I do have one observation about an idiotic statement that continues to show up and I was a bit surprised to hear from Pepe as well: “uber-ridiculous subplot that Russia blew up its own pipeline when Gazprom could simply have turned off the valves for good”
Boys and girls there is a big difference between those two scenarios, one thing is to blow it up and entirely another to close the valves. Please. There is no need to use ridiculous arguments to support certain views.
I have zero doubts that the US was behind the pipelines sabotage. Zero. My rationale relies on multiple angles, and in particular an historical one. For instance, generally, consider the well established criminal and terroristic modus operandi of recent regimes in the US, including the current one; and particularly the US vicious attacks on NS2 since the very first day it was even mentioned (I followed this closely over the years, astonished by the continuity of the US attacks on Germany in their attempt to stop it – I was even more astonished that Germany actually managed to get it finished!) .
Going back even further, president Reagan signed a decree authorizing acts of sabotage on Russian pipelines. US iron refusal to let Russia and Europe grow closer has deep historic roots. The US is ready to risk WWIII. It’s a country overwhelmed by mere insanity.
Unlike most people I think it is an excellent thing for Russia that the NordStream pipelines were blown up. I have been always worried that Putin, ever ready to mend relations with his Western “partners” even as they arm and train the nazis that are his country’s enemies, will take the first chance to start supplying gas to the European Union so that it breezes through the winter whilst continuing to aim, train, and finance the Ukranazi coup regime for all it is worth. Now Putin cannot do that and whoever blew up the pipelines has done Russia and the pro Russian world a signal favour.
As for Germany, I have relatives in Hamburg, but I wouldn’t be particularly bothered if they have to freeze.
Great that Pepe mentions the Straussian’s – the real devils. Even Blinken blinked at the news, it looks like he did not get the memo. Another reporter pointed to a fractured D.C. admin with competing radicals.
Which begs the question – Empire divide and conquer.
Coincidences, coincidences. The Referenda, Partial Mobilization, Italy election, Swedish election, Estonia’s Kallas, BALTOPS22 … a temptation to join these dots?
Note these coincidences – King Charles III, Prime Minister Truss, and especially this May strategic leak :
the planned Commonwealth of Europe (Germany, France, Italy not included) :
Il piano segreto di Boris Johnson per dividere l’Ucraina da Russia e Ue: il Commonwealth europeo
https://www.corriere.it/economia/finanza/22_maggio_26/piano-segreto-boris-johnson-dividere-l-ucraina-russia-ue-commonwealth-europeo-02d3b232-dc6b-11ec-b480-f783b433fe60.shtml
This during BoJo’s tenure, not his property though.
Poland, Ukraine, the Baltics, as a British Commonwealth of Europe, driving a wedge between RF and Europe, would then drink to the health of the King in the morning.
The Great Reset is King Charles III patent long before his subjects at Davos echoed it.
Impoverished, freezing ex-EU citizens, would grasp at the Saxon Shilling, be press-ganged into a Commonwealth Army on RF’s borders. Would make Napoleon blush.
How long would it take for VDL to apply for Commonwealth of Europe membership, I wonder?
Ursula von der Leyen , EU Commission President, studied at the London School of Economics, LSE, under a false name Rose Ladson.
https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/die-morgenlage-aus-der-hauptstadt-wer-war-rose-ladson/24592960.html
And German Foreign Minister Baerbock :
Master’s degree without a Bachelor’s degree
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/karriere-hochschule/hoersaal/annalena-baerbocks-studium-in-london-master-ohne-bachelor-17336848.html
a long list of ladies-in-waiting….
Now, an intrepid reporter somewhere must ask Italy’s new leader, Meloni, about that Rome press leak, and her tweet supporting Z. She is really good at highly emotional issues – a breakdown would be a case study!
The Atlantic Council already does not trust her.
Another great article from Pepe.
@ Pepe
Obrigado, Pepe, as always.
The EU oligarchy is reaching an advanced process of disintegration at lightning speed. Their window of opportunity to at least attempt a role as a strategically autonomous geopolitical actor is now closed.
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A wise and acute observation.
The fields are now clearly defined, the alignments well delineated.
Zone A is in full and open war with Zone B, and that means basically US/UK/Euronazistan/NATO/Five Eyes vs Russia/China/Iran/Rest of Zone B. The geopolitical and military repercussions of this blow to Euronazistan’s gas life line, will shape the confrontation for years and decades to come.
International rule of law is out, we are (back to the future?) into the Wild West. It has always been the Wild West for Zone B, Zone A “rules-based order” has always been a facade to “legalize” imperial moves. The Collective West is now fair game for Russia, including but not only the transatlantic cables.
Again, Putin’s offer back in 2010, “We propose the creation of a harmonious economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok, was the last chance for Euronazistan to jump on the train to the multipolar world. Putin’s vision was gazing deep into the future, he knew the options very well. He also knew his enemy, knew himself, and reckoned the alternative to a “harmonious economic community” was a war between Zone A and Zone B.
And here we are, peering into nuclear uncertainty.
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Yet to borrow from Shakespeare, hell is definitely empty, and all the (Atlanticist) devils are here.
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A man after my own heart…
Lone Wolf
@ Ukranazi Stepan on September 29, 2022 · at 9:01 am EST/EDT
Unlike most people I think it is an excellent thing for Russia that the NordStream pipelines were blown up. I have been always worried that Putin, ever ready to mend relations with his Western “partners” even as they arm and train the nazis that are his country’s enemies, will take the first chance to start supplying gas to the European Union so that it breezes through the winter whilst continuing to aim, train, and finance the Ukranazi coup regime for all it is worth. Now Putin cannot do that and whoever blew up the pipelines has done Russia and the pro Russian world a signal favour.
As for Germany, I have relatives in Hamburg, but I wouldn’t be particularly bothered if they have to freeze.
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You got a point going there, buddy.
Every crisis is an opportunity, and besides Russia’s impossibility to feed gas to Germany, Russia cannot be blamed for the coming humanitarian/industrial/socio-economic crisis about to hit Europe like a ton of bricks. For as much as your compadres the Ukronazis (the real ones/where did you get that nick?:-) PSYOPS are working hard on a Russian false flag, their lies are not holding water.
The protest movement in Germany to reactive NS2 was getting too loud for the ears of the Empire of Death, Pillage & Deceit, now there is nothing to protest for, another reason to blow the gas pipelines.
Or as Pepe put it, “verboten.”
As for your relatives in Germany, they will back in the Mini Ice Age, who knows for how long.
My best guess is, those who can afford it, will take a long vacation to the Maghreb, as close as possible to the Sahara dessert.
C’est la guerre!
Lone Wolf
A ship captain is solely responsible for the welfare of a vessel, its crew, and its content. He has to be a master of technology and environment; further, he depends on the information and advice of a coterie of mates responsible for sub-sections. The captains of the Western ships are driving towards shoals, perhaps oblivious to advice, perhaps the advisors also desire the oblivion of the Sirens.
This is not the first time someone has placed a ROV with explosives on the North Stream lines. Back in 2015 this happened.
https://www.pipeline-journal.net/news/explosive-laden-drone-found-near-nord-stream-pipeline
Everybody should be continually reminded that it was that bl00dy idiot trump who signed the law that would impose sanctions on any company that helped Gazprom finish the pipeline.
If he hadn’t interferred, it would have been finished & supplying gas to Europe and we would not be paying much higher energy bills.
On his head, add all the people who are going to be dying this winter because of his idiotic, small-minded decision.
As I remember Putin viewed your guy as “a President of Nothing”
RT
– The 76-year-old [Trump] linked the incident to the conflict in Ukraine and claimed that a military confrontation between Moscow and Kiev “would definitely not have happened if I were President.”
– Washington should work towards a negotiated peace between Russia and Ukraine, Trump insisted.
Your very harsh criticism is a masterpiece, Pepe Escobar. As we are witnessing “unrestricted warfare” that only quite simply refuses to give its name, this “casus belli” amounts to no less than a declaration of war.
Indeed, “the Big Picture reveals the collective West in absolute panic, with Atlanticist “elites” willing to resort to anything – outrageous lies, assassinations, terrorism, sabotage, all out financial war, support to neo-Nazis – to prevent their descent into a geopolitical and geoeconomic abyss.”
The logic behind the Empire’s conduct was beautifully displayed at Ben Tre (Vietnam) as spelled out by some obscure, obviously deranged, American officer: “We had to destroy the village… in order to save it”, said he.
As we all know, as all of us can observe in Shakespeare: “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.”
“Gazprom is legally entitled to get paid even without shipping gas. That’s the spirit of a long-term contract.”
Not correct – when the technical means of delivery is gone, there is no obligation to pay.
That means Germany or EU must now not pay for undelivered gas.
That bombing was worth then how much?
In which case it seems that the Germans could have a motive for sabotaging NS1+2.
I tried to post a comment on that by Tom Luongo at the Cafe – removed. Search for The Curious Whodunit of Nordstreams 1 and 2.
there is definitely more to this than any simplistic jingoism….
The same set of oligarchs own and control all the assets from the western border of Russia to the west end of the Philippines. In fact the Anglo European aristocracy is the dominant player, probably. They have been historically. Yes, there are divisions between the different families. But their holdings are so interdependent that damage to one severely impacts all of them.
So, am I to believe that they have decided to destroy a massive swath of their assets to punish Russia and keep Eurasia divided?
And the icing on this cake is Liz Truss single handedly destroying the UK economy. Is that also “suicide, stupidity”. And Charlie just sits there smoking his pipe singing “Love that Good ‘n Penty” “Charlie says….”
These people have innumerable think tanks and super computers running simulations for them. So, it is hard to buy the ‘stupidity, desperation, suicide’ explanation. And it is hard to believe that all those assets going down the tubes in the EU and UK are owned “by others”. They are not. There are no “others”.
All this to keep Eurasia divided. I guess you could argue that the oligarchs “elites of the west”(Putin) would rather destroy their assets rather than let Russia and China eventually acquire them. This at least is an explanation that makes some sense. But there must be a better way to accomplish that goal.
No, something else is afoot and attributing the turn of events to desperation and stupidity does not hold up as an explanation.
I really respect you, enjoy your articles, insight and wit. But I think you and everyone else on this and other blogs are missing something big and obvious probably staring us all right in the face. I certainly don’t have an explanation.
What would Matt Ehret say?
See my comment on the Commonwealth of Europe above.
The USA already deals with the Commonwealth – remember AUKUS stealing Frances lunch?
Outsourcing to the Commonwealth of Europe . Expect Knighthoods for Service to the Crown shortly.
Missing here also is the irredeemable, utterly and terminally bankruptcy of the Transatlantic with $2 QUADRILLION nominal debt. Even if the Empire devours Europe, stiffs them with LNG that cannot possibly fix their problem.
Only breaking up the big banks, as FDR did in 1934, can lay a start.
The only problem staring right in your face, is that. Amazing you cannot see it?
Russia and Glazyev know full well that some king of international deal is inevitable – call it a New Bretton Woods.
@bonbon
Breaking up the US big banks might help a little, but what is really needed is to have all the US money supply created by the US Treasury without incurring debt to anyone. Then the banks would be reduced to being money lenders instead of money creators.
Strange, everyone here says wars are all bankers wars – fine and dandy.
Then the Iskander target must be the banks – split them hard, commercial units from investment units, no revolvin’ door. Even Glazyev shows the RCB did not prepare fully for the sanctions with such a split.
Mumblin’ and grumblin’ , going along to get along, … to hell, is still in.
This is not new, FDR in 1934 laid it all out. 1999 Clinton repealed 1934 Glass-Steagall, in German Trennbankensystem, and just look at the pileup!
2008 could not have happened under Glass-Steagall, and no bailout would be possible. Energy spot-price insanity could not happen with Glass-Steagall.
When the doers become the bankers, the bankers will have to start doing.
He would probably say, it’s the City of London behind it all. From an historical perspective, he knows who the players are in this plan.
@Cindy
You might want to ask yourself who exactly controls the City of London, that is outside the jurisdiction of the British government, and who exactly owns the Bank of England, that was supposed to have been nationalized in 1946, but is now owned by anonymous Nominees.
You know I have tried to find that out. I can’t find sources for who constitutes that other than it seems to be banks. I am assuming that Rothschild’s from the early 1800s are involved as Mayer Rothschild sent his son Nathan there to establish banking control. Others??
One of the theories I consider possible is that the macro level planners are intentionally changing the societies of the countries they control (west+aligned countries). And some of the changes they want to implement are so big that they think the best approach is to dismantle (parts of) the old system first.
One of the methods they often use is to shape the environment/situation in a way (create a crisis) that the thing they want to achieve seems to be the best option, or better yet the only way out (of the crisis they created to achieve it).
Money and assets are tools to them to manipulate society. And if they want to reliably prevent Germany+European countries from buying Russian gas, there is no better way then removing the possibility to transport it to there. Shaping reality in a way that their plan, Germany not buying so much Russian gas, is the only option left.
German tragicomedy
https://twitter.com/Karmabash/status/1575214506061373440
Germans joking (yes, it can happen..)
“In 1942 Germans were freezing in Stalingrad. Today they are freezing again, and again because of Russians. However, Germans have become smarter. This time around no need to travel all the way to Stalingrad…”
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Lone Wolf
I always saw the meme of Germans not having a sense of humor to be an Anglo thing, what with English being the default international language and the Anglosphere holding so much pop-cultural power and influence, hence the ignorance of non-Anglophone cultures, let alone (style of) humor.
I agree.
Of course you have to speak German to “get” German humor.
Puns are not, in my experience, a German forte. They
German humor relies more on tone and irony and extended ideas that often run to the ridiculous.
A lot of what passes for American humor is actually stupid wisecracks such as a standup comic specializes in.
Nuland and Truss are trying to effect The Morgenthau Plan, from the 1940s. Their “enemy” is Eurasia, Vladivostok to Lisbon, not Russia.
The biggest problem for the Eurasian circle is underestimating these neocons and neoliberals. They are ruthless and will do anything, I wonder why Putin has to continually remind them he has wonderful knew military larder constantly!!
– neocons and neoliberals.
You are talking about a thinking, by refer to that thinking as if they are leninist organisations with a HQ.
If you try to contact “neocons” you will reach a telephone answering machine telling there is no one in officer.
Quoting Pepe “The EU oligarchy is reaching an advanced process of disintegration at lightning speed. Their window of opportunity to at least attempt a role as a strategically autonomous geopolitical actor is now closed.”
These EUROcrats are now facing a serious predicament??
Let’s introduce the array of Oligarchs but include the UK, and US Oligarchs. This is a very Elite Club who are ALL deeply tied into the US/UK/EU Financial Hegemon that has made untold profits from Real Estate, Hedge Funds, the Stock Markets, and Bonds while spunging off the Central Banks in the US/EU/Uk
While Gonzalo Lira referred, yesterday, to the problems going on in the Western Markets, ETC, he was the first one, who noted that the whole system is under a good deal of stress. We needn’t go into particulars, except since 2009, stocks/bonds, etc.increased the Oligarchy’s total wealth to atmospheric levels, while spawning untold riches for the Elite Club. The “free ride” ended in 2019. Fed Chairman Powell, Mark Carney, Larry Fink of Black Rock and others met in autumn 2019 to figure out a way to save their foundering PROFIT Machine. Then Covid hit with lockdowns, causing massive trade issues while clamping down on millions of unsuspecting Western citizens.
By early 2022, and seeing the growing trade between Russia, China, Others who were using less and less Dollars…. the Financial Elite came up with a two pronged plan to “right their sinking ship.”
Using all the bought-off UK/EU politicians and the press, the US announced massive sanctions against Russia, instigated Ukraine with their little sock puppet, Zelensky by plying him with “NATO armament.” Pretty soon, every UK/EU politician were repeating the same mantra. By extension, this began hurting German Manufacturing and Trade that had extended outward towards China, Russia, and other important trading ports
So now we are witnessing their Opening Salvo: with no more Russian gas/oil, multiple millions of UK/EU citizens are already receiving huge energy bills, increased food costs. That’s just for starters. Wait until the Financial Oligarchs start destroying public health care, public universities, public transportation, with millions losing their jobs or being reduced to working part time as is the case in the US.
Cheers.
Lady Europa is about to fall…in a hole of her own making…
https://twitter.com/LogKa11/status/1575208642294730752/photo/1
It’s comical how the Nord Stream sabotage will be investigated by Sweden, a NATO applicant . But they can only investigate under strict US supervision.
Funniest part of this is that Russia, the country which designed and built the pipes, isn’t allowed to take part
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Lone Wolf
Lone Wolf, Did you read my reply to your comment regarding my living in the Appalachian mountains?
Haven’t these devil’s disciples learned anything yet ? Look at history, or look at ‘modern’ times. Don’t they recognize yet ? The devil is a self-loathing entity. He treats those who serve him best with the greatest disgust.
Could any of Hitler’s enemies have done anything worst to him than what he did to himself at the guidance of his spiritual father the devil by shooting himself in the head while at the same time biting down on the cyanide capsule, after giving strict orders to his orderly to pour gasoline on his and her bodies after they were dead and burning them beyond all recognition.
If a person, even in their last few breaths, comes into realization of the weight of their sinful life and truly repents of them and asks the savior Jesus to forgive them, they will be saved from hellfire for eternity.
Just as Hitler left himself no space of time for repentance, so also those who follow radical religious creeds and blow themselves up to murder souls they perceive as enemies of their religious beliefs ensure there will be no time for reconsideration and repentance for themselves.
Once our souls leave these bodies, our address for eternity is irrevocably sealed. Being prayed out of purgatory by living relatives after we’re dead in the flesh is a false belief by false teachers. Don’t fall prey to it.
The devil will steal your soul if you let him. For example Sal Alnisky said in the year during which he died, in an interview with playboy magazine that he hoped when he died that he would go to hell, because he said that that is where all of the nonconformists will be. Obviously he swallowed all of the BS the devil shoveled at him.
God is faithful and He is trustworthy (and just a hint for you who struggle with this) He is not in any way religious.
“Once our souls leave these bodies, our address for eternity is irrevocably sealed.”
That never felt true to me. I suspect it is an extremely simplified version of an infinitely more complex process/system. It could be a way of saying that what you do in this life has consequences that go beyond this life.
But this short life being a test of which the result decides where you go after this life, an extremely good place or the opposite, an extremely bad place for eternity.
IMO that is way to black/white and lacks all the colors that lay between the light and the darkness, proportionality, complexity.
Thank you for your response. Supposing you were God. And we all know there is only one true God.
What if you suddenly come into consciousness in a fully grown human body on the earth and as you explore your environment, you acknowledge all of the other life forms around you ; birds, animals, fish, plants, trees, etc., but you cannot relate to them on their level, or they you on your level.
Wouldn’t you eventually want to have another human that you could share all of your living experiences with and experience companionship with ? God knows about loneliness.
He said after He created Adam, “it is not good for man to be alone”, thus He created a wife for him, Eve. Why do you think it is that we who have embraced salvation from our sins through Jesus Christ are referred to as “the bride of Christ ?”
God is creating His own family and offspring through His ‘Son’ Jesus Christ. And yet when we knew Him when He walked in the flesh down here, one of us (Phillip) said to Him one day,”Lord, show us the Father and it sufficeth us” and Jesus said to him, ” Have I been with you so long and yet you know me not” ?
The truth of life in the ‘Universe’ is founded on the Spiritual, and Supernatural, rather than the physical ! And as we are told in the Bible, our life in the flesh down here is but a vapor which was formed from dust and when we die returns back to dust.
It is often not easy for intellectuals to grasp this because the hold we have on this life through our intellect often interferes with our ability to come to personal humility, and set aside pride and accept meekness where it is called for.
In fact I believe Lucifer may have come about by God Almighty’s desire to have an entity somewhat on His own level to assuage loneliness. We were told that God created Lucifer above all of the other angels, and apparently gave him some powers of creation also. We have been told in the Bible (Matt 13:37-39) that God planted the children of the Kingdom of Heaven down here, and His enemy the devil planted the children of the wicked one down here. Lucifer (aka; Satan, and the Devil) soon fell to pride because he wanted to assert himself as greater than his creator. When he fell to pride, a third of all of the angels in heaven fell with him and followed him in his rebellion. Two thirds of the angels in heaven remained faithful to God Almighty.
Yes, God created angels, and many of them are great and powerful and those who are faithful do what God tells them to do. But God did not give them free will. God our Heavenly Father desires those to love Him who He has given the ability to choose to love Him or not of their own free will. In this way, He is creating His own offspring.
This brief life we go through down here is a separation process. God uses it to separate the ‘wheat from the tares (weeds). That is to say ‘those who love Him, versus those who love themselves more than Him, like Lucifer. God doesn’t need longer to know what is in a man or woman’s heart.
The Lord Jesus Christ spoke to me up there before He put me in my mothers womb down here. When He did I had 3 months to go before I would be delivered out of the womb into this life. I remember my conversation with Him up there, my time in the womb, my delivery out of it, my infancy, and my toddler years in this life very vividly.
It appears that God is simply using the Devil’s children down here to prove up and perfect us as He allows adversity through the evil ones down here to come against us in measured ways and prepare us as the perfect virgin without spot or blemish to be the ‘Bride of Jesus Christ’.
Remember, God created all of the colors of the rainbow as a gift of love to us His true children to comfort us that He will never again destroy all living creatures on the earth through a flood. Everything God Almighty does His enemy Lucifer the devil tries to trample on. Thus the devil’s children chose the ‘rainbow’ colors to signify support for homosexuality( an attempt to destroy the male/female family structure and the means created by God for new souls to be brought onto the earth.
God is completely trustworthy and faithful (and just a hint for some of you who struggle with this) God is not in any way religious. Also He knows how to “grade on the curve” so-to-speak. None of the rainbow colors will be left out when we go through the ‘White Throne Judgement’.
May God bless you and all of your loved ones and keep you safe through the times ahead.
Some of you might have seen this on several Telegram chats. It illustrates just how persistent the US is in its fear/hate of Russian and German trade. Back in 1982 the US blew up a Soviet gas
line into Europe – without using explosives.
◾Reagan Approved Plan to Sabotage Soviets, the US blowed up a Russian gas pipeline in Siberia in the summer of 1982.
◾The information from this text was first published in The Guardian
By David E. Hoffman February 27, 2004.
◾In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a memoir by a Reagan White House official.
Thomas C. Reed, a former Air Force secretary who was serving in the National Security Council at the time, describes the episode in “At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War,” published by Ballantine Books. Reed writes that the pipeline explosion was just one example of “cold-eyed economic warfare” against the Soviet Union that the CIA carried out under Director William J. Casey during the final years of the Cold War.
At the time, the United States was attempting to block Western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas. There were also signs that the Soviets were trying to steal a wide variety of Western technology.
“In order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy, the pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines, and valves was programmed to go haywire, after a decent interval, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds,” Reed writes.
“The result was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space,” he recalls, adding that U.S. satellites picked up the explosion. Reed said in an interview that the blast occurred in the summer of 1982.
Reed said he obtained CIA approval to publish details about the operation. The CIA learned of the full extent of the KGB’s pursuit of Western technology in an intelligence operation known as the Farewell Dossier. Portions of the operation have been disclosed earlier, including in a 1996 paper in Studies in Intelligence, a CIA journal. The paper was written by Gus W. Weiss, an expert on technology and intelligence who was instrumental in devising the plan to send the flawed materials and served with Reed on the National Security Council. Weiss died Nov. 25 at 72
It is possible that the explosives were introduced from WITHIN the pipelines, using those devices which are known as ‘pigs’. These are typically employed for internal inspections and welding of pipelines.
Of course, this would require the collusion of a State Actor with access to a pipeline’ terminus. I would not be surprised to find that the Germans had a hand in the destruction of these pipelines.
That is total bunk. The pipe pressure was over 100 bar. A bar is just below 1 ATA or about 14.5 PSI. At 100 bar then, the pipe would be 1450 PSI. How exactly do you push a pig down against a 1450 PSI pipeline?
A pig is an inflatable bladder used to seal a pipe. Nordstream 2 pipe is 45′ diameter. That circle has 1590 square inches. 1450 psi x 1590 is 1,152 US tons.
There is no level of collusion that would make this remotely possible.
From memory, ‘pigs’ can be introduced at any recompression station that has a port, they travel along the pipe inside, and x-ray for defects like corrosion or poor/failing welds. The fluid, moving from high pressure to low pressure in the pipe is what moves it. Inspection of the line will tell if it was an internal or external attack.
I don’t think a pig is big enough to carry the amount of TnT that registered as a seismic event. The pipes are encased in cement, it would take a rather large, directed charge, to damage them.
btw bertdilbert, you have no idea of the level of collusion evil will go to, to achieve it goals.
If they could fail a submarine with a depth charge in WW2, they can fail a pipeline with an external charge today. The cement on the pipe is just a weight coat to keep the pipe from floating. With a big enough charge, you could probably just dump a device off the back of a boat and do the job.
30 years ago, I worked a job where they were locating manholes on a pipe. Sometimes the anchor for the buoy line fell right on top the manhole plate. My theory is if you can drop an anchor on a manhole, you can drop a bomb on a pipe.
It seems the US thinks the rest of the world is as stupid as they are.
https://beforeitsnews.com/eu/2022/09/imperial-convulsions-a-compilation-concerning-the-nord-stream-sabotage-2694680.html
”In support of BALTOPS, U.S. Navy 6th Fleet partnered with U.S. Navy research and warfare centers to bring the latest advancements in unmanned underwater vehicle mine hunting technology to the Baltic Sea to demonstrate the vehicle’s effectiveness in operational scenarios.
Experimentation was conducted off the coast of Bornholm, Denmark, with participants from Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, and Mine Warfare Readiness and Effectiveness Measuring all under the direction of U.S. 6th Fleet Task Force 68.”
“Off the coast of Bornholm, Denmark, is where the pipelines were hit. Just days ago the USS Kearsarge was in that area…
..On September 2, interesting maneuvers performed by an American helicopter with the call sign FFAB123. Then it was assumed that this board was from the USS Kearsarge air wing,and today more details were looked.
According to the website ads-b.nl , this call sign was used by 6 boards that day, of which we managed to establish the side numbers of three. All of them are Sikorsky MH-60S.
By superimposing the FFAB123 route on the scheme of yesterday’s accident, we get a rather interesting result — the helicopter either flew along the Nord Stream-2 highway, or even between the points where the accident occurred…
..Meanwhile, mine operations served as an ideal area of focus for testing new technology.
Scientists from ****five nations**** brought the latest advancements in Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) mine hunting technology to the Baltic Sea to demonstrate the vehicle’s effectiveness in operational scenarios. The BALTOPS Mine Counter Measure Task Group ventured throughout the Baltic region practicing ordnance location, exploitation, and disarming in critical maritime chokepoints… In 2021, while Nord Stream 2 was still being build, the Polish navy had interfered and endangered the pipe laying vessels in the very same place…”
Five nations?? US, UK, Denmark, Sweden, Poland??
The case for a more radical climate movement
https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/22691428/vox-conversations-climate-change-andreas-malm
Interview in Oct 2021 with the author, Malm, of this book :
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Andreas-Malm/dp/1839760257
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
Not saying NATO read the book, but anyone that ever heard of the Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski arrested in 1995 after a 17 year chase, it sure looks like it.
Is Malm and Kaczynski require reading at Green Party salons? This question must be publicly answered!!!
Yet another Malm book :
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/B0932TRYCX/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3
White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism
My, oh my, have them Green a lotta readin’ to do!
From “White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism”
– Fossil-fueled technologies were born steeped in racism. None loved them more passionately than the classical fascists.
Or .. why oil is racist
Some friends got it spot-on : NATO’s Extinction Rebellion blew up NordStream.
Russia Says Sanctions Prevent It From Maintaining Gas Pipeline To Turkey, Balkans
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-sanctions-south-stream-gas-halt/32058191.html#0_8_10089_8766_2710_243732410
hit the same day, and Hungary is directly affected!
And :
Media: underwater power cable could be damaged due to explosions at Nord Streams
https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/15914347
Collateral damage?
SouthStream, at 1000m’s depth, seismically active, is a totally different kettle of fish.
Putins speech with translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIuN6v_cmNM&t=1615s
Quoting Pepe “The EU oligarchy is reaching an advanced process of disintegration at lightning speed. Their window of opportunity to at least attempt a role as a strategically autonomous geopolitical actor is now closed.”
These EUROcrats are now facing a serious predicament??
Let’s introduce the array of Oligarchs but include the UK, and US Oligarchs. This is a very Elite Club who are ALL deeply tied into the US/UK/EU Financial Hegemon that has made untold profits from Real Estate, Hedge Funds, the Stock Markets, and Bonds while spunging off the Central Banks in the US/EU/Uk
While Gonzalo Lira referred, yesterday, to the problems going on in the Western Markets, ETC, he was the first one, who noted that the whole system is under a good deal of stress. We needn’t go into particulars, except since 2009, stocks/bonds, etc.increased the Oligarchy’s total wealth to atmospheric levels, while spawning untold riches for the Elite Club. The “free ride” ended in 2019. Fed Chairman Powell, Mark Carney, Larry Fink of Black Rock and others met in autumn 2019 to figure out a way to save their foundering PROFIT Machine. Then Covid hit with lockdowns, causing massive trade issues while clamping down on millions of unsuspecting Western citizens.
By early 2022, and seeing the growing trade between Russia, China, Others who were using less and less Dollars…. the Financial Elite came up with a two pronged plan to “right their sinking ship.”
Using all the bought-off UK/EU politicians and the press, the US announced massive sanctions against Russia, instigated Ukraine with their little sock puppet, Zelensky by plying him with “NATO armament.” Pretty soon, every UK/EU politician were repeating the same mantra. By extension, this began hurting German Manufacturing and Trade that had extended outward towards China, Russia, and other important trading ports
So now we are witnessing their Opening Salvo: with no more Russian gas/oil, multiple millions of UK/EU citizens are already receiving huge energy bills, increased food costs. That’s just for starters. Wait until the Financial Oligarchs start destroying public health care, public universities, public transportation, with millions losing their jobs or being reduced to working part time as is the case in the US.
Cheers.
@KRL
It is all going according plan.
Bull. There is a fly in the ointment – RF’s Putin. The Plan just went with the Titanic, still sinkin’ all the way down.
I did not say whose plan, did I :-)
Saul Alinsky- author of “Rules for Radicals”: In it he states, “Power is not only the power that you have, but the power that your enemy thinks you have” !
Well reports i have seen today the town of Lyman has been taken by the Nazis,seems to me it was the DPR forces who were holding the line there as a sort of rear guard and not that many of them,facing a Natzo/Ukrainian force of up to eight thousand,its clear Russia had nowhere near enough men for the special operation,i just hope the Russians have a plan in mind to start driving the Nazis back,they really need to take the gloves off,and i still don’t understand why Russia isn’t deploying the full force of its aviation?
The best way to kill Ukrainian forces is to lure them out of their holes and into an offensive operation. In order to get Zelensky to say “All In!”, you must yield and give the appearance of success with continued action. So, this might take a few days for Ukraine to become fully committed before heavy response is inflicted.
Ultimately, I would think Russia would prefer to take Odessa since it is strategically more important and is the greater PR loss for Ukraine. If Ukraine goes all in to the North, it is weak everywhere else.
Pepe quote; “We must go back to Mackinder: control of the Eurasian land mass constitutes control of the world.”
It might be wiser to go back to Rothschild “He who controls the money supply………..”
The world now has a shadow banking system dominating international finance, which is unregulated other than by the City of London and Wall Street Financial elites.
It is not discussed by …….. anyone…….. yet it explains so much.
Pepe quote; “American elites” in this context encompass the deranged, Straussian neo-con-infested “intel community” and the Big Energy, Big Pharma and Big Finance that pays them and who profits not only from the Deep State’s Forever War approach but also wants to make a killing out of the Davos-concocted Great Reset.”
Just as in all groups, there would be hierarchies within the elite class. Perhaps the demarcation would be even more acute given their behaviour and law of the jungle mentality.
There would be en elite within the elite. It would be the bankers……the old money.
This accords with that famous quote and much that we witness.
Most of the horrors we call history have been committed to protect the privilege of being the creators of money.
Everything else is a subset of that fact.
Our history may be seen as their history. We just do the working, the fighting and the dying.
The way I see it, it’s not just the pipes! For one thing, internet undersea cables are pretty vulnerable!
Putin should fill the pipes with oil to protect the pipe from sea water damage. Let the West worry about the oil coming out of the end! What choice does Putin have if they will not allow repairs.
Then Putin can get an upfront fee to shut down the oil flow and pay for the war. LMAO.
I had a great time reading this article, it was so on target.
But what people have to realise is that the US Government is, in reality, a British Territorial government, not a lawful American republican government.
You can find out about the origins of this fraud by reading everything about Abraham Lincoln, on Anna von Reitz’s website: https://www.annavonreitz.com/
You can start with this one: http://annavonreitz.com/lincolntherat.pdf and then go on and read the rest-they re very informative.
Lincoln was a BAR Association attorney, and thus incapable of sitting in the American (not US-the US didn’t exist at that stage) Congress because lawyers were prohibited from doing so-and for very good reason.
So what Lincoln did was turn the American government into a corporation, make himself the Numero Uno, and take it from there.
The lawful American courts were done away with and Admiralty/ Maritime-the law of commerce-became the prevailing law, unconstitutionally.
Anna and her crew have unraveled the fraud, with over forty years of work and study.
You will all be interested that, in great part due to her work, the American dollar is now backed by gold.
This is the essentials of it (the original is over two hours):
https://everydayconcerned.net/2022/10/19/report-298-breaking-news-anna-von-reitz-reports-the-american-government-has-backed-the-us-dollar-with-gold-global-banking-and-economic-collapse-averted-us-and-australian-debt-paid-off/
This is good news for an Aussie like me.