Wie blies de Russisch-Duitse Nord Stream I en II pijpleidingen op? Cui bono?

Een vraag die belangrijk licht schijnt op motieven en mogelijke daders. Hoewel tegennatuurlijk voor sommigen, wijst veel erop dat niet Rusland, maar juist de Verenigde Staten deze terreurdaad beging.

In een rake analyse van de gebeurtenissen in de Baltische Zee van 27 september jongstleden legt Tucker Carlson de feiten helder bloot. De vraag ‘wie profiteert?’ wordt duidelijk beantwoord: in elk geval niet Poetin, die wel gek moet zijn om z’n eigen kapitaal, z’n potentiële inkomstenstroom en z’n belangrijkste leverage richting het Energie-bedürftige Duitsland en de rest van Europa te vernietigen.

Ondanks dat, zijn de conclusies van de westerse kranten en media die beweren dat Poetin z’n eigen pijpleiding heeft gesaboteerd, niet van de lucht.

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“Fuck the EU!”

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Voor Amerika is dat precies andersom. Het finaal ‘beëindigen’ van Nord Stream is niet alleen datgene waarmee zowel Joe Biden nog vóór de start van de Speciale Militaire Operaties van Rusland stoer dreigde – “Then there will be no longer a North Stream 2”. Maar ook Victoria Nuland – bekend van haar saillante telefoongesprek “Fuck the EU!” op de vooravond van de US-backed coup in 2014 waarin ze nota bene met de Amerikaanse ambassadeur in Oekraïne, Geoffrey Pyatt, bespreekt wie als VS stroman als president van Oekraïne ‘democratisch verkozen’ ging worden – zei exact hetzelfde al trots in januari van dit jaar:

"With regard to Nord Stream 2, uh, we continue to have, uh, very strong and clear conversations, uh, with our German allies. And I wanna be clear with you today: if Russia invades Ukraine one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward! One way or the other. We'll stop Nord Stream."

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Geen Russisch gas naar Europa

Daarnaast is het evident dat de VS profiteert van het, ook voor de toekomst, onmogelijk maken van gasleveranties van Rusland aan Europa via de Nordstream pijpleidingen. Het is de VS geweest die al voor de ingebruikname van Nord Stream II pijpleiding tussen Rusland en Duitsland, handelsembargo’s. en regelrechte dreigementen uitsprak tegen elk bedrijf dat nog maar meewerkte aan de bouw ervan. Het Europese continent moest tegen elke prijs van het Russisch gas en aan het veel duurdere Amerikaanse LNG.

En sterker nog: op dezelfde dag dat door mysterieuze omstandigheden 2 ontploffingen en 3 lekkages de Nord Stream pijpleiding voor op z’n minst lange tijd stil legden, opende – oh toeval – net een nieuwe Baltic Pipeline, die Noors gas, via Denemarken naar Polen transporteert.

Cui bono?

Niet zonder risico’s

Tucker noemt de schrijnende tegenstelling tussen de jarenlange klimaatpaniek van de Biden regering en de vreselijk belangrijke rol daarin van methaan enerzijds en de schaamteloze natuurramp die het gevolg is van het opblazen van de pijpleidingen, waarbij miljoenen kubieke meters methaan in de zee en de lucht worden losgelaten.

Maar nog veel groter is het risico van de zoveelste escalatie die hiermee door de VS is gedaan.

• Na decennia van bouwen aan Oekraine als strategisch bruggenhoofd om Rusland mee te kunnen breken;

• Het kantelen van de Oekrainse pro-russische regering naar een pro-VS regime in 2014;

• Het sindsdien stelselmatig laten vernederen, mishandelen en tot Untermensch degraderen van de russisch-etnische Oekraïense burgers in de Donbass en Donetsk regio’s;

• De aanhoudende bombardementen op de eigen burgerbevolking met 14.000 doden tot gevolg,

• Het negeren van de Minsk akkoorden \en het opbouwen van een alarmerend grote NAVO troepenmacht op de stoep van Rusland..

waren hierin al uiterst gevaarlijke voorbereidende stappen.

• Het weigeren van de onderhandeling met Rusland eind 2021, waarbij Rusland ter waarborg van de eigen nationale veiligheid aandrong op een soeverein en neutraal Oekraïne dat geen onderdeel van de NAVO zou worden (wat het toen en nu trouwens ook niet is) en dat het geen onderdeel van de EU zou worden (wat het toen en nu trouwens ook niet is) en het daarmee direct aansturen op de Speciale Militaire Operaties van Rusland.

• Het frustreren van diplomatieke onderhandelingen (de diplomaten van Oekraïne en Rusland kwamen al in april 2022 op hoofdlijnen een vredesakkoord overeen, maar dat werd door het westen (in persoon van Boris Johnson) afgeschoten. Want niet vrede, maar oorlog is het doel.

• En - most telling of all - het inmiddels al $67 miljard in de Oekraïne-oorlog pompen. Geld dat wordt betaald aan de oorlogsindustrie en wapenleveranciers die daarmee zorgen voor nog meer oorlog. Nog meer dode Russische en Oekrainse militairen. Nog meer Oost-Oekrainse burgers gedood met westerse wapens.
  
  Let wel. $67 miljard alleen al van de VS. Een bedrag dat meer is dan het totale (!) Russische defensiebudget voor heel 2021.

Top 10 Countries with the Highest Military Expenditures (2020), bron: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/military-spending-by-country

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Hoog spel. Met opzet?

Tucker Carlson ziet de machinaties van het westen met lede ogen aan. Al een jaar of twee even verrassend (als intussen niet meer) dat juist uit deze hoek geluiden van zowel politiek links (Tulsi Gabbard, Michael Shellenberger, Glenn Greenwald) als politiek conservatief samen klinken in een strijd voor vrijheid, voor een open wetenschappelijk debat, voor transparantie, voor rechtstatelijkheid, voor gelijkheid voor de wet, voor gezondheid, voor vrede en voor gezond verstand.

Vanuit dit perspectief maakt Tucker Carlson zich – terecht – grote zorgen over de vrijwel grenzeloze westerse agressie. Waarin geen actie te goor, geen ingreep te gevaarlijk, geen positie te onhoudbaar, geen leugen te gek, geen false-flag te schaamteloos en geen sabotage te explosief lijkt.

Waarin alle redelijkheid van tafel is, en waarin zelfs het risico van een kernoorlog op het Europese continent de machthebbers niet meer doet terug deinzen.

Sterker nog. Misschien is het wel de intentie…

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– onderstaand de transcriptie van het hele fragment van Tucker Carlson –

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Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. I hate to start a Tuesday evening on a grim note, but one of the environmental catastrophes, one of the great environmental catastrophes of our time, is unfolding tonight off the coast of Denmark. The Nord Stream pipelines, which were enormous Russian owned conduits that carry natural gas from Russia to Western Europe have been breached as we speak.

Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 are pouring millions of cubic meters of natural gas into the Baltic. Pictures from the air, which you can now see on your screen, show a toxic bubble field more than half a mile wide. You can only guess at how many marine mammals are being killed right now. Countless, but the lasting damage may be to the atmosphere.

Natural gas is comprised of up to 90% Methane. Methane, as Joe Biden has often told you, is the key driver of global warming, which is of course 'an essential threat to humanity and the planet'. So if you're worried about climate change, what just happened to the Nord Stream pipelines is as close to the apocalypse as we have ever come.

So the question is, how did this happen? And it turns out it was not an accident. At the very same time that leaks in these pipelines were detected, Swedish officials recorded two powerful undersea explosions, each one of which was equivalent to hundreds of pounds of TNT. Nothing in nature can account for that.

Almost immediately the pipelines began leaking in three separate places. So there's only one explanation for what happened: this was an act of industrial terrorism. That was very obvious to the Prime Minister of Poland, and he wasted no time in saying so. Watch.

"Today we are also dealing with an act sabotage. We do not know the details of what happened. But we can clearly see that it is an act of sabotage, an act that probably marks the next stage in the escalation of the situation we are dealing with in Ukraine."

We can clearly see, he said, this was an act of sabotage, an act of terrorism. Well, yes, we can see that.

So the question is who did it? And of course the prime suspect is obvious. It would be the same man who caused domestic inflation here in the US and stole the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton. That'd be Vladimir Putin. The Washington Post got right to it. Putin, they declared, is now weaponizing the Nord Stream pipelines.

According to the Canadian ambassador to the UN, Vladimir Putin has decided to use "pollution as an act of war". Progressive Twitter strongly endorsed this conclusion. "Putin did it" and that makes sense until you thought about it for just a moment. Vladimir Putin may be evil, they tell us that he is evil, but is he stupid?

Probably isn't stupid, and yet, and here's the strange part, if you are Vladimir Putin, you would have to be a suicidal moron to blow up your own energy pipelines. That's the one thing you would never do. Natural gas pipelines are the main source of your power and your wealth, and most critically, your leverage over other countries.

Europe needs your energy now more than ever with winter approaching. If you can't deliver that energy, then countries like Germany have no need to pay attention to what you want. You're in the middle of a war, an all hands on deck war. So you need all the leverage you can get.

Under these circumstances there is no chance you would blow up Nord Stream 1 or 2, not now, obviously. In fact, it's so obvious that even our famously dim Secretary of State, Tony Blink, seem to acknowledge it. Sabotaging Nord Stream, he said, today, is "clearly in no one's interest".

Right. But really only half right. It is true that blowing up Nords Stream does not help Vladimir Putin. He would not do that. Why would he? But that doesn't mean that other countries wouldn't consider doing it. They would consider it, and we know they have considered it because at least one of them has said so, in public in early February, less than three weeks before the war in Ukraine began, Joe Biden suggested -on camera- that he might take out these pipelines.

Biden: "If Russia invades, uh, that means tanks or troops crossing the, uh, the, the border of Ukraine again, then uh, there will be, uh, we, there will be no longer a north team too. We, we will bring it into it."

Journalist: " How will you, how will you do that exactly? Since the project and control of the project is within Germany's control?"

Biden: "We will, uh, I promise you, we'll be able to do it."

Notice how he phrased that and he's the president, he doesn't phrase things by accident, particularly when he is reading off cards. He didn't say "I will pause the delivery of gas from Russia to Germany", he said, "there won't be a Nord Stream 2". We'll put an end to it. We'll take it out. We'll blow it up.

"How will you do this?" He was asked, "I promise you we will be able to do it." They thought this through. And yet those watching, very much including us, didn't take Biden seriously when he said it. This is the president who has declared climate change, the most pressing emergency in the history of the world. This is the man who lectures you about using a wood stove or driving an SUV because if it's emissions. This is the guy who spent billions trying to mitigate cow flatulence because of methane. Would that guy really blow up a methane pipeline in the middle of the Baltic Sea? It was hard to imagine. That would be an unimaginably reckless act. That'd be the kind of thing you would do if you wanted to start a nuclear war. It would be insane. And yet in retrospect, it's obvious they were thinking about this because Joe Biden wasn't the only person to suggest it. Victoria at the State Department said pretty much the very same.

Nuland is a lifelong war cheerleader. She worked to bring about the Iraq invasion, never apologized, kept going. She helped engineer the coup that overthrew the Ukrainian government some years back. So capable. Clearly she's capable of anything. But environmental terrorism. Even for Victoria Nuland, that seemed too much, too extreme, and yet here she is in January:

Nuland: "With regard to Nord Stream 2, uh, we continue to have, uh, very strong and clear conversations, uh, with our German allies. And I wanna be clear with you today: if Russia invades Ukraine one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward! One way or the other. We'll stop Nord Stream."

Now looking back, those words seem chilling eight months later as natural gas pours into the Baltic Sea and into the atmosphere. So you have to ask, could the Biden administration really do something like this? We can't say for sure. We don't know for sure. We can tell you that close allies of the Biden White House believe they certainly did do it.

Radek Sikorski is a Polish politician. He's chairman of the EU -USA Delegation in the European Parliament. He's connected. He's also the husband of regime stenographer Ann Applebaum of the Atlantic Magazine. Sikorski is so close to Joe Biden, he's got a picture of the two of them together in his Twitter profile. So when the pipelines blew up, Sikorski responded immediately, and here's what he wrote; "Thank you USA!"

So once again, did the Biden administration really do this? It's hard to believe, given that it's an atrocity, it's effectively an act of terrorism, we don't wanna make that accusation. But we should tell you that -maybe not coincidentally- today a brand new pipeline was unveiled. The pipeline that carries non-Russian natural gas in roughly the same area as Nord Streams 1 and 2.

This is called the Baltic Pipe. It was inaugurated in Poland. It will carry natural gas from Norway through Denmark to Poland and other countries nearby. And it's likely to do very well since now... it has less competition. Making sense? What does the White House say about this? How are they accounting for what happened today?

Well, they're not exactly enthusiastically denying responsibility for it. Instead, they're looking at the upside. Here's the president's publicist, noting that the destruction of yet another energy pipeline is yet another opportunity for you to buy an electric car.

White House Press Secretary: "Uh, as you all know, these pipelines weren't pumping gas into Europe at this time. Uh, Nord Stream 2 was never operational, as you guys know, Nord Stream 1 has not been operational for weeks because, uh, Putin has weaponized, uh, energy. And we have said this many times before. This just drives home the. Of our efforts to work together to get alternative gas, uh, supplies to Europe and to support efforts to reduce gas, uh, consumption, and accelerate true energy independence by moving to clean energy, uh, economy."

Oh, "moving to clean energy", say that people who very may well be responsible for letting methane, into the Baltic Sea and into the atmosphere at a scale that most people can't imagine. The people lecturing you about your SUV may have blown up a natural gas pipeline and created one of the great catastrophes of our time in its effect on the environment.

If they did this, this will be one of the craziest, most destructive things any American administration has ever done. But it would also be totally consistent with what they. What do they do? They destroy. These people, build nothing, not one thing. Instead, they tear down and they desecrate. From historic statues to the constitution to energy infrastructure. And no one in Congress is trying to stop any of it.

They're just preparing for the inevitable fallout. Tonight, the Senate just advanced is spending bill with 35 million for the Department of Energy to "prepare for, and respond to potential nuclear and radiological incidents in Ukraine." The spending bill also brings the total US expenditure on Ukraine, the war, but also funding its government and energy for Ukraine, to 67 billion on the eve of what could be a massive economic disruption here to our economy.

$67 billion. How much is that? Well, it's more than Russia's entire military budget last year. And Congress is expected to fully pass the bill later this week with Republicans nodding along like the zombies they are.

What will be the effect of this? Every action has a reaction, equal and opposite. Blow up the Nord Stream pipelines. Okay. We've entered a new phase. One in which the United States is directly at war with the largest nuclear power in the world. Doesn't mean it'll go nuclear immediately, but it does suggest there could be consequences.

If we actually blew up the North Dream pipe, why wouldn't Russia sever undersea internet cables? What would happen if they did that? What would happen if banks in London couldn't communicate with banks in New York? Just that one piece of it. Leaving aside its potential effects on our power grid, but let's just say the banks couldn't communicate with each other for one day. What the economic effect of that be? Or would it cascade downward into your house?

We can have an actual collapse. We could wind up very quickly in third world conditions. Those are the stakes. Had the people behind this, the geniuses like Victoria Nuland considered the effects? Maybe they have. Maybe that was the point.