Back in January, Victoria Nuland made a similar remark during a briefing at the State Department: “If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.”
As the article mentions, the US is attracting German companies with cheap energy and low taxes.Governments and the media had so far refrained from noting the gigantic problems that are coming up and which industry leaders had pointed out early on. Only over the last two weeks or so have they picked up the urgent warnings.
Der Spiegel, Germany's major weekly, asks: How Bad Will the German Recession Be? and states the obvious:
The first German companies have begun throwing in the towel and consumption is collapsing in response to the fallout from exploding energy prices. The economy is sliding almost uncontrolled into a crisis that could permanently weaken the country.
The piece discusses the five stages along which the catastrophe will happen.
Act One: Freezing Production - It is becoming prohibitively expensive to produce in Germany.
Act Two: The Price Trap - No one buys at the high prices German products now cost.
Act Three: The Consumer Crisis - Needing to pay high energy prices German consumers buy less of everything else.
Act Four: The Wave of Bankruptcies.
Act Five: The Final Act on the Labor Market.
When Germany will have some 6 to 10 million unemployed people, and the government less tax income as only a few companies will be profitable, the social system will break down.
If Russia were to cut pipelines in the Baltic Sea it would damage those that bring Norwegian gas to Europe, not the pipelines it owns and which give it some leverage.
Russia thus surely has no plausible interest in sabotaging the Nord Stream system. Others though do have such interests. They likely want Germany to 'stay in line' with their war to Decolonize Russia. The major potential actors behind this are the U.S., the British, the Ukrainian and the Polish government or a mixture of those.
Geography, and the shallow depth of the Baltic Sea, seem to exclude that a U.S. or British submarines did the damage. Ukraine does not have access to the Baltic Sea. Poland, which had already tried to prevent or hinder the Nord Stream II construction, is the most likely actor behind this though I doubt that it would dare to act alone.
If you know Russian, you can listen to Starikov's opinion on the North Stream gas pipelines sabotage. But this video is still interesting even if you don't know Russian. It shows how these pipelines look like, how they are being prepared, and how they are being put underwater.
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Sweden and Denmark’s coastguards have since reported gas leaks off the coast of Bornholm island in the Baltic Sea – one in the Swedish economic zone and one in the Danish zone – and closed off the area to maritime traffic.
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Bucolic in summer and storm-swept in winter, Gotland is more than just beachside cottages and sheep pastures. Sitting between the Baltic coasts of Sweden and Latvia (and along the maritime route between Saint Petersburg and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad), Gotland is key to controlling the surrounding seas and would be a highly valuable target in any conflict.
The Poles are trying so hard, what would it be?It seems some will not keep guessing
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The Wiki says Radosław Sikorski is married to Anna Applebaum. Link to Twitter, but I took a screenshot for good measure.
Damaged Gas Lines
CIA warned the Federal government prior to the attack on the Baltic sea Pipelines
It's the signs of a planned attack against the two Nord Stream pipelines condense. According to SPIEGEL information, there were already in the run-up to evidence from the United States.
By Matthias Gebauer, Roman Höfner and Fidelius Schmid
27.09.2022, 19.29 PM
Eventually they may try, but will it work? This evening, the PM of the Danish Government held a meeting and said they have no trace of evidence of who might have done it and why. In a way, that is not all that bad. It leaves the middle ground open for people to wonder. If they know it is an ally, they will probably wait until they have the most coherent story to tell.But the puppets will probably also blame this on Russia too. It could have far reaching and dire consequences for Europe?
Sorry for the double post, but I just caught this article on SOTT, and I suppose that Europeans could hope that this Baltic Pipeline will be enough to hold them through the winter. But I guess what they don't realize is that, this makes them entirely beholden to the whims of NATO ie. the US.. and their sovereignty is even less after that... if that Pipeline works as promised that is.What do they think Russia will do? close the pipeline on the Russian end so as to not waste gas, and then take their sweet time fixing it, while they're warm at home through the winter.. and Europe? they'll freeze their butts off while their bank accounts are empty, and their money and weapons are sent to Ukraine, maybe buy American gas at triple the price (maybe) and go through a really rough winter.