And exploded its leverage over Europe. Can anyone take this seriously?Just because both Joe Biden and State Department diplomat Victoria Nuland
(who came to fame when, in 2014, she insisted to the US’ ambassador to
Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt that it would be the US’ choice of who ran
Ukraine, not Europe’s choice [“Fuck the EU”] in a leaked phone call)
— threatened to disable the Nordstream pipelines, well, that doesn’t
mean the US government is guilty. There isn’t any evidence, is there?
“Nuland said on video,
on January 27, 2022, “If Russia invades Ukraine, one way or another,
NordStream 2 will not move forward.” You can also watch her on Twitter.
Nuland’s
husband is the equally loathesome Robert Kagan, cofounder of the 1998
Project for a New American Century. Her father, believe it or not, was a
famous bioethicist and surgeon. The apple fell far from the tree.
What does today’s WaPo say?
“so
much methane spewing into the atmosphere… several hundred thousand tons
from the pipelines” and the effect on climate is unclear.
“Paul
Balcombe, a senior lecturer in chemical engineering and renewable
energy at London’s Queen Mary University, called it a “really potent
greenhouse gas” and said that “even a little leak has quite a climate
impact.”
Swedish monitoring stations that
measure local atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases have
reported spikes since the pipeline burst, with the methane concentration
20 to 25 percent higher than usual, “which is quite remarkable compared
with our long-term data series,” Thomas Holst, a researcher at Lund
University in Sweden, told The Washington Post in an email, while
maintaining it was not enough to pose a health risk.
Despite
the size of the leak, it isn’t likely to affect marine life in the way
an oil leak might, said Jasmin Cooper, a research associate at the
Sustainable Gas Institute. “The environmental impact will be toward
global warming.”
Danish officials said
Wednesday that they anticipate both pipelines being empty by Sunday, as
more than half of the gas had already been released. Once the gas is
gone, they said, scientists and security officials will have better
access to the site, which has been limited because of safety concerns.
Really? We have robotic vehicles that travel along the ocean floor. I happen to have met one of the designers of
such vehicles. We have small submarines. We have underwater
cameras/drones. You mean to tell me no one has sent any of these
devices down to look at the site? To collect what is left of the
munitions? To plant evidence? Who believes this trash?
Arms
experts say it is difficult to guess what kind of munition might have
caused the damage. It is possible that a torpedo was used, but it is
more likely that divers or an autonomous underwater vehicle put one or
more demolition charges on each site. To identify the weapon or weapons
used, more evidence — including additional sensor data, as well as
physical evidence such as munition remnants — would be required.
With
the consensus among European leaders that sabotage was involved,
suspicion is increasingly falling on Russia, which has used energy
supplies as leverage against Europe since the invasion of Ukraine.
Two
senior officials with two European security services said Russia
remains a main suspect because it has the technical means to carry out
subsurface attacks on key infrastructure and has demonstrated its
determination to destabilize energy markets in Europe.
The
officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the
sensitivity of the subject, emphasized that these are preliminary,
analytic conclusions with no evidence emerging so far to implicate
Moscow.
Notice how the article does not say that the
pipes were owned by Gazprom to ship Russian natural gas to Europe, which
would earn Russia a considerable sum. Nor does the article say that it
cost Russia probably billions to install the pipelines. Nor does it
say that the ability to provide or withhold gas from Germany gave Russia
incredible leverage over the country.
Now, you don’t
suspect the US or UK or NATO (hard to separate them) wanted to end
Germany’s dependence on Russia, and raise the price of energy (the US is the #2 energy producing country in the world,
after China and right before Russia, believe it or not)? Loss of the
pipelines for now will keep energy prices up, which is actually good for
China, the US and Russia. Saudi Arabia is #4.
It is
strange that energy prices have gone so crazy in Europe for months,
while in the US, they have not even doubled, and have been coming down
recently. What controls energy markets in Europe?
I also want to
point out that whoever did this was apparently not at all concerned that
the biggest methane spill in history of a greenhouse gas would worsen
so-called climate change.
What did the NY Times have to say?
Re the climate impact:
As
of Wednesday, more than half of the fuel that was in the pipelines had
leaked out, according to Kristoffer Böttzauw, the head of the Danish
Energy Agency. By Sunday, it could all be gone.
The toll from the
leaks could amount to the equivalent of 32 percent of Denmark’s annual
emissions, Mr. Böttzauw said, adding, “There is a significant climate
impact because methane is many times more damaging to the climate than
CO2.”
What did the Times say about whodunnit?
Speculation has pointed to Russia,
whose state-controlled energy company, Gazprom, is the main owner of
the pipelines. A spokesman for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia,
Dmitri S. Peskov, dismissed allegations of Russian involvement as
“stupid” and pointed a finger at the United States.
That is what I would have said, too. The allegation is simply stupid.
At least the Times provides some context and history.
Nord Stream 1, which began operating in 2011, was until recently the main conduit for bringing gas to Germany — enough to supply more than half of the country’s annual consumption and still pass some along to its neighbors. The pipeline is roughly 760 miles long, most of it underwater.
Construction was completed last year on the second line, Nord Stream 2, which was intended to double those flows, providing a big, modern line into northwest Europe. But it never became fully operational: The German government shelved the project in February, just as Russia began to invade Ukraine.
The German government was the cause of the energy deficit for Germany’s populace. How have the crooks who planned to ration energy stayed in office?
Even though European countries have cut back their consumption of natural gas in response to high prices and entreaties from their governments, the fuel remains of vital importance for heating homes and keeping businesses running.
…
on the surface, it is unclear why Moscow would seek to damage
installations that cost Gazprom billions of dollars to build and
maintain. The leaks are expected to delay any possibility of receiving
revenue from fuel going through the pipes.
On the other hand, the natural gas market is spooked, which helps Russia by raising the price of its gas. On
Monday, prices for European gas futures had fallen by nearly half from
their high in August. After news of the leaks, they rose nearly 20
percent to about 205 euros (or $191) per megawatt-hour, roughly five times the level of a year ago.
So, who exactly controls Europe’s energy markets?
The
US dollar has dropped about 3% from its high right after the
explosions. Knowing about the explosions ahead of time could have made a
lot of money for currency speculators as well as those selling energy.
Current oil price is about $80/barrel in the US, nothing special.
Check out oil prices over the past 70 years, inflation-adjusted, here.
It
may not be a coincidence that a conduit from Norway to Poland known as
the Baltic Pipe was opened on Tuesday. It was conceived to ease Warsaw’s
dependence on Russia and passes close to where the leaks are.
So North Sea energy was already planned to help ease the demand.
Finally,
the Times concludes its article with the nonsensical innuendo that
Russia is attacking Ukraine’s energy grid (and even the nuclear power
plant the Russians themselves control) and the Nordstream attacks could
be related. Duh?
Why am I paying for these newspaper
subscriptions? So you and I can hear the propaganda from the horse’s
mouth. So we can study the globalists’ words, learn to read between the
lines, and teach others how the propaganda works.
Good night, my friends.
