A few hours ago, the pressure in Nord Stream 2, the undersea gas line connecting Russia and Germany, plummeted and began leaking gas bubbles into the Baltic sea near the Danish island of Bornholm. 🧵
German media is reporting that a leak in the newly built pipeline is most likely the result of sabotage.
The relatively shallow depth of the Baltic Sea at the location of the leak means that the damaged pipeline will be readily accessible by submersible and possibly even divers.
Over the coming days and weeks, we should expect to see a forensic investigation into the failure to determine the cause.
However the dramatic drop in pressure to only 7 bar (~60 m of water) suggests that the pipeline may have filled with seawater.
If that’s the case, it may be that the pipeline will require such extensive repairs that restoring it to operability is cost prohibitive.
Prior to any investigation, Western media is likely to push the theory that Russia is behind this sabotage.
Which makes little sense since there is no reason for Russia to destroy their own infrastructure they both spent billions constructing and have complete control over.
Who most clearly benefits from such a disaster?
Since the same time last year, the US has more than doubled the volumes of gas it is sending to Europe.
In this context, it is readily apparent that the US has been motivated not only to spark and maintain the conflict between Russia and Ukraine but also in subordinating Europe to temporarily buoy its own flailing economy.
Prior to this leak, the only thing preventing flow through the pipeline was a regulatory block placed in February by German Chancellor Scholz at the behest of the US.
Earlier today, protests demanding the pipeline be opened erupted in Germany. The timing is simply incredible.
If a pipeline is closed simply due to a regulatory block, the only impediment to opening the valves is political.
But if a pipeline is destroyed, there is no need to worry about a change in Chancellor.
This relentless pursuit of monopoly control over Europe’s energy supply is the most clear demonstration of how Europe is being imperialized by the U.S.
Thus it is no coincidence that, in the absence of communist leadership, Europe is seeing a rise in fascist govts as a result.
Addendum: we’re going to have to wait for the investigation, but if you wanted to sabotage a new undersea pipeline while making it appear as an accident, one way to do it would be to trigger a very small submarine landslide.
Another possible pipeline sabotage technique with plausible deniability is the use of unexploded ordinance left over from WW2.
BREAKING: unconfirmed reports of pressure drops in ***BOTH*** Nord Stream lines (1 and 2)
CONFIRMED: massive leaks in both NS pipelines.
The only remaining intact gas pipelines connecting Russia with Western Europe run overland through Belarus and Ukraine.
berliner-zeitung.de/news/druckabfa…
I may have overestimated the saboteur’s desire to maintain plausible deniability:
Ok folks, we can stop speculating. The Official Scenarios™ have just been released:
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