In 2015, the annual routine underwater survey of the Nord Stream 1 pipelines came across a remote operated vehicle rigged with explosives right next to one of the lines in Swedish waters.
The umbilical cable had been cut. The drone’s national origin was never disclosed. 🧵
Back in June of this year, NATO conducted its annual BALTOPS military exercise in the Baltic Sea. This year’s exercises had significant focus on using US Navy unmanned underwater vehicles to clear sea mines.
Where did the US Navy conduct these UUV exercises?
Right next to the Danish island of Bornholm, the same island adjacent the massive ruptures in Nord Stream pipelines occurred yesterday.
Since these exercises in June, the British Royal Navy along with the US Navy’s Sixth Fleet has been training the Ukrainian military to use these same drones.
There, it runs into other finance capital doing the same. In order to avoid a race to the bottom, the competing owners of finance capital agree to a temporary truce and carve up the world into a patchwork of monopoly territories.
But eventually, this too runs its course and the more dominant owners of finance capital subsume the weaker territories until there is but one imperialist world system dominated by a single country.
This is why Lenin called imperialism “the highest stage of capitalism”
China’s eradication of ETIM terrorism within Xinjiang shifted the staging ground for western-backed destabilization of the BRI—the largest infrastructure project in history—to Central Asia.
Ignoring this context will have you cheering on the next color revolution.
These protests were then capitalized on by western-backed terrorist squads that went around beheading state security forces and demanding the current government be overthrown, a goal obedient western vassals like the UK were more than happy to help with.
It’s simple to reconcile once you stop seeing Ukraine as a smol bean fighting Big Bad Russia and start seeing it for what it is — a US-backed proxy used to:
1- destroy Russia and
2- sever Europe from Asia by forcing them into permanent reliance on the US for energy & defence.
The US is using tariffs to force Canada and Mexico into stopping alleged cross border flows of fentanyl.
One view is that this signals the US genuinely wants to protect its population from fentanyl.
But another is that the US wants to become the global supplier of fentanyl. 🧵
After the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001, Afghanistan’s poppy fields went from a minor portion of global opium production to supplying the vast majority of the world’s consumption.
When the US finally left in mid 2021 and the Taliban retook control, opium production plummeted.
But while opium requires copious labor and vast fields of poppies to generate a significant yield, enough synthetic opioids to supply entire countries can be produced in a single lab by a few chemists.
It’d be hard to imagine a better drug for raising dark money.