Nord Stream Pipelines Sabotage: Probe Update, Russia Assigns Blame
Nord Stream Pipelines Sabotage: Probe Update, Russia Assigns Blame
Western media is Ukraine's key propaganda machine
Isn’t it interesting how quickly the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines can completely vanish from any Western reporting?
Background: As The Trends Journal reported, in late September, explosives were detonated in a sabotage attack targeting the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines.
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Who did it? As usual, the U.S. blamed Russia and European allies, like Poland, saw the attack as a new phase in the war. Radosław Tomasz "Radek" Sikorski, the European Parliament member and former Polish foreign minister who is married to Russia hawk Anne Applebaum, tweeted a photo of the scene, “Thank you, USA.
Note to Readers: Ukraine is winning the propaganda war in the West against Russia because politicians in Washington do not question any statements from Kyiv. Politicians know that the war is unpopular in the U.S. because Americans do not want to fight over Ukraine, nor do they want to engage in nuclear war with Russia over one of the most corrupt countries on Earth.
What Russia Says: The Kremlin has denied any involvement in the explosions, and now blames the British navy for the attacks.
“According to available information, representatives of this unit of the British Navy took part in the planning, provision and implementation of a terrorist attack in the Baltic Sea on 26 September this year – blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines,” the Kremlin said, according to Energy Voice.
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said, Russian intelligence has data indicating that British military specialists were directing and coordinating the attack.
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“There is evidence that Britain is involved in sabotage, in a terrorist attack on vital energy infrastructure, not just Russian, but international,” he said.
The UK responded: “To detract from their disastrous handling of the illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defence is resorting to peddling false claims of an epic scale. This invented story, says more about arguments going on inside the Russian government than it does about the West.”
The Investigation: Earlier this month, investigators from the Swiss-based operator of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline said they completed the first leg of an investigation and found “technogenic craters” at the site.
“According to preliminary results of the damage site inspection, technogenic craters with a depth of 3 - 5 m were found on the seabed at a distance of about 248 m from each other,” the report said.
No one claimed responsibility and the investigation is ongoing.
TRENDPOST: Officials in Washington have been vocal in their threats that if Russia invaded Ukraine, the Nord Stream 2 project would end. Victoria “fuck the EU” Nuland, who is the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, said in a recently emerged video that “one way or another, Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.”
The Jewish Policy Center noted that the pipelines are up to 360 feet below sea level and would require submersible vehicles. Ukraine blamed the Russians. The report noted that Ukraine would stand to benefit from a damaged pipeline because it would damage Russia economically.
“The fact that this would deprive Europe against deliveries in the near future, supposing an end of sanctions, makes this an unlikely move for any country that depends on NATO for security,” the report said.
The article floated the idea that the U.S. has at least some incentive to damage the pipelines to prevent European countries from wavering in the Russian energy sanctions in the cold winter months. But that would be a potentially disastrous public relations imbroglio for Washington.