What exactly happened, and who benefits from blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines? Pepe Escobar is one of the best (and last remaining) foreign correspondents in existence, and believes that he knows some of the answers to who is behind the deliberate sabotage of the Russian gas link.
What is Nord Stream?
Simply put,
Nord Stream is a pair of offshore natural gas pipelines in Europe that runs under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany.
In other words, it’s a critical source of European gas, supplied by Russia (since Russia has a lot of gas). The problem, however, is that the West absolutely hates Russia, and wants Vladimir Putin removed from office, as Kent University’s Professor Of Russian And European Politics, Richard Sakwa, explained to me.
Ryan McMaken wrote a great corroborating piece, for the Mises, Institute in which he came in from a cultural angle.
At least one of the pipelines were blown up a few days ago, and nobody knows why or by whom.
Who is behind the sabotage?
Pepe has a few working hypotheses, the most persuasive being the following.
Prime candidates are of course CIA and MI6 – with Poland set up as the fall guy and Denmark playing a very dodgy part: it’s impossible that Copenhagen was not at least “briefed” on the intel.
Unz Review, October 2022
The CIA were involved in a conspiracy?
Imagine my shock.
He then continues with an idea even more revealing.
The hypothesis focuses on the Polish Navy and Special Forces as the physical perpetrators (quite plausible; the report offers very good internal details), American planning and technical support (extra plausible), and aid by the Danish and Swedish militaries (inevitable, considering this was very close to their territorial waters, even if it took place in international waters).
Unz Review, October 2022
Although, as he said to me in the following conversation, he believes that the White House was cleverly circumvented by actors within central intelligence.
