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Pepe Escobar is always interesting and globally well connected.
1 posted on 09/28/2022 12:19:23 PM PDT by Cathi
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All that money Ukraine paid Big Guy through his son, and Brandon still stirs up Russia to be even harder on Ukraine.


2 posted on 09/28/2022 12:20:49 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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3 posted on 09/28/2022 12:24:07 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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Lots of information here, however no one has yet claimed responsibility so speculation runs rampant.


4 posted on 09/28/2022 12:27:35 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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It would be nice to know who is running our country, pushing us into WW3. Is that too much to ask?

It sure ain't Senile Joe.


5 posted on 09/28/2022 12:28:19 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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I just did a quick check of a very well-known liberal website. There is zero mention of this pipeline sabotage. Literally no one is talking about it. It’s as if the explosions never happened.

Very odd. You’d think someone would post about it, if only to somehow blame Trump.


10 posted on 09/28/2022 12:35:52 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Pepe Escobar is always interesting and globally well connected.

Could be, but he/she/it is such a horrible writer I gave up after the first paragraph.

13 posted on 09/28/2022 12:37:00 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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While I too fully suspect this was a US Deep State operation, I see this differently from how he sees it. He sees it as America reducing various European countries to the state of vassals and talks about the great economic harm being cut off from Russian energy will cause them.

I’d like to point out their utter dependence on Russian energy was always extremely naive, shortsighted and avoidable. The economic harm they will suffer is entirely their own fault for decades of very foolish political decisions. They never needed be so dependent on another country (Russia) that was always a competitor at best if not an adversary. They allowed idiotic Gaia Worship to guide their energy policy choices and took advice from an autistic Swedish teenage high school dropout when they could have kept open their nuclear power plants and built more, when they could have fracked their own oil and gas, when they could have mined their own coal, when they could have built LNG terminals and more storage capacity and secured long term contracts with other suppliers.

There was simply no thought given to security. Instead, they chose to freeload off of America for their security. They chose to let America run all the risks, pay all the bills, do whatever fighting was necessary, etc while they sat there doing business with the very country they demanded America provide them security against and while they arrogantly laughed when warned that they needed to make themselves more energy independent. The Germans for example refused to keep their word to provide a measly 2% of GDP for defense. They didn’t even come close to that in fact. They were hardly alone in that among European countries.

They’re not laughing now.


16 posted on 09/28/2022 12:38:19 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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There are state actors e.g. North Korea, Iran, Pakistan etc who could pull something like this off. Launch a submersible drone with explosives from a third party flagged freighter for example. The NATO theory is one of many. Proof is needed at this point before WW3 erupts.


18 posted on 09/28/2022 12:44:27 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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You know to the dummy that think Russia blew up the pipe line...

the ONLY USE was for Russia to sell and sent gas to the west....

So if they wanted, Russia could have just said we’re no longer selling gas to the West

And then destroyed all the pipeline on their land out to the International waters

And do it very publicly...

As No one could say a word

it’s their land

it’s their gas

and they don’t want to sell it

This was done by someone other than Russia

That didn’t want Russia to have the ability to sell gas to Europe


19 posted on 09/28/2022 12:46:02 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat90000)
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Good analysis!

“So that brings us to the key question of which Western intel apparatus designed the sabotage. 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.”

Yup. And which two countries have been actively sabotaging peace talks between Russia and Ukraine since before the war started???

Yup. Same dudes. The US, us, is da bad guys in this one, methinks. And if so, it will backfire spectacularly.

Like everything else they do.

Rapidly approaching War Crimes here. Us.


39 posted on 09/28/2022 2:39:56 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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It’s time we just washed our hands of NATO and Europe. Let those idiots fend for themselves.


40 posted on 09/28/2022 2:40:27 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (In time of peace, prepare for war.)
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We had to destroy Europe in order to save it.


42 posted on 09/28/2022 2:54:59 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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This could knock parts of the EU back to the pre-industrial age.

Perhaps that was the plan all along. All part of the great reset.


44 posted on 09/28/2022 3:28:05 PM PDT by Boomer ( What's the difference between Nazi Germany in 1932 and the USA in 2022? 5k miles and 90 years.)
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Yet the EUrocracy in Brussels – which rules over nation-states – would not follow, because they have been dictated themselves by the Empire of Chaos, Lies and Plunder. A case can be made that this Euro-oligarchy should one day be tried for treason.

Odd wording...

52 posted on 09/28/2022 8:15:03 PM PDT by GOPJ (STOP "PROCESSING" ILLEGALS. Democrats will use processing as 'documentation' proof.)
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I don’t have to agree with Mr. Pepe but he always has something to ponder. He is the most pro-BRICs man around. I have seen his material at Unz.com. Pepe is 150% committed to the rise of the BRICs, and the decline of the US, Germany and UK. He always likes what Vlad and the CCP are doing to enlarge their spheres of power.


57 posted on 09/29/2022 9:30:22 AM PDT by dennisw
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62 posted on 09/29/2022 3:50:17 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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(The views expressed in this article are author's own and do not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)

SNORT.

66 posted on 09/30/2022 5:03:15 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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How old is Pepe these days? 112?

He alleges NATO did it, in collusion with Norway and Denmark (wow), and yet somehow all this NATO/Norway/Denmark espionage escaped the notice of Germany and the BND.


68 posted on 09/30/2022 6:35:59 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: Cathi

Great article.


73 posted on 10/01/2022 4:40:36 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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