Posted on 09/30/2022 11:54:43 AM PDT by MNDude
Vladimir Putin's gamble on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which delivers gas from Russia to Western Europe, has backfired as Russia "is losing the energy war," analysts have told Newsweek.
Nord Stream 1 is the biggest pipeline transporting natural gas between Russia and Europe and stretches some 745 miles under the Baltic Sea from Vyborg, 80 miles northwest of St. Petersburg, to the northeastern coast of Germany.
Sabotage has been widely expected to be the cause of the leaks, and a British defense source told Sky News on Friday that underwater explosives were likely used. Russia has denied causing the damage.
Neither pipeline was in operation at the time, after Gazprom, the state-owned company that operates the pipeline, stopped running Nord Stream 1 on August 19, citing maintenance issues. In July, the pipeline had been shut down for annual repairs. The Nord Stream 2 project was scuppered by Western sanctions.
Simone Tagliapietra, senior fellow at Bruegel and energy professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and at The Johns Hopkins University - School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Europe, told Newsweek that it is too early to understand the entirety of the damage of the pipeline.
"In any case, the pipeline was already not sending – since August – any gas to Germany, and we all expected it would not be resumed anytime soon," Tagliapietra said.
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If Newsweek says it, I have to assume the opposite is true.
Newsweek is simultaneously running articles that celebrate the destruction of Nord Stream because it harms Putin, while running articles claiming Putin was the one that destroyed it.
Biden blew up Nord pipeline.
Insurance payout?
The culprits (whoever they were) blew the pipes so that the supply could never come back on. It was already off.
Not saying it was the Fourth Reich that did it, but it does make it easier for Globohomo to force the “great reset” onto Europe.
Next…Russia will nuke Moscow to REALLY TEACH THE WEST A LESSON!!
It is annoying that Freepers and Tucker are so damn short sighted. Think!
“Next…Russia will nuke Moscow to REALLY TEACH THE WEST A LESSON!!”
Sadly so accurate. The predictable response from USA would be “We will not stand by as these acts of violence against humanity take place. Russia will be punished for these outrageous acts of terror!”
Relentless gaslighting courtesy of Leftist media.
Over the past few years they have really fine-tuned the art of making people believe that two opposite things are simultaneously both true, and it's racist if you disagree.
“considering Russian Hackers brought down Colonial Pipeline in 2019”
That’s a funny way of spelling “CIA”
It’s “doublethink” straight out of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.”
Yup.
The anal-lusts said it was true.
FBI does not get involved in international matters. CIA, yes.
If Putin did it, his motive would have been the same as Cortes’, who burned his ships so his underlings could not abandon his cause.
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