Imagine if in response to Governor DeSantis sending migrant invaders to Martha’s Vineyard, the Biden administration blew up the Overseas Highway that connects the Florida Keys to the mainland. In response to Texas doing similar things, they knocked out part of the power grid in Texas. For good measure, they started a car bombing campaign against leading opponents of immigration. It may sound insane, but it is not too far from where we find ourselves.
Now, take it a step further and imagine that the major media outlets simply ignored these things entirely. You see clips on-line of the collapsed bridges in Florida, but you can find little about it in the news. They simply report that something happened and no one knows who did it. Maybe a few crackpots on these media platforms claim that DeSantis blew up the bridges as a false flag operation. Texas governor Greg Abbot is blowing up his power grid for the same reason.
This scenario is so ridiculous it would not pass muster with Hollywood studios as the basis for a political satire. Somehow, we have reached this moment. Last week, someone planted bombs near the Baltic Sea gas pipelines that bring natural gas from Russia to Europe. This caper required a great deal of coordination and technical skill, so it was not a group of kids. Everyone knows it was ordered by Washington and probably carried about by the American military.
If you head to the big America media platforms, this act of international terrorism that threatens the wellbeing of Europe is barely noticed. The New York Times is obsessing over some old video of Roger Stone and the hurricane. Presumably, they hope the storm wrecks Florida because they hate Florida. The Post has a below the fold story but they are gearing up to claim the terrorism is part of Putin’s dastardly plan to spread disinformation in the West.
Typically, the regime has a narrative ready to go when they pull a caper, but this time they have just been doing the self-satisfied grin. Radek Sikorski is a high ranking Polish politician who is married to Anne Applebaum. She is a member of the Trotsky cult run by Robert Kagan, the husband of Victoria Nuland, who is the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. She is running Ukraine policy. Sikorski tweeted this out moments after the attack.
The Europeans quickly announced that it was an act of terrorism but seem to be in shock as they have yet to follow the script that says to blame Russia. Maybe this level of humiliation is even too much for the Europeans. The absurdity of blaming Russia is so ridiculous that it is impossible to say aloud without laughing. The American navy has been operating in the area and we have video of Joe Biden making threats to destroy the pipelines back in February.
Where we are now is that Washington is ordering the destruction of key European infrastructure in order to make war on Russia. Given the nature of the people involved, you can be sure many of them stood to make money from the attack, but the primary motive was the war on Russia. The Europeans are already in dire straights over energy this winter. This terrorist act by Washington now means something like a Turnip Winter for a wide swath of Western Europe.
Put aside the practical issues. Washington is now openly sponsoring and probably carrying out terrorist acts in Europe. Some would claim that this is not new as Washington has spent a quarter century bombing the Middle East. That is a fair complaint, but it happened under the guise of war. They were bombing the other side’s stuff, not the infrastructure of Europe. Imagine if Washington blew up the Chunnel in response to 9/11 and we have a good comparison.
The Europeans are a broken and defeated people, but even they have to be wondering what they have gotten themselves into with this Ukraine debacle. They eagerly signed up to be a “partner” with Washington in this great adventure to save Ukraine from the icy clutches of the Russian bear. Now, their economies are in collapse, their people are facing a winter without heat, governments are collapsing and their partner in all of this is now bombing their infrastructure. Some partnership.
The fact that the American media has been told to ignore this suggests Washington realizes they have a problem. It is hard to portray yourself as the good guy when you are bombing critical assets of your partners. This is one of those unforced errors that confirms the suspicions people have been voicing in private. In this case, it is that the real threat to peace in Europe is Washington, not Russia. The self-proclaimed defender of freedom is, in fact, its greatest threat.
This may be why the Biden White House signed off on this caper. It is an act of desperation aimed at keeping the Europeans in line. Germany now must hope Washington supplies enough LNG to make it through winter. That means the rest of Europe has to play ball with Washington, or face an economic collapse, as Germany is the economic engine of Europe. This act of terrorism was a warning to Europe that they better toe the line or else.
Regardless of the motivations, this feels like a game changer. It is too soon to know if it is an inflection point, but it could be the thing that changes minds. For Americans, it is one big piece of evidence that we are ruled by lawless tyrants. They will do anything to hold power, even commit acts of terrorism. For Europe, it could be the moment when they see the folly of their submission to Washington. For the world, it is more proof that Washington is the great threat to peace in the world.
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What if the whitehouse didn’t sign off on the attack?
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What we know from when Trump signed off on the murder of Qasem Soleimani is they still employ the President as cover. They wanted to murder Qasem Soleimani, so they gave Trump three options knowing he would pick the bold one. That way, they could point the finger at him when things got ugly. I would assume the same game is being played on Biden, which is probably easier to manipulate than Trump, given his brain damage. The evidence suggest this was in the works for a long time. Biden was boasting of it in February.
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The fact that the new Finland-Poland pipeline just opened reeks of a coordinated and long planned strike.
Poland and Ukraine stood to lose huge money in overland Russia to Poland pipeline transit fees with the Nordstream pipeline (underwater international waters = no fees). Which was the point.
Now the Fins are on the fast track to NATO Section 5 security protection. How convenient.
This has been in the works for months, if not years. The Ukraine dust up just provided cover.
As Henry Kissinger said, “it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal”…..
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Of all the events that one would assume to disrupt the world order, this one definitely feels like we are leading up to a world war. It’s all avoidable if we didn’t have insane and evil people doing their best intentionally or unintentionally to bring ruin to our world.
The future never looked worse for many countries and no election is going to fix this. It seems odd how many in normie world around me sound like preppers. Even they sense it though they can’t seem to formulate coherent thoughts on our current despotism.
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I wonder if World War is even possible. It was possible when there were two or three clear power centers and each had a sphere of influence with a homogenous population supporting it or fearful of it. Right now we’re seeing a splintering of allegiances even within the Liberal West, as more and more people distrust their regimes. Added to that is the decline of the West.
And added to that is the American regime’s fear of Russia or China. Despite the bluster, if we can’t beat Afghanis, Syrians, Iraqis or Iranians, and the regime doesn’t have the balls to formally declare war on Russia (instead they play cat and mouse in Ukraine) then how are they going to run a World War? And how are they going to justify it and get recruits and patriotic displays? I only see the media-addicted and the PMC bothering to care.
I think the US will just sulk off and become more and more cold-warish…it’ll form a bloc of like-minded regimes and they will trade amongst each other, associate only with themselves, under the great ideology of Liberal Democracy. Though this time it will not be God, guns, and General Electric. It’ll be backed by some kind of stupid progressive ideology.
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Nuland was making threats to Nord Stream back in January.
That indicates they had an op planned out and had possibly done a dry run that Nuland was briefed on.
Moon of Alabama has a good breakdown with technical details on the pipeline construction:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/whodunnit-facts-related-to-the-sabotage-attack-on-the-nord-stream-pipelines.html
Note his find in a 2015 edition of Pipeline Journal that the Swedes found and cleared an underwater drone with explosives in 2015, the tail end of the Obama regime.
But hey, nothing to see here folks. Go back to watching sportsball, gorging on wings,
dying from the jabs, and buying plastic Halloween crap at Lowes.6
If you already bought your Halloween crap, my Lowes also has all sorts of Christmas crap up for sale.
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This situation is lunacy. Maybe the old hatreds of Germany are more prominent than I thought.
Thing is, I could hang out at my corner bar today and ask the folks in my lefty area of a big city about this. The responses would most likely be either that they hadn’t heard about it, or that Russia did it.
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It’s worse than that. Many of the people in charge behind the scenes have “recent” ancestral hatred of both Germany but also Russia, if one allows “recent” to mean two to four generations into the past.
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A few months ago, there was a NATO exercise right over the pipeline with UUVs (Unmanned Underwater Vehicles – drones).
https://seapowermagazine.org/baltops-22-a-perfect-opportunity-for-research-and-resting-new-technology/
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The U.S. blew up any plausible deniability with this caper. The only reasonable explanation is they just don’t care.
Can you imagine being Putin in this situation dealing with such a powerful and unhinged opponent. Like being in a boxing ring with Mike Tyson without a referee. He’s absurdly powerful and unstable, and even if you manage to get the upper hand he’ll bite your ear off.
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Say what you want about the Soviets at least they didn’t blow up allied economic infrastructure while blaming it on the USA.
As for Sikorski, he is associated with the “European” political camp, although through his wife, he is said to be on American leash.Suffice to say, his tweet made rounds in Russian media.
Nord Stream has been hailed as one of the biggest diplomatic failures of Poland so its destruction lifted some spirits here, especially that pipeline with Norway is ready.
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Funny part is, they’ve done this before:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/cold-war-hotted-up-when-sabotaged-soviet-pipeline-went-off-with-a-bang-20040228-gdifyv.html
“The US was trying to stop western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas, and there were also signs that the Russians were trying to steal Western technology. A KGB insider then gained access to Russian purchase orders and the CIA slipped the flawed software to the Russians.”
That being said, you can see the loss of expertise in forty years. From shipping bugged software covertly to just blowing it up in broad daylight.
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If, as it seems, the US is responsible for this event, it is an aggressive and desperate act the likes of which we’ve never seen before. This seems like the paranoid flailing of a falling empire, more than a just and concerted act of strength.
The only historical parallel I can think of is Norway in 1940 during the Phoney War period (before WW2 “proper” kicked off). Norway was a neutral country and was trading major resources/raw materials with Germany. England wanted them to stop trading; Norway refused. Germany, fearing English intervention, wanted a Norwegian alliance which she also refused. While England was preparing for an invasion within days Germany beat her to the punch.
Today Germany is something like Norway, and we are more akin to the English. Except we just attacked our own ally. Blocking Germany’s access to an essential resource will have an immediate impact on their economy and the well-being of their citizenry. This type of belligerence reeks of desperation.
Make no mistake about it, this is an act of war. Russia invested billions in these pipelines. Additionally, these pipelines were a diplomatic bargaining chip for Russia which we have just wiped off the table. This lowers the chance for bilateral negotiations, thus making more likely if not the expansion of this war than at the very least a prolonged continuation of it.
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England managed to coup Yugoslavia when they refused to be another bumper on the path of Third Reich. Every place with American Embassy should be considered in danger of a coup.
There are many American liaison officers assigned to various military units in Europe.
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At least we’ll have the consolation of knowing that, no matter what Vlad does in retaliation, the Totally Legit Joe regime will blame “domestic insurrectionists” and initiate a massive crackdown.
I’m not going to say “You’ll be welcomed as liberators, Vlad,” because that’s “defeatism” and soon enough they’ll be hanging people for it, Berlin 1945-style, but… how would the HR ladies put this? Some people might say that.
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It wouldn’t be surprising if German intelligence was participating in this operation. I don’t think the US is that reckless to pull this off without any cooperation with at least some groups within the German government. The Greens are powerful and a growing party within Germany, and they hate Russia and hydrocarbons equally.
Which makes this an even darker idea, the idea that European governments are sponsoring terrorism against their own nations. It’s shocking really, it seems a man needs an unlimited amount of cynicism in order to understand what is going on in the western world.
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It’s not at all surprising. Here is the list condominium trading zone we have the regime inciting their low IQ foot soldiers to kill normal white people. Nothing surprises me anymore. I’m far beyond cynical at this point. I’ve reached peak level hatred of this country.
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“Economic trading zone”. Damn spell check.
The US suddenly pulled out of Afghanistan without informing the other allies there. It would be no surprise if they behaved the same in this matter.
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Off topic, but I think Z blog readers will appreciate — a beautiful rendition of Kipling’s White Man’s Burden.
https://youtu.be/05vVnVETZmo
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I feel sorry for the team of Navy SEALs (or equivalent) who actually conducted the operation. Their life expectancies are very short. A “training accident” is likely in their collective future. It hay have happened already. There is precedent. I wonder if more of these elite personnel (and not-so-elite) will awaken to the fact that the true enemy may not be whom their handlers led them to believe. If portions of the military come to such a realization, it will be a time of both unprecedented danger for our nation(s) but also one of potential renewal.
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Paging Dr. Hillarycide.
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Those guys are so well-programmed they may be unable to accept the facr they are merely loose ends to be tied off.
Just like the team that got Osama and the team that rigged the WTC.
“Still got the shovel!”
https://youtu.be/mn60YWO218k
This is clearly an escalation, but it’s not a bolt from the blue. It’s pretty much accepted as fact that Russia was behind the explosions at the US refineries and LNG export facilities. This was the response.
During the Trump years, the fear of The Donald within government was that he was crazy and would lash out by going nuclear. So the establishment replaced him with people whose only experience is in making big threats and having the ‘opposition’ Conservatives back down to preserve the system.
The same tactic is now being used in an idiotic game of chicken, where each side is ‘escalating to de-escalate’, trying to prove how badass they are – with the difference being one side is expecting the other to turn away, and the other having spent the last 20 years armoring up for the crash.
We are stumbling toward major, open conflict led by a fool and his minions – Sleepwalkers By Christoper Clark comes to mind – but this attack on the continent should be seen for what it is: an over that top response to the more targeted attacks earlier this year.
book mentioned: https://www.amazon.com/Sleepwalkers-How-Europe-Went-1914/dp/0061146668).
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Trump going nuclear was never a real possibility. His Twitter activity was another thing, but not indicative of a mass murderer. Please stop with the revisionist hate. He wasn’t great, but he was not a blood thirsty mental patient.
The US government was never happy about the pipeline. The US destroying it was always on the cards. It’s part of a greater strategy to nix Eurasian integration and to keep Germany in line. The last thing the US wants is a Beijing-Moscow-Berlin axis. The war the US is waging (in all but name) against China and Russia is also being waged against its “ally” and vassal Germany. The ugly realities of US geopolitics. Most of the rest of the world has been exposed to this kind of US action for decades. But the European vassal states were spared. No longer.
This are still early days and I think it’s fair to say that these are merely the opening salvos in an emerging world war.
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Are you sure it was the Americans? Steve Sailer says that he doesn’t know who did it, and Greg Cochran says it was the Ukrainians.
Seriously, it’s sad to watch two smart guys completely collapse so publicly. I honestly don’t know what happened to Sailer over the past couple of years. Was he always such a tool and I just didn’t notice?
Regardless, the Europeans are officially a battered wife at this point. Wonder if they’ll ever have the guts to leave their abusive husband or if they’ll just keep making excuses hoping he won’t hit her again.
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More like an emasculated man who takes orders from a bitchy wife.
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It is remarkable. Cochran is the puzzle. He is a genuinely smart guy. Sailer is just Racist Rainman who got famous noticing a few things, but Cochran is a one percent IQ.
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ZMan ref to: Turnip Winter. The media spin cycle will turn this into Trump Winter since clearly it was ultra MAGA right wing terrorists who shot holes in the pipeline with illegal AR15’s. That, or it was climate change what done it.
In any event, the more big media ignores this – the more likely it is the lunatics who run the DC asylum were in charge of it.
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The US-led coup d’état of 2014 has led to a series of escalations. Now the ball is in Russia’s court. What will they do? Putin has promised that in case of a war with the West Russia would attack the Western countries home territories. That would include the continental US. Which implies the Alaskan Pipeline might be a target. Or the Norwegian pipeline to Poland. or the Trans-Atlantic cable.
On the other hand, this is so plainly an attack on Germany, that Russia’s best choice might be to do nothing, and to let the intra-EU disputes fester into some sort of existential crisis for the EU itself. German exit?
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It’s the same with that targeted assassination of that young lady a few months ago. On one hand, Russia wants to respond, but on the other hand their enemy is in the process of making many catastrophic mistakes and they hardly want to halt that.
“Everyone knows it was ordered by Washington and probably carried about by the American military.”
Incorrect. “Everyone” are idiots and they know very, very little. The TV, Google, Twitter and Facebook didn’t report on it, so it didn’t happen. I would be shocked if more than 1 out of 10 Americans could find Denmark or Sweden on a map.
What will be interesting is when another LNG import/ export terminal goes up in flames.
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