Essay: Nordsteam pipelines being sabotaged and Putin failing to play politics several moves ahead on the politics chess board

Donald Trump warned the Germans not to be too reliant on Russian gas, but they literally and publicly smirked at him.^[1]

According to Kingpin Chess Magazine, there is no evidence that Vladimir Putin plays chess (See: Vladimir Putin Doesn’t Play Chess). According to a popular chess forum, chess Grandmaster Gary Kasparov stated that "Putin isn't a chess player either in actuality nor by character."^[2] See: There is no evidence that Vladimir Putin plays chess and Chessmaster Gary Kasparov on Vladimir Putin.

Prior to the Nordstream gas pipelines sabotage via underwater bombings (Both Nordstream 1 and Nordstream 2 were sabotaged), there were many instances of conflicts/disagreements between Russia and Ukraine/USA. Ukraine is a cleft country and cleft countries are often powderkegs when it comes to geopolitical conflicts.

The Ukrainians and/or the USA sabotaged the Nordstream gas pipelines (See: Mark Bowden, author of Blackhawk Down, has produced the most impressive investigation of the Nordstream bombing yet and 2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage and How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline by SEYMOUR HERSH).

Nord Stream 2, an underwater gas pipeline, was developed and is operated by Nord Stream 2 AG, a subsidiary of the Russian state energy company Gazprom headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. Construction of the $11 billion Nord Stream 2 was completed in September 2021.^[3]

China is now a buyer of a significant amount of Russian oil and gas due to the Europeans sanctioning Russian oil and gas. When Putin chose to launch his special military operation in February in 2022 relative to Ukraine, Vladimir Putin certainly should have predicted China's growing economic problems and that an anti-Russian politician with low ethics such as Joe Biden would give the green light to sabotage the Nordstream gas pipelines given that they helped fund Russia's war effort (Even though it was also used to provide the Germans cheap Russian gas. And keep in mind that the Germans have not given their promised 2% of their GNP to fund their military which NATO members promise to do.). And now, Russia will be facing significant upcoming economic problems given China's significant and growing economic problems (See: Russia's economy and gas and oil profits will be BADLY damaged when China's economy declines). On top of this, the war in Ukraine is making Russia's demographic crisis worse (See: Russia is dying out. The war in Ukraine is making Russia's demographic crisis even worse).

Putin, like a good chess player who thinks several chess moves ahead, should have predicted that the Ukrainians and/or Joe Biden would play realpolitik hardball given the prevalence and history of hardball politics in Russia. The Germans could have predicted this as well given that Ukraine is a cleft county powderkeg and that a German coined the concept of realpolitik. Germany should have been more like France and developed more nuclear power capabilities, but instead the German Green Party has had undue influence on German politics.

An additional point, "According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, new natural gas-fired plants come with a levelized cost of $48 per MWh compared to existing nuclear's cost of $33.50 per MWh."^[4]

Donald Trump warned the Germans not to be too reliant on Russian gas, but they literally and publicly smirked at him.^[5]

Former Polish Foreign and Defense Minister and Member of the EU Parliament thanked the United States for the Biden regime's environmental terrorism and Act of War against Russia and the German people.^[6]

German protest against Russian sanctions and for opening the Nord Stream pipeline on the morning before the U.S. environmental terrorist attack on the pipeline.^[7]