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The '''Nord Stream II''' pipeline is a joint [[Russia]]-[[German]] project to build a gas pipeline directly between Russia and Germany beneath the [[Baltic Sea]] to avoid disruption of service in the event that Russia cuts off gas supplies to [[Ukraine]].  It was begun in response to the [[Magnitsky Act]] sanctions after the [[Annexation of Crimea]] in 2014.  The project is being built by [[Gazprom]].
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The '''Nord Stream II''' pipeline is a joint [[Russia]]-[[German]] project to build a gas pipeline directly between Russia and Germany beneath the [[Baltic Sea]] to avoid disruption of service in the event that Russia cuts off gas supplies to [[Ukraine]].  It was begun in response to the [[Magnitsky Act]] sanctions after the [[Crimean Annexation]] in 2014.  The project is being built by [[Gazprom]].
  
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On February 22, 2022, [[Germany]] halted approval of this pipeline, as retaliation for troop movements by [[Russia]] concerning [[Ukraine]].<ref>https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/22/germany-halts-certification-of-nord-stream-2-amid-russia-ukraine-crisis.html</ref>  Energy prices in [[Europe]] skyrocketed tenfold between 2021 and 2022, and are expected to rise even higher with the political delay of approval of this pipeline.  To appease [[Leftist]] [[environmentalists]], Germany dismantled all 17 of its [[nuclear power]] plants, despite being [[carbon]]-free clean energy.
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[[Dmitry Medvedev]], the former Russian president for one term (2008-2012) while Putin was barred by term limits, tweeted in response to [[Germany]]'s decision to suspend this pipeline:
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{{cquote|German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has issued an order to halt the process of certifying the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Well. Welcome to the brave new world where Europeans are very soon going to pay €2.000 for 1.000 cubic meters of natural gas!<ref>https://twitter.com/medvedevrussia/status/1496112456858574849</ref>}}
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€2,000 per 1,000 cubic meters is equal to $65 per thousand cubic feet, which is about 10 times the wholesale cost of gas in the [[Midwest]] (where prices have already risen sharply this winter).
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On February 7, 2022, seventeen days before the Russian [[special military operation]] in Ukraine commenced, Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, wrote:
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{{quotebox-float|"The only way left for U.S. diplomats to block European purchases [of Russian gas] is to goad Russia into a military response and then claim that avenging this response outweighs any purely national economic interest. As hawkish Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, [[Victoria Nuland]], explained in a State Department press briefing on January 27 [2022]: “If Russia invades Ukraine one way or another [[Nord Stream 2]] will not move forward.” The problem is to create a suitably offensive incident and depict Russia as the aggressor.<ref>https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/michael-hudson-americas-real-adversaries-are-its-european-and-other-allies.html</ref>}}
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==Donbas war==
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{{See also|Donbas war}}
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Michael Whitney writing in UNZ wrote:<ref>https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-crisis-in-ukraine-is-not-about-ukraine-its-about-germany/</ref>
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{{Quotebox-float|"The [[Ukrainian crisis]] has nothing to do with Ukraine. It’s about Germany and, in particular, a pipeline that connects Germany to Russia called Nord Stream 2. [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] sees the pipeline as a threat to its primacy in Europe and has tried to sabotage the project at every turn. Even so, Nord Stream has pushed ahead and is now fully-operational and ready-to-go. Once German regulators provide the final certification, the gas deliveries will begin. German homeowners and businesses will have a reliable source of clean and inexpensive energy while Russia will see a significant boost to their gas revenues. It’s a win-win situation for both parties.
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The US Foreign Policy establishment is not happy about these developments. They don’t want Germany to become more dependent on Russian gas because commerce builds trust and trust leads to the expansion of trade. As relations grow warmer, more trade barriers are lifted, regulations are eased, travel and tourism increase, and a new security architecture evolves. In a world where Germany and Russia are friends and trading partners, there is no need for US military bases, no need for expensive US-made weapons and [[missile]] systems, and no need for [[NATO]]. There’s also no need to transact energy deals in US Dollars or to stockpile US Treasuries to balance accounts. Transactions between business partners can be conducted in their own currencies which is bound to precipitate a sharp decline in the value of the dollar and a dramatic shift in economic power. This is why the [[Biden administration]] opposes Nord Stream. It’s not just a pipeline, it’s a window into the future; a future in which Europe and [[Asia]] are drawn closer together into a massive free trade zone that increases their mutual power and prosperity while leaving the US on the outside looking in. Warmer relations between Germany and Russia signal an end to the “[[unipolar]]” world order the US has overseen for the last 75 years. A German-Russo alliance threatens to hasten the decline of the [[Superpower]] that is presently inching closer to the abyss. This is why Washington is determined to do everything it can to sabotage Nord Stream and keep Germany within its orbit. It’s a matter of survival.}}
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Pepe Escobar followed up:<ref>https://thesaker.is/empire-of-bioweapon-lies/</ref>
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{{quotebox-float|"We should always remember that the ultimate goal in the U.S. plan of training Ukrainians for war since 2014 was to alienate Germany from Russia – as Germany de facto controls Euroland economically.
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Imperial control of the oceans allows the Empire to strangle Germany at will into subservience by cutting them off from Russian energy – as the [[British]] did to Germany in [[WWII]] when Britannia ruled the waves. The [[Wehrmacht]] could not supply their mechanized army with fuel. Now, in theory, Germany and the [[EU]] will have to look to the seas – and total U.S. dependency – for their natural resources.
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The remote-controlled [[Maidan regime|Kiev regime]] dominated by [[SBU]] fanatics and [[Azov Battalion|Azov neo-Nazis]] is making it even harder – by shutting off all natural gas from Russia through Ukraine into [[Europe]], reducing the flow by more than one third.
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That translates as U.S.-enforced [[blackmail]] to force the EU to increase the Ukro-weaponizing against Russia. The practical consequences for Germany and the EU will be dire – in terms of shut down industries and cost of home heating and electrical power."}}
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==Biden regime==
 
From the White House press briefing room podium, [[Biden junta]] chief [[propagandist]] [[Jen Psaki]] defended the Trump era sanctions against the Nord Stream II pipeline in February 2021, noting that any new pipeline carrying [[fossil fuel]] from Russia to Germany “goes against [[Europe]]’s own stated energy and security goals.”<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/02/16/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-february-16-2021/</ref>  The pipeline is a massive scandal in Germany, with former [[Democratic Socialist]] chancellor [[Gerhard Schroeder]] on the board of the Nord Stream pipeline company and a major stockholder.<ref>https://www.politico.eu/article/opinion-schroders-russian-sell-out/</ref>   
 
From the White House press briefing room podium, [[Biden junta]] chief [[propagandist]] [[Jen Psaki]] defended the Trump era sanctions against the Nord Stream II pipeline in February 2021, noting that any new pipeline carrying [[fossil fuel]] from Russia to Germany “goes against [[Europe]]’s own stated energy and security goals.”<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/02/16/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-february-16-2021/</ref>  The pipeline is a massive scandal in Germany, with former [[Democratic Socialist]] chancellor [[Gerhard Schroeder]] on the board of the Nord Stream pipeline company and a major stockholder.<ref>https://www.politico.eu/article/opinion-schroders-russian-sell-out/</ref>   
  
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In May 2021 [[Joe Biden]] waived sanctions against the project and its CEO, Matthias Warnig,<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/18/biden-sanctions-nord-stream-pipeline-489437</ref> a former [[East German]] [[Stasi]] agent who partnered with the [[KGB]] while[[Vladimir Putin]] served in [[Berlin]] in the 1980s.<ref>https://www.dw.com/en/who-is-nord-streams-matthias-warnig-putins-friend-from-east-germany/a-56328159</ref>  The waivers were issued only one week after a cyberattack emanating from Russia shut down the Colonial Pipeline, resulting in shortages and gas lines in the eastern United States—for which Biden absolved Putin before an investigation started.<ref>https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/05/20/what-we-know-about-darkside-the-russian-hacker-group-that-just-wrecked-havoc-on-the-east-coast/</ref>  The reversal of Trump-era policies made Biden appear to be a Putin puppet.<ref>https://dennismichaellynch.com/daily-newsletter/</ref>  CDMedia reported,
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In May 2021 [[Joe Biden]] waived sanctions against the project and its CEO, Matthias Warnig,<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/18/biden-sanctions-nord-stream-pipeline-489437</ref> a former [[East German]] [[Stasi]] agent who partnered with the [[KGB]] while[[Vladimir Putin]] served in [[Dresden]] in the 1980s.<ref>https://www.dw.com/en/who-is-nord-streams-matthias-warnig-putins-friend-from-east-germany/a-56328159</ref>  The waivers were issued only one week after a cyberattack emanating from Russia shut down the Colonial Pipeline, resulting in shortages and gas lines in the eastern United States—for which Biden absolved Putin before an investigation started.<ref>https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/05/20/what-we-know-about-darkside-the-russian-hacker-group-that-just-wrecked-havoc-on-the-east-coast/</ref>  The reversal of Trump-era policies made Biden appear to be a Putin puppet.<ref>https://dennismichaellynch.com/daily-newsletter/</ref>  CDMedia reported,
 
{{quotebox-float|"CDMedia wrote in the summer before the 2020 election about Joe Biden, and his energy and gas genius son [[Hunter Biden|Hunter]], meeting with Russian gas executives in the United States, weeks after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, and Obama/Biden were crowing in the news about how America needs to ‘get tough on Russia’....The ‘tough on Russia’ thing is a hoax. Biden just ensured billions of hydrocarbon revenue for the [[Kremlin]]. He just weakened the [[NATO]] alliance."<ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2021/05/20/biden-is-not-tough-on-russia-quite-the-opposite/</ref>}}
 
{{quotebox-float|"CDMedia wrote in the summer before the 2020 election about Joe Biden, and his energy and gas genius son [[Hunter Biden|Hunter]], meeting with Russian gas executives in the United States, weeks after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, and Obama/Biden were crowing in the news about how America needs to ‘get tough on Russia’....The ‘tough on Russia’ thing is a hoax. Biden just ensured billions of hydrocarbon revenue for the [[Kremlin]]. He just weakened the [[NATO]] alliance."<ref>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2021/05/20/biden-is-not-tough-on-russia-quite-the-opposite/</ref>}}
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The pipeline directly undercuts Germany's efforts to meet [[Paris Climate Agreement]] targets.  
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The pipeline directly undercuts Germany's efforts to meet [[Paris Climate Agreement]] targets. The pipeline is intended to bail out Germany’s failed energy policies that first tilted [[left]] toward [[Green energy]], and when it failed, Germany went back to high polluting [[coal]].  European countries opposed it because they don’t want Russia to impose hegemonic influence.  [[French]] President [[Emmanuel Macron]] repeatedly publicly told Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]] that he opposed it.  Ukrainian [[President Volodymyr Zelensky]] accused the Biden junta of handing Putin a "weapon,"
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{{quotebox|"This is a weapon, a real weapon … in the hands of the [[Russian Federation]].  It is not very understandable … that the bullets to this weapon can possibly be provided by such a great country as the [[United States]].  How many Ukrainian lives does the relationship between the United States and Germany cost?"<ref>https://www.axios.com/zelensky-biden-ukraine-russia-nord-stream-pipeline-fe50756b-6b82-43f0-b390-734ea3e95de0.html</ref>}}
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Revision as of 07:20, May 24, 2022

The Nord Stream II pipeline is a joint Russia-German project to build a gas pipeline directly between Russia and Germany beneath the Baltic Sea to avoid disruption of service in the event that Russia cuts off gas supplies to Ukraine. It was begun in response to the Magnitsky Act sanctions after the Crimean Annexation in 2014. The project is being built by Gazprom.

On February 22, 2022, Germany halted approval of this pipeline, as retaliation for troop movements by Russia concerning Ukraine.[1] Energy prices in Europe skyrocketed tenfold between 2021 and 2022, and are expected to rise even higher with the political delay of approval of this pipeline. To appease Leftist environmentalists, Germany dismantled all 17 of its nuclear power plants, despite being carbon-free clean energy.

Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president for one term (2008-2012) while Putin was barred by term limits, tweeted in response to Germany's decision to suspend this pipeline:

“ German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has issued an order to halt the process of certifying the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. Well. Welcome to the brave new world where Europeans are very soon going to pay €2.000 for 1.000 cubic meters of natural gas![2] ”

€2,000 per 1,000 cubic meters is equal to $65 per thousand cubic feet, which is about 10 times the wholesale cost of gas in the Midwest (where prices have already risen sharply this winter).

On February 7, 2022, seventeen days before the Russian special military operation in Ukraine commenced, Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, wrote:

"The only way left for U.S. diplomats to block European purchases [of Russian gas] is to goad Russia into a military response and then claim that avenging this response outweighs any purely national economic interest. As hawkish Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, explained in a State Department press briefing on January 27 [2022]: “If Russia invades Ukraine one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.” The problem is to create a suitably offensive incident and depict Russia as the aggressor.[3]

Donbas war

See also: Donbas war

Michael Whitney writing in UNZ wrote:[4]

"The Ukrainian crisis has nothing to do with Ukraine. It’s about Germany and, in particular, a pipeline that connects Germany to Russia called Nord Stream 2. Washington sees the pipeline as a threat to its primacy in Europe and has tried to sabotage the project at every turn. Even so, Nord Stream has pushed ahead and is now fully-operational and ready-to-go. Once German regulators provide the final certification, the gas deliveries will begin. German homeowners and businesses will have a reliable source of clean and inexpensive energy while Russia will see a significant boost to their gas revenues. It’s a win-win situation for both parties.

The US Foreign Policy establishment is not happy about these developments. They don’t want Germany to become more dependent on Russian gas because commerce builds trust and trust leads to the expansion of trade. As relations grow warmer, more trade barriers are lifted, regulations are eased, travel and tourism increase, and a new security architecture evolves. In a world where Germany and Russia are friends and trading partners, there is no need for US military bases, no need for expensive US-made weapons and missile systems, and no need for NATO. There’s also no need to transact energy deals in US Dollars or to stockpile US Treasuries to balance accounts. Transactions between business partners can be conducted in their own currencies which is bound to precipitate a sharp decline in the value of the dollar and a dramatic shift in economic power. This is why the Biden administration opposes Nord Stream. It’s not just a pipeline, it’s a window into the future; a future in which Europe and Asia are drawn closer together into a massive free trade zone that increases their mutual power and prosperity while leaving the US on the outside looking in. Warmer relations between Germany and Russia signal an end to the “unipolar” world order the US has overseen for the last 75 years. A German-Russo alliance threatens to hasten the decline of the Superpower that is presently inching closer to the abyss. This is why Washington is determined to do everything it can to sabotage Nord Stream and keep Germany within its orbit. It’s a matter of survival.

Pepe Escobar followed up:[5]

"We should always remember that the ultimate goal in the U.S. plan of training Ukrainians for war since 2014 was to alienate Germany from Russia – as Germany de facto controls Euroland economically.

Imperial control of the oceans allows the Empire to strangle Germany at will into subservience by cutting them off from Russian energy – as the British did to Germany in WWII when Britannia ruled the waves. The Wehrmacht could not supply their mechanized army with fuel. Now, in theory, Germany and the EU will have to look to the seas – and total U.S. dependency – for their natural resources.

The remote-controlled Kiev regime dominated by SBU fanatics and Azov neo-Nazis is making it even harder – by shutting off all natural gas from Russia through Ukraine into Europe, reducing the flow by more than one third.

That translates as U.S.-enforced blackmail to force the EU to increase the Ukro-weaponizing against Russia. The practical consequences for Germany and the EU will be dire – in terms of shut down industries and cost of home heating and electrical power."

Biden regime

From the White House press briefing room podium, Biden junta chief propagandist Jen Psaki defended the Trump era sanctions against the Nord Stream II pipeline in February 2021, noting that any new pipeline carrying fossil fuel from Russia to Germany “goes against Europe’s own stated energy and security goals.”[6] The pipeline is a massive scandal in Germany, with former Democratic Socialist chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on the board of the Nord Stream pipeline company and a major stockholder.[7]

In May 2021 Joe Biden waived sanctions against the project and its CEO, Matthias Warnig,[8] a former East German Stasi agent who partnered with the KGB whileVladimir Putin served in Dresden in the 1980s.[9] The waivers were issued only one week after a cyberattack emanating from Russia shut down the Colonial Pipeline, resulting in shortages and gas lines in the eastern United States—for which Biden absolved Putin before an investigation started.[10] The reversal of Trump-era policies made Biden appear to be a Putin puppet.[11] CDMedia reported,

"CDMedia wrote in the summer before the 2020 election about Joe Biden, and his energy and gas genius son Hunter, meeting with Russian gas executives in the United States, weeks after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, and Obama/Biden were crowing in the news about how America needs to ‘get tough on Russia’....The ‘tough on Russia’ thing is a hoax. Biden just ensured billions of hydrocarbon revenue for the Kremlin. He just weakened the NATO alliance."[12]

The pipeline directly undercuts Germany's efforts to meet Paris Climate Agreement targets. The pipeline is intended to bail out Germany’s failed energy policies that first tilted left toward Green energy, and when it failed, Germany went back to high polluting coal. European countries opposed it because they don’t want Russia to impose hegemonic influence. French President Emmanuel Macron repeatedly publicly told Chancellor Angela Merkel that he opposed it. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Biden junta of handing Putin a "weapon,"

"This is a weapon, a real weapon … in the hands of the Russian Federation. It is not very understandable … that the bullets to this weapon can possibly be provided by such a great country as the United States. How many Ukrainian lives does the relationship between the United States and Germany cost?"[13]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/22/germany-halts-certification-of-nord-stream-2-amid-russia-ukraine-crisis.html
  2. ↑ https://twitter.com/medvedevrussia/status/1496112456858574849
  3. ↑ https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/michael-hudson-americas-real-adversaries-are-its-european-and-other-allies.html
  4. ↑ https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/the-crisis-in-ukraine-is-not-about-ukraine-its-about-germany/
  5. ↑ https://thesaker.is/empire-of-bioweapon-lies/
  6. ↑ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/02/16/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-february-16-2021/
  7. ↑ https://www.politico.eu/article/opinion-schroders-russian-sell-out/
  8. ↑ https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/18/biden-sanctions-nord-stream-pipeline-489437
  9. ↑ https://www.dw.com/en/who-is-nord-streams-matthias-warnig-putins-friend-from-east-germany/a-56328159
  10. ↑ https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/05/20/what-we-know-about-darkside-the-russian-hacker-group-that-just-wrecked-havoc-on-the-east-coast/
  11. ↑ https://dennismichaellynch.com/daily-newsletter/
  12. ↑ https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2021/05/20/biden-is-not-tough-on-russia-quite-the-opposite/
  13. ↑ https://www.axios.com/zelensky-biden-ukraine-russia-nord-stream-pipeline-fe50756b-6b82-43f0-b390-734ea3e95de0.html
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