Berlin suspects the leak that caused Nord Stream to lose pressure may not be a coincidence FILE PHOTO: A painting showing the Nord Stream pipelines is displayed on a container near the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline in Lubmin, Germany, July 20, 2022 © AP / Markus Schreiber
While the loss of pressure in three natural gas pipelines between Russia and Germany is still officially being investigated, Berlin is reportedly no longer convinced it was a coincidence, and suspects a “targeted attack” on behalf of either Ukraine or Russia, the newspaper Tagesspiegel reported on Monday evening.
Pressure in one of the Nord Stream 2 lines dropped sharply overnight, followed by the same happening to both Nord Stream 1 pipes on Monday afternoon. Denmark announced that a gas leak was spotted off the coast of Bornholm island in the Baltic Sea and closed the area for maritime traffic, but could not confirm if this was what caused the pressure loss.
According to Tagesspiegel, the German government and agencies investigating the incident “can’t imagine a scenario that isn’t a targeted attack,” according to an anonymous source familiar with their assessments. “Everything speaks against a coincidence.”
The outlet explained that a deliberate attack on the bottom of the sea has to involve special forces, navy divers or a submarine. Berlin is reportedly examining two possible scenarios. In the first, Ukraine or “Ukraine-affiliated forces” could be behind the attack. The second option is that Russia did it as a “false flag,” to make Ukraine look bad and drive the EU energy prices even higher.
With Nord Stream offline since late August, Russian gas can only be delivered to Germany and central Europe via the older pipelines going through Poland and Ukraine, Tagesspiegel noted.
“We are in the process of clarifying the situation here,” a spokeswoman for the federal ministry of economics told the outlet. “We don’t currently know what caused the pressure drop.”
Nord Stream 1 was built in 2011. Construction on Nord Stream 2 began in 2018, and took much longer due to political pressure and economic sanctions from the US. NS2 was finished and pressurized by September 2021. However, two days prior to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, the German government put its certification on indefinite hold, and has categorically refused any suggestion from Moscow – or its own people – to unblock the pipeline. (RT)
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Surely the UK and USA have to be contenders too?
You mean MI-6 & the CIA, right?
“a ‘targeted attack’ on behalf of either Ukraine or Russia”
Can you still see me, over the whale in the room?
Oh wait, “Ukraine-affiliated forces” might also be involved, they say.
Who exactly could those be?
“I’ll see your 750 food processing plants and whatnot, and raise you one gas pipeline.”
Clearly you can’t have countries dropping out of NATO or turning towards the Nationalism, so you gotta do what you gotta do, amirite?
Nice gas pipelines you got there. Sure would be a shame if something were to happened to them.
It’s a message that Europe better hurry up and sign those 25 year LNG purchase contracts with American companies or winter gas supplies could get pretty unreliable over the long term should Germany come to terms with Russia.
And while we can attack your pipelines with impunity,
nobody will dare to attack our LNG tankers!
Naturally.
And Russia bombs their own prisons … and bombs their own nuclear plant and sinks its own ships ….. and cuts babies from Ukie wombs and roasts them over a campfire along with marshmallows.
Germany is an embarrassment to the world, and to herself.
Thank God I am of Hungarian heritage!
If you think it is ONLY, or even mostly, just the “Occupational Government of Germany” that is vile and full of shit, a sheep nation whoring for America …. then you are seriously deluded.
What? You think the majority of the German people are sweet angels, who love freedom and nice things like sauerbraten und knodel? Moar delusion.
German HERITAGE? No problem with that. Germany since a few years after WWII? Big problems with that.
Here ya go …. proof Germany is fucked beyond redemption.
Yup good old Ezra. Mentor to many including Hemmingway and Eustace Mullins. When he made the mistake of returning to the states the name stealers grabbed him and had him admitted or committed to an asylum as being crazy.
Here’s what the US message to Germany was: You want to leave? Now yous can’t leave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDAlifCmd8w
Makes the case that it had to be the Americans with the purpose of undermining Europe.
See Marc’s link to the Meat Puppet of the US explain US intent.
on the money…
I hope Admin will consider posting this, but am not opening email to suggest it.
Gonzalo is slightly wrong in some of his thoughts.
1. The current German government has a strong incentive to sabotage NS, as they insist to stick with the non-approval of the (finished but never used) Nordstream 2 pipeline, but the voices to open NS2 were slowly getting louder (and would have reached a crescendo around January).
2. Poland is also a strong contender for the villain role, they have been pissed about being circumvented by NS1 already, taking away pass-through fees from them. I don’t know if Poland has a submarine, but they are so close divers probably could do the job.
3. I wouldn’t rule out UK either.
None of those three have the balls to do it. Sorry, British readers. Don’t think so hard. It was the fucking Americans.
That would be part of the ‘plausible denial’.
All three have the means to plant explosives at the pipelines (obviously after getting US approval.)
But sure, the most likely by far are the Americans. Even before Flightradar maps became known.
I think HSF’s post is all that needs to be said.
You would think that as many times as Germany has been snakebit by the US and UK they would WTFU and hear the rattle shaking this time.