Pipeline Terror is the 9/11 of the Raging Twenties

Guest Post by Pepe Escobar

US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) (L) talks with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during a rally with fellow Democrats before voting on H.R. 1, or the People Act, on the East Steps of the US Capitol on March 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. (AFP photo)

There’s no question that future unbiased historians will rank Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address on the Return of the Baby Bears – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia – on September 30 as a landmark inflection point of the Raging Twenties.

The underlying honesty and clarity mirror his speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference, but this time largely transcending the trappings of the geopolitical New Great Game.

This was an address to the collective Global South. In a key passage, Putin remarked how “the world has entered a period of revolutionary transformations, which are fundamental in nature. New development centers are being formed, they represent the majority.”

As he made the direct connection between multipolarity and strengthening of sovereignty, he took it all the way to the emergence of a new anti-colonial movement, a turbocharged version of the Non-Aligned Movement of the 1960s:

“We have many like-minded people all over the world, including in Europe and the United States, and we feel and see their support. A liberating, anti-colonial movement against unipolar hegemony is already developing in various countries and societies. Its subjectivity will only grow. It is this force that will determine the future geopolitical reality.”

Yet the speech’s closure was all about transcendence – in a spiritual tone. The last full paragraph starts with “Behind these words stands a glorious spiritual choice”.

Post-post-modernism starts with this speech. It must be read with utmost care so its myriad implications may be grasped. And that’s exactly what tawdry Western spin and a basket of demeaning adjectives will never allow.

The speech is a concise road map to how we got to this incandescent historical crossroads – where, to venture beyond Gramsci, the old order refuses to acknowledge its death while the new one is inexorably being born.

There’s no turning back. The key consequence of a largely documented fact – “a hybrid war is being waged against Russia because it stands in the way of the neocolonial world order” – is that Russia is getting ready for an all-out collision with the Empire of Lies.

Alongside top Eurasian powers China and Iran. Imperial vassals in this case are at best collateral damage.

Moreover, it’s quite telling that Putin’s speech followed India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar, stressing the “pillaging of India by the colonial power” at the UN General Assembly.

Putin’s speech and Russia’s resolve to fight the – hybrid and otherwise – war against the collective West set up the Macro Picture.

The Micro Picture regards the see-saw in the battlefields in Ukraine, and even the blow-up of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines: a desperate gambit, a few days before the result of the referendums and their official recognition on September 30.

Where’s Osama when we need him?

As working hypotheses swirl on how the deed was done, a few things are quite clear.

Russia had absolutely no motive to destroy billions of dollars of Gazprom’s energy infrastructure: they could always use it as leverage; and they could just turn it off – as they did, because of the sanctions dementia – and re-route the gas to Asian customers.

A White House “led” by a senile teleprompter reader, mired in a black politico-economic void, was most certainly clueless.

The prime suspect is a rogue National Security/State Department faction – part of what is known in the Beltway as The Blob. Call them Straussians or neo-con fanatics, these are the players who are conducting a US foreign “policy” whose central premise is the destruction of Russia – with the European “allies” as collateral damage.

An inevitable – certainly unforeseen – consequence is that in this new twist in the War of Economic Corridors, all bets are off: no pipeline or undersea cable, anywhere in the world, is now safe and may become fair game in retaliation.

So the blow-up of the twin pipes – NS and NS2 – is 9/11 remixed Pipeline Terror. With no Islamist with a Kalashnikov hiding in an Afghan cave to take the fall.

Financial losses will involve quite a few weighty players. The shareholders of Nord Stream AG are Gazprom (51%); Wintershall Dea AG (15.5%); PEG Infrastruktur AG, a subsidiary of E.ON Beteiligungen (15.5%); N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie (9%) and Engie (9%).

So this is an attack not only against Russia and Germany but also against major European energy companies.

NS2 is an engineering marvel: over 200,000 pipe segments coated with 6” of concrete, each weighing 22 tons, laid out on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

And just when it seemed that all was lost, well, not really. The engineering marvel theme resurfaced: the pipes are so strong they were not broken, but merely punctured. Gazprom revealed there’s an intact string of NS2 that may “potentially” be used.

The bottom line is that reconstruction is possible, as Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak stressed: “There are technical possibilities to restore the infrastructure, it requires time and appropriate funds. I am sure that appropriate opportunities will be found.”

But first, Russia wants to conclusively identify the perpetrators.

Henry Kissinger, sore loser

US establishment oracle cum notorious war criminal, Henry Kissinger, could not get rid of his trademark Return of the Living Dead act, saying Russia has “already lost the war” because its capacity to threaten Europe with conventional attacks, which it had enjoyed for decades or even centuries, “has now been demonstrably overcome.”

Moscow was not “threatening” Europe with anything conventional or otherwise; it was trying to do business, and the Americans blocked it with a vengeance, even resorting to Pipeline Terror.

This American tactical victory was achieved in only seven months, and cost next to nothing. The results may seem impressive: US hegemony over the whole EU spectrum is now undisputed, as Russia lost its economic leverage. But that will only deepen Moscow’s resolve –as stressed by Putin’s speech – to take the fight against the Empire and its vassals to the limit.

On the Ukraine battlefields, that means forcing them to the negotiating table on Russia’s terms. And then force them to agree to a new European “indivisibility of security” arrangement.

And to think that all that could have been accomplished with a simple phone call in late 2021, when Moscow sent letters to Washington proposing a serious discussion.

In fact, it’s the US that has “already lost the war”: at least 87% of the world – including virtually the whole Global South – has already concluded this is a rogue, rudderless empire.

“Losing”, Kissinger-style, also means that in only 7 months, Russia annexed 120,000 km2 – or 22% of Ukrainian territory – that produces nearly 90% of GDP and has over 5 million citizens. Along the way, the allied forces basically destroyed the Ukrainian army, which they continue to do 24/7; billions of dollars of NATO equipment; accelerated the demise of most Western economies; and evaporated the notion of American hegemony.

As for Stupidistan Unplugged, the Oscar goes to Secretary Blinken, who gave away the game by saying the blow-up of the twin pipelines was a “tremendous strategic opportunity”.

Just like 9/11 was a “tremendous strategic opportunity” for indiscriminate invasion/bombing/killing/plunder across the lands of Islam.

Shock’n Awe is back

The EU is on the way to surefire Trade Devastation. From now on, any possibility of energy trade with Russia would have to be a consequence of the collapse of both NATO and the EU. That may happen, but it will take time. So what next?

The EU cannot rely on Asia: far away and impossibly expensive in terms of LNG liquefaction and re-gasification costs. Any pipeline – for instance, from Kazakhstan – would be crossing Russia or coming from China via Russia. Forget about Turkmenistan; it already ships its gas to China.

The EU cannot rely on West Asia. Turk Stream is fully booked. The whole production of the Persian Gulf is already bought. If – and that’s a major “if” – there was more gas available, it would be a small amount from Azerbaijan (and Russia might disrupt it). Iran remains sanctioned by the Empire – a fabulous own goal. Iraq and Syria are still plundered by the US.

That leaves Africa – where, as it stands, France is being unceremoniously kicked out, nation after nation. Italy may eventually pipe gas to German industry from Algeria, Libya and the Cyprus-Israel fields. There will be an absolutely mad scramble for Saharan gas fields and gas in central Africa – from Uganda to South Sudan.

The Baltic may be a NATO lake, but Russia could easily decide to make waves, for instance transporting LNG in barges to German ports via Kaliningrad – which is ice-free during winter. If Lithuania would try to block it, Mr. Khinzal could settle the issue by presenting his business card. Russia could also use the Gulf of Finland, not a problem for those massive Russian icebreakers.

This means Russia could easily destroy the competition – as in absurdly expensive LNG coming from the US. After all, St. Petersburg to Hamburg is only about 800 nautical miles; and from Kaliningrad, only 400 nautical miles.

The whole chessboard is about to be radically changed before the arrival of General Winter. 9/11 led to the bombing, invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Pipeline 9/11 is leading to a Shock’n Awe on NATO – to take place in Ukraine. Blowback is back – with a vengeance.

Pepe Escobar is a veteran journalist, author and independent geopolitical analyst focused on Eurasia.

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Anonymous

biden and his merry band of morons must get up every morning, look in the mirror and ask ,”what can I fu** up today”?

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Behind every one…

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hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

The only part I cannot figure out is who is behind this all. The string puller has power on a level that is inestimable and I am left believing that it isn’t human in nature.

I don’t know where that leaves us. I’m not sure I want to know.

Machinist
Machinist

I believe that I am in the same camp. Dug in and in wonder at the atrocious power plays that smack of evil itself. More than a few times, I have been left just shaking my head in wonderment that the resultant effects are supported and cheered on to their own detriment. From my perspective, as an outsider of those who cheer the insanity on, are dystopic.
That’s when I remember that Scripture says Satan is the father of lies and a deceiver and that he disguises himself as an “angel of light.” Those who follow him, human or otherwise, practice the same deceit.

Note from Nevada
Note from Nevada

The thought has crossed my mind, so much has gone so bizarre in such a short amount of time.
So what is behind this? I’m pretty open minded that we humans are totally missing what all I can describe as ‘Something’ we cannot comprehend. I have theories,as I’m a total skeptic as to what has been sold to us as our origins and the story of our history as we have been taught. I had a thorough advanced education in Natural Sciences, I no longer believe the theory of evolution and anyone who understands the structure of DNA cannot believe this all happened by chance , regardless of of how long of timeline.
Its very possible the mysteries that never seem to get solved is for a reason and is by intention.

PSBindy

Note from Nevada says: “I had a thorough advanced education in Natural Sciences, I no longer believe the theory of evolution and anyone who understands the structure of DNA cannot believe this all happened by chance , regardless of of how long of timeline.”

Right you are, Note. The evolutionists had to admit that the thirteen billion years since they say the universe poofed (pooped?) out of nothing, is sorely inadequate for non-living substance to accidentally, for no reason, without mindful (Godly) intent and design, generate a living, self replicating single cell.

They “solved” this impossibility by concocting the “multiverse theory.” It states there are an infinite number of universes and we just happen to exist in the lucky one. You can put a cat in a box to prove it. Somewhat.

When the sillyness of the multiverse become undeniable they will all become Deists, saying “In the beginning God said “Let there be let there be uh let there be something. And then he walked away.

Boogieman
Boogieman

The return of the gods, the Destroyers, Baal, Ishtar, and Molech? At the least, in spirit.

PSBindy

They’re real. They never left. They’re planning and hoping for a resistance that can be negotiated into allowing them an existence on Earth instead of Hell.

Fat chance.

Paleocon
Paleocon

Hmm.. Who could it be? Could it be Satan?

Boogieman
Boogieman
Red River D
Red River D

Farmer wrote:

“…The string puller has power on a level that is inestimable and I am left believing that it isn’t human in nature…”

Ha ha ha. Thinking like that is one of the BEST ways into the Bible, Farmer!!!

“…I don’t know where that leaves us…”

Yes you do. 1000 years is as a day. That’s the key to understanding the biblical and prophetic timeline. And once you do, and you read the Bible with that understanding…

…there can be no questions because the Bible comes alive in Ultra High Definition and then shows us plainly what’s happening on today’s world stage and why.

Once you see, you can’t unsee. And after that, all suggestions that the Bible is something other than the word of God Himself, become utterly laughable.

Mankind isn’t capable of putting together a gift like the Bible. Not by any metric.

“…I’m not sure I want to know…”

Stand on the inside looking out, and you’ll know you’ve done the right thing for the right reason. You have the right stuff for this thing. Don’t try to cross the finish line on your own.

And you can make your walk into the Scriptures as unique as your personal approach to this world. You don’t have to do it like any other man. It is not a religion. It is personal. And there is nothing else like it.

grace country pastor

Very well said!

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams

That was quite amazing.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

The Bible you say? Where would I find a copy and who was the author?

Yes, that was what I was alluding to, or perhaps something less- what’s the word?- supernatural?

There are certain parasites, for example, that compel their hosts to do things that expose them to great danger and even certain death. If people can believe in invisible viruses that float around in the air at the grocery store waiting to kill Grandma, maybe there are other unseen organisms or lifeforms that infect us to our disadvantage, like taxoplasma gondii. It might not be Satan personally.

Boogieman
Boogieman

Toxoplasma gondii, theoretically possible.

Boogieman
Boogieman

Could also be that evil thrives off negative energy. I learned that watching the original Ghost Busters movie.

Jerrys And Germans
Jerrys And Germans

Dude. Nice.

I picked it up from Raiders of the Lost Ark a few years earlier.

Or was it Caddyshack…

Good Times.

Pre-(full)Commie USA.

Pre-Star-Chamber-For-Everything.

Red River D
Red River D

“…It might not be Satan personally…”

Satan is impersonal. But if the Darkness could be singularly personified, it would be personified in the non-entity we know as Satan.

Don’t get me wrong. Satan is very real. But this non-entity is characterized by non-being, since Satan is the inverse of Being. Satan is the inverse of I AM. And each and every one of us has the Darkness within us. We know this darkness as the unconscious, characterized by voices and influences we are barely aware of, unless we make it our business to understand and monitor these things.

That’s why this world can never be saved by winning physical wars. Because too many do not understand that the Darkness abides within every single one of us. There is only one WAY through the Darkness. And you already know His name.

Machinist
Machinist

“Be ye sober, and wake ye, for your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion goeth about, seeking whom he shall devour.”

Marky
Marky

But this non-entity is characterized by non-being, since Satan is the inverse of Being. Satan is the inverse of I AM.

Fascinating perspective and well articulated. Did you get the premise of your idea from Rev 17:8?

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

Red River D
Red River D

I got the premise for the idea beginning in Genesis chapter 1.

We know who the Light is. We should also know who the Darkness is. Darkness is further personified in John chapter 1.

But most assuredly, the Beast that was and is not, is crucial to understanding the nature and identity of the Enemy of God.

The Abyss, the Darkness, and the Dragon are all emergent qualities of God’s creation. They are all devoid of being, per se, and yet they have gathered to themselves the rudiments of being by directly and indirectly influencing mankind through the unconscious.

I was led to study the occult for years in addition to the work of Carl Jung, who himself was a high priest of the Darkness. The bad guys spill all the beans, despite their being hopelessly deluded. But once their doctrine is cross referenced with the Bible, the story becomes crystal clear.

And this is why psychedelics, especially the more powerful hallucinogens, are gravely dangerous. The substances put a man directly in touch with the Darkness (often masquerading as light) and with the entities and pseudo-deities which dwell within it.

Some Doors of Perception are best left unopened.

Annoyingus
Annoyingus

Curious, why does God tolerate these evil entities. Just reading what you wrote they seem to be at odds with his creation. If it is a fact that God is all powerful, why does he allow these non beings ,per se, to exist and challenge his authority?

Red River D
Red River D

God allows things to be as they are because He is building something. We have a say in it (albeit in small part).

Consider it a test.

Because it is.

i forget
i forget

“It’s a feature, not a bug.”

“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!” is taken to the “literal” extremes of “the devil made me do it!” continuously.

Lotsa names for the never say dienamic. But it’s just people, passing hot potato bucks to whoever/wherever/whatever they believe (no thinking involved) they can.

And the bankers continue to plant & harvest taters.

Aintcha got a writ large representation/understanding of the mashed-amalgamted sour cream & chives atop human nature physiognomy, homey?

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

It’s just as likely beyond the limit of my ability to comprehend.

Boogieman
Boogieman

Me too

i forget
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Remember that one the Bee Gees did? Ch-ch-ch-chive talkin’?

Taters, talers, dollars, 30 pcs o’ silvery stuff, there’s gold in them thar piles of paper say-know-& do the paperhangin’ people aka “bankers” (plus all those they buy & pay for).

This is a world of illusion. Especially if taken at that greenback face value & let go at that … as so many do.

Better disillusion: this is a world of liars.

“Money” is the biggest Big Lie ever made manifest in the world. Liars lied it into existence. Liars can buy, are buying, anything & everything with it. Including mass acquiescence.

A purely “representational” materialism is all it takes to buy all the material world. The only devil in the deal is this detail: this species inability to admit how subject to specie it is.

But wait! The specie is specious!

Rewrite: this species inability to admit how subject to speciousness it is.

Nobody in a “power” slot got there w/o striving to get there. Without grooming. Without installation by the powers behind the slots. Without accepting the offer they never had any intention of refusing. Without being otherwise completely unqualified to “wield” (be the face of …”coulda been an actor, but I wound up here…”) the power slot. That goes for all sauce du jours, Puttanesca included.

And beneath those nobodys are the nobodys who sit there all life, putting life-exchanged-for-specious-specie into the slot-slot-slot & pull-pull-pulling the one-armed bandit-pud dreaming of a specious specie payoff.

Family of man is dysfunctional. The deus ex machina patsies it makes up to avoid responsibility, to pass the buck (“kick a buck” ~ Cool Hand Luke) is … feature, not bug.

Financial Jigsaw Part 2

A ‘Pathological liar’ is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can’t take anything they say at face value. And you can’t, you know, fill in their personality. You don’t know what’s real and what’s not. – Dale Archer

Why can’t “liar,” pathological or not, be taken @facevalue? Why can’t what the liar says be discounted into the ignore bin? Why can’t liar actions be given the first language credits due? What’s so hard about it, eyeballing that in-your-face personality?

Getting past the Mesmer training wheels o’ words is what’s so hard about it.

Taking representational symbols as real & real as merely symbolizing something hidden that must be uncovered so as to “fill in” the real is what’s so hard about it.

There’s addict emoluments all around for making “it” harder than it is. That’s why.

Anonymous
Anonymous

More importantly “Which Bible”? I have seen dozens of versions, many contradictory to each other. Yet every owner says theirs is the “true word”.

The arrogance of “mine is correct” when there are dozens of others with people just as sure theirs is correct is amusing.

Thinking folks would stop and contemplate if theirs is actually correct and investigate. I have never seen that happen. They just get agitated and angry, then usually start tossing insults and logical fallacies around.

I wonder how amused or annoyed God is about all those who have it wrong.

GW
GW

Probably one or more persons from the usual families who is not known, and who does not exist in official records. Controls hundreds of trillions of dollars. Can buy governments at will.

Jubilees And Goldstars
Jubilees And Goldstars

THIS has an extremely high probability of being exactly correct.

For example, do the math:

It is said the Rothschild family had a fortune of 4.5B dollars by around 1850 – in 1850 dollars.

Assume 50% can generate a return at any time. Do the compunding for 170 years.

Depending upon the actual average interest rate received, and the actual amount of capital “working” at any given time, the result is between low trillions and 100’s of trillions.

It is possible they own everything.

Note from Nevada
Note from Nevada

Eventually proof will come out on who blew up the pipeline..my guess the U.S. that would make the U.S. a terrorist state..no credibility, no moral authority etc..

Machinist
Machinist

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Bob P
Bob P

The attack on the pipeline is outrageous enough, but did the idiotic perpetrators botch part of the job?

https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/did-uncle-sam-a-k-a-wile-e-coyote-blow-up-the-wrong-pipeline/

Boogieman
Boogieman

When at war, you destroy the enemies infrastructure and supply lines as best you can. We are at war, they just forgot to tell us. The atrocities in your name are just getting started. War is an ugly business, it takes ugly people to make it a reality. The best way to fight ugly people is to do something beautiful.

i forget
i forget

We?

“I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong.”

Place & time of birth doesn’t “in my name.”

Boogieman
Boogieman

Yes We, as in you and I.

i forget
i forget

Isn’t it, yet again, 3rd parties instigating a “let’s you & him fight” club? That the club goes on to quickly internalize, then regurgitate, as “we, you & I?”

It is a big club. And yes, we have no bananas. Which means that them what slip on peels brought their own.

Boogieman
Boogieman

Okay, good point, I think

i forget
i forget

“Blowback is back” has a ring to it. But the beast with two backs never went away. Destruction is the product. Not Schumpeterian “creative destruction.” Just destruction.

The wolfpack is forever having wolf for supper. What’s on the plate & what’s got a napkined lap matters not at all. Yet pep rallyists cheer. Some for the overdog. Some for the underdog.

How much is that doggy in the overton window? Virtually free, if ya’ Bastiat the window. Cuz breaking things is good for the economy, dawg.

Machinist
Machinist

Well, shucks yeah, didn’t WWII end the Deepreshun?

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

LNG-ferrying ships could be targeted. For that matter, so could cargo ships from China. Russia wouldn’t do that to China right now, but at some point keeping the supply chain fucked up for America could become more important than letting China-US trade continue unabated. One sunken cargo ship could mess up insurance cost for worldwide shipping. The US has already shown (with Nordstream) how you can destroy infrastructure and just deny – however implausibly – that you did it. Russia has first class submarines. Whenever their calculation of risk-reward changes, ships could be sunk.

Destroying underwater communications cables and low earth orbit satellites are also possibilities.

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ICE-9
ICE-9

LNG is almost always loaded / offloaded at some distance from the shore to prevent total destruction in the event of an explosion. The distance from ship t liquefaction plant takes this into account.

Better to use something like ammonium nitrate which is loaded / offloaded with everyday dry bulk handling processes right in the middle of the port.

https://www.texascitytx.gov/464/First-Explosion

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The gist of it was that in all out war , none of these LNG tankers would ever make it to be offloaded. One missile ten miles out, and you’d never find another crew to sail one.

ICE-9
ICE-9

Well, this is the proverbial rock and a hard place. There is no short term solution whatsoever. Intermediate solution (5+ years) would depend upon the likes of uncontradicted gas from Iran (1.04 quadrillion scf resources) and Venezuela (197 tcf gas resource).

Only feasible solution is to go back to coal and suffer the selective industry and political assassinations as punishment from the green Globohomo. Or just drop the Russian sanctions and get blown to smithereens by Globohomo.

As more and more components go against Globohomo in their attempts to just survive we can expect more of this to occur.

November 17, 1986 – The Assassination of Renault CEO Georges Besse

Anonymous
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