{"id":136595,"date":"2022-09-28T12:18:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=136595"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:19:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:19:27","slug":"has-the-cia-blown-up-the-nord-stream-gas-pipeline-to-prevent-russia-coming-to-europes-rescue-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=136595","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b><i>Has the CIA Blown Up the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline to Prevent Russia Coming to Europe\u2019s Rescue this Winter?<\/i><\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n<p>As both Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 both suddenly lost pressure last Monday, Swedish seismologists registered multiple explosions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The pipeline director reports unprecedented damage.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Clearly this is deliberate sabotage and could only have been done by a government with submarine capability to place underwater mines.<\/p>\n<p>Who could that be?<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State Blinken said the pipeline damage presents a \u201csignificant opportunity\u201d for Western Europe to abandon Russian natural gas in favor of liquified natural gas from the US.<\/p>\n<p>A Polish member of the European Parliament thanked the US for putting the pipeline out of commission as now Russia will have to negotiate with Poland in order to deliver gas to Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/563633-cia-germany-nordstream-spiegel\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/563633-cia-germany-nordstream-spiegel\/<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When faced with Russian intervention to prevent Ukraine\u2019s invasion of Donbass, US President Biden said: \u201cThere will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it. I promise you, we will be able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s well trained European puppets will, of course, blame Russia for blowing up her own pipeline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/563639-zakharova-nord-stream-sabotage\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/563639-zakharova-nord-stream-sabotage\/<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20220927\/powerful-underwater-explosions-reportedly-registered-in-area-of-gas-leaks-from-nord-stream-1101281247.html\">https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20220927\/powerful-underwater-explosions-reportedly-registered-in-area-of-gas-leaks-from-nord-stream-1101281247.html<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As I have warned would be the case, the Kremlin\u2019s dilly-dallying over Ukraine has given Washington plenty of time for more mischief and widening of the conflict.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The Kremlin\u2019s emphasis on legalisms might end in nuclear war.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The only safe way for Russia to deal with the threat from Ukraine would have been a blitzkrieg attack that conquered Ukraine before the West could react.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The go-slow, limited, drawn out conflict has played directly into Washington\u2019s hands.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>We might all die as the result.<\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt that the war has widened, and now the Kremlin is betting Ukraine and the West will not continue the war if it involves direct attacks on Russian territory, thus the referendums.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As I explained yesterday, a fateful moment of history is upon us.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2022\/09\/27\/a-fateful-moment-of-history-is-upon-us\/\">\u00a0https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2022\/09\/27\/a-fateful-moment-of-history-is-upon-us\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>US SHIPS SUSPECTED OF SABOTAGE ATTACK ON NORD STREAM PIPELINES<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/southfront.org\/us-ships-suspected-of-sabotage-attack-on-nord-stream-pipelines\/\">https:\/\/southfront.org\/us-ships-suspected-of-sabotage-attack-on-nord-stream-pipelines\/<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tucker Carlson Explains . . .<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patriots.win\/p\/15JnG2D5uQ\/tucker-carlson-on-the-pipeline-f\/c\/\">https:\/\/patriots.win\/p\/15JnG2D5uQ\/tucker-carlson-on-the-pipeline-f\/c\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2022\/09\/28\/has-the-cia-blown-up-the-nord-stream-gas-pipeline-to-prevent-russia-coming-to-europes-rescue-this-winter\/\">https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2022\/09\/28\/has-the-cia-blown-up-the-nord-stream-gas-pipeline-to-prevent-russia-coming-to-europes-rescue-this-winter\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}