{"id":137365,"date":"2022-10-02T09:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T13:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=137365"},"modified":"2022-10-02T09:33:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T13:33:03","slug":"who-pulled-the-trigger-on-nord-stream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=137365","title":{"rendered":"Who Pulled the Trigger on Nord Stream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Renee Parsons<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As most observers of American politics may agree that the Biden Administration has a tendency to screw up everything it initiates \u2013 the boomerang of the sanctions against Russia being one stupendous example as well as Russia\u2019s military conquest in Ukraine which led to the ultimate annexation of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/69465\"><span class=\"s2\">historic Russian territory<\/span><\/a>. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Instead of taking down Russia\u2019s economy and creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/thesaker.is\/american-roulette\/\"><span class=\"s2\">world-class<\/span><\/a> crisis, the ruble is solid as western economies are in the final throes of fiscal and societal collapse, grasping at EU straws to remain relevant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nevertheless, the implications of the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v1lv6nk-the-russian-pipeline-attack-explained.html?mref=6zof&amp;mrefc=2\"><span class=\"s2\">remotely detonated<\/span><\/a> explosions of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, as part of the let\u2019s-blame-Russia-for-everything game lies a horrific reality of exactly how far US foreign policy has declined when its European allies may be tools to salvage the floundering Empire.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It would be no surprise for the Biden Administration to be narrow minded enough to destroy the pipeline without thoroughly thinking through the implications of what the destruction of NS will bring to US allies: no gas\/no heat\/no electricity\/no fertilizer\/no food\/no modern convenience. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Some might call it \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=190zSqECSCE\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>bad karma\u2019<\/i><\/span><\/a> of which there is no doubt; these people cannot seem to do anything of civic value but most importantly, have exhibited no sense of a moral compass.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Domestically speaking, the Biden inner circle of criminal neocons, globalist elites and political anarchists, continue to weaponize the American legal system, with no conscience, no respect for Constitutional law, American tradition, custom or history, as the wheel of unintended consequences, otherwise known as the American voter, is about to retrieve their country from the grasp of an illegitimate gang of felonious thugs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While speculation immediately focused on Russia,<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">there is now general agreement that the senseless bombings were the result of a deliberate act of sabotage with Poland\u2019s former defense minister Radek Sikorski almost immediate <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1514367\"><span class=\"s2\">twitter<\/span><\/a> \u2018<i>Thank You USA\u2019<\/i> while citing <\/span><span class=\"s3\">US President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/video-biden-saying-end-nord-stream-resurfaces-after-pipeline-leak-1747005\"><span class=\"s2\">speaking to reporters<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s4\"> on February 7, &#8220;<i>If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine again, there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s5\"><i>. <\/i><\/span><span class=\"s4\"><i>We will bring an end to it<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s5\"><i>.<\/i>&#8220;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition, there is no dispute that the CIA warned Germany within weeks of a possible pipeline attack perhaps as a covering their butt tactic.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Then almost immediately, US<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">Secretary of State Anthony Blinken wasted no time to brag that destruction of NS provided the US with a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/563861-blinken-nord-stream-opportunity\/\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>tremendous opportunity\u2019<\/i> <\/span><\/a><i>to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy\u201d <\/i>and provide Europe with American LNG.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The US has long opposed creation of the NS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s4\">Only a <\/span><span class=\"s7\">political novice or intense Russia-phobe could seriously assert that Russia blew up its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2022\/10\/putins-remarks-on-europe.html\"><span class=\"s2\">own pipeline<\/span><\/a> when it could have just as easily flipped a switch. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is of course too vile to consider the notion that the US would consciously undermine its own <a href=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=137208\"><span class=\"s2\">allies<\/span><\/a> who have willfully played second fiddle to the Empire for decades.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s8\"> Regardless of who and when the culprits may be acknowledged, the unprecedented attack on Russian infrastructure and European sovereignty by virtue of the impact on all European states is undeniable as those who stand to gain from the attack may continue to avoid public condemnation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s8\">At the same time, Ukraine submits an accelerated NATO application as Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg suggested that <\/span><span class=\"s1\">NATO countries will not in any way recognize Russian sovereignty over the four newly declared annexed territories and yet suggests that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><b>&#8220;<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/ukraine-applies-accelerated-nato-membership-stoltenberg-speak-soon?utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=955\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>NATO is not a party to conflict<\/i><\/span><\/a>.&#8221;<b>\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/b>In other words, as long as Ukraine is not a bona fide member of NATO, there is no obligation on the part of NATO\u2019s thirty members to initiate a massive war against Russia except that a NATO presence encroaching on Russian borders would cross a red line<\/span><span class=\"s9\">.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov asserted that by supplying Ukraine with weapons, NATO members were already committed to the conflict<\/span><span class=\"s9\">.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Essential questions remain:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>what \u2018state actor\u2019 has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2022\/10\/no_author\/who-profits-from-pipeline-terror\/\"><span class=\"s2\">sophisticated equipment<\/span><\/a> and technical skill to accomplish a massive underwater explosion of 500 kg of TNT at a depth of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/nord-stream-pipeline-damage-1.6597069\"><span class=\"s2\">80 meters<\/span><\/a> to cause the equivalent of a magnitude 2.3 earthquake?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Who would benefit from thwarting the private German-Russian discussions attempting to resolve outstanding NS issues? <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s10\">Perhaps it was coincidental that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/search?q=USS+Kearsarge&amp;docid=608054072660485879&amp;mid=48A486FF6F6C29F8636E48A486FF6F6C29F8636E&amp;view=detail&amp;FORM=VIRE\"><span class=\"s2\">USS Kearsarge<\/span><\/a>, the Navy\u2019s Amphibious Assault ship,<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> was on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/search?q=USS+Kearsarge&amp;&amp;view=detail&amp;mid=48A486FF6F6C29F8636E48A486FF6F6C29F8636E&amp;&amp;FORM=VRDGAR&amp;ru=%252Fvideos%252Fsearch%253Fq%253DUSS%252520Kearsarge%2526%2526FORM%253DVDVVXX\"><span class=\"s2\">international<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>training exercise in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/search?q=USS+Kearsarge&amp;&amp;view=detail&amp;mid=60C723DD5E7B97348ECB60C723DD5E7B97348ECB&amp;rvsmid=48A486FF6F6C29F8636E48A486FF6F6C29F8636E&amp;FORM=VDQVAP\"><span class=\"s2\">Baltic Sea<\/span><\/a> with Sweden amid a historic visit to Finland during the time of the explosion.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>On September 21<\/span><span class=\"s11\"><sup>st<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, unconfirmed reports claimed that the Kearsarge was <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v1m2hru-crosstalk-russian-pipeline-sabotaged-by-uss-kearsarge.html?mref=6zof&amp;mc=dgip3&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Stew+Peters+Network&amp;ep=2\"><span class=\"s2\">tracked<\/span><\/a> 30 km from Nord Stream 1 and 50 km from Nord Stream 2 with an assertion that its transponder was frequently turned off. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Russians have the necessary satellite and electronic monitoring to confirm any suspicions.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Kearsarge is a state-of-the-art ship, fully equipped for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Command_and_control\"><span class=\"s2\">command and control<\/span><\/a> missions to support Navy Seal, Special Forces operations and helicopter deployments, with its homeport at the Norfolk Naval Station which is also home to <a href=\"https:\/\/act.nato.int\/articles\/norfolk-nato-home-north-america\"><span class=\"s2\">NATO North America<\/span><\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While the newly opened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltic-pipe.eu\/dk\/the-project\/baltic-sea-offshore\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Baltic Sea Offshore pipeline<\/span><\/a> built to provide gas between Poland and Denmark with access through Sweden was curiously not attacked as NS, the Germans remain silent and Americans sit outside the loop begs the question whether any other NATO members are more knowledgeable. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Will Russia follow through on its earlier promise to defend all \u2018liberated\u2019 Russian territory including the NS pipelines or the Kersh Strait Bridge as well as to hold \u2018foreign actors\u2019 responsible for any military incursion against Russian sovereignty?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p3\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Renee Parsons\u00a0served on the once prestigious ACLU\u2019s Florida State Board of Directors and as president of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter. She has been an elected public official in Colorado, staff in the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, an environmental lobbyist for Friends of the Earth and a staff member of the US House of Representatives in Washington DC.<\/span><\/em><\/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-137365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}