By any measure, the US gamble to damage Russia by bombing Nordstream was a failure

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Years have passed since President Joe Biden reportedly ordered the bombing of the Nordstream 2 pipeline, and the dust has long settled. We can now answer whether the White House’s reckless gamble to harm Moscow succeeded or not. The answer is definitive: it failed. But did the White House really commit this enormous economic, political and climate crime? Well, noted investigative journalist Seymour Hersh concluded long ago, with a lot of insider pizazz, that this was indeed the case. Much more recently, on September 26, we almost got a smoking gun, namely verified reports of the covert presence of US Navy warships with their transponders suspected OUT, near the crime scene, four or five days before the explosion. These warships operated in Denmark’s exclusive economic zone. The captain of a small Danish port heard about this, but officials kept him quiet for years. Only recently was he able to speak out before Danish journalists.

So who did the explosion harm? Not Russia. Moscow has just moved its cheap natural gas to the east and has made money there hand over fist. The same goes for sanctioned oil: Moscow sells it to India, which raises the price and sells it to Europe. Russia is now the world’s fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity, trailing Japan, and is relatively unscathed by impotent Western sanctions. Really, who did the explosion hurt? Not the US, which this convenient catastrophe has enabled to sell its exorbitantly expensive and therefore previously uncompetitive liquid natural gas to Europe. But Europe? Ah, that’s another matter. And specifically Germany. Remember when Biden threatened to destroy Nordstream 2 on TV. His accomplice Victoria Nuland also fulminated in the same way. It turns out that these mafiosi-like threats came true and led to the rapid deindustrialization of Europe’s economic powerhouse – Deutschland.

Germany had 10,702 corporate bankruptcies in the first quarter of 2024, which was more of an indictment of Russophobic foreign and economic policies. After all, if Berlin had allowed the use of the only remaining and functioning Nordstream pipeline, cheap Russian gas would have prevented many of those companies from going bankrupt. But Prime Minister Olaf “Liver Brain” Scholz cut off his country’s nose to save face: no cheap energy from Moscow, not even for the flagship German car company Volkswagen, which is currently considering up to 30,000 job cuts when it closes several German factories. The company also ended its long-standing job security agreements with the country’s unions. And what caused this production debacle? Abrupt withdrawal from cheap Russian energy. And other various imbecilic sanctions. Europe, led by the German nation, decided to commit economic suicide.

The German economy is steadily shrinking, RT reported on October 14: growth for 2024 is likely to be minus 0.2 percent, and this is “the new, miserable German normal.” It is not a mistake, not an aberration, but the way things will remain for a while. As RT notes, the halcyonic, pre-Russian sanctions days of the mid-2000s are over, with cumulative growth of 24 percent. And things are no better elsewhere in the European Union. France is on track for 57,000 to 62,000 business bankruptcies by 2024. Italy is expected to see a 22 percent increase in bankruptcies this year, while in Spain thousands of businesses have been forced to close their doors. Meanwhile, thousands of British companies went bankrupt in 2024, and officials estimate the number of bankruptcies is 147 percent higher than before the pandemic.

This is not the rosy picture of a thriving region. It’s a bit like a funeral home, especially when these poor bankruptcy statistics are combined with a long-term declining birth rate. Europe was largely dependent on cheap Russian energy. In reality, Moscow has subsidized and protected European industry from American economic predation – who would have thought? Apparently not the Europeans, who apparently in their degraded arrogance simply took this sweet deal for granted. Now that they have rejected it because of their so-called principles (which principles? That they should be able to expand a murderous military alliance right on Russia’s doorstep, without any objection from the Kremlin? Or that they should allow the Ukro-fascist slaughter of ethnic Russians in the Donbass?), they see their companies closing their shops and many moving, where? Dum, da, dum, dum: to the United States, thanks to the American Inflation Reduction Act, a deliberate insult to their so-called allies in Europe, designed to steal their businesses. Washington’s vassalization project for Europe is complete, and in a sign of Germany’s abject subjugation, the president recently awarded Joe “Nordstream Bomber” Biden a medal. I mean, is this the height of masochism or something?

Meanwhile, in other grim EU news, Moldova’s recent referendum on October 20 was manipulated so that the country could join this gang of suicidal masochists known as the EU. The elections were an embarrassment to democracy; According to political scientist and Eastern European expert Ivan Katchanovski on Twitter, many pro-Russian citizens in Transdniestria were unable to vote on October 21, while only two polling stations opened in Moscow for the 400,000 Moldovan citizens living in Russia. That meant that perhaps only 10,000 of Russia’s 400,000 Moldovans could vote. This was a decision by the pro-EU Moldovan government, which, by the way, only won 50 percent of Moldovans living in the country to join the EU… Welp, that’s it for Moldova, in all likelihood the next Ukraine, yourself. – sacrificing a Western altar of false openness to troublemaking groups like NATO and whatever idiotic fad of the day.

One incident surrounding the presidential election, tweeted by Peacemaket on October 21, was particularly egregious. “A Moldovan national arrived in Moldova, voted in the country’s presidential election, and discovered that Britain had already voted for him. The incident took place with a man named Alexander Nikolaevich in the town of Tvarditsa in the Taraclia region of the republic. This is called election fraud.”

From this you can conclude that the presidential elections, just like the EU referendum, were not exactly on an upward trend. Then again, American officials helped actual Nazis overthrow the Kiev government in 2014, so they’re old hands when it comes to such funny business in this corner of Europe. I don’t know if there was any US involvement in these murky elections in Moldova, but US preferences are no secret to that. And these preferences are of course accompanied by ideological doctrinal anti-Russian blinders. No dissenting opinions allowed. As we also see in Georgia, which voted overwhelmingly to remain at the end of October, instead of joining the EU’s kamikaze mission to open a second front against Russia, Georgia could still lead to a Western-backed coup against the legally elected government.

Back in Berlin, it can be said that American behavior towards its EU ally has been appalling on the whole. Calling for the destruction of an ally’s critical infrastructure – Nordstream – and then actually bombing it, then cowardly lying about it and expecting the victims to swallow these lies, literally rubbing their faces in this nonsense – what are the words for such behavior ? Treacherous, evil, arrogant, violent, worthless, stupid? You choose. But no matter how many you choose, don’t forget stupid. Because Washington needs a healthy European ally. Joe Biden may not have thought that if the thinking can be attributed to his actions, but who has the US without a healthy Europe? Canada, Japan, South Korea, Israel and Australia. That’s about it. Compare it to the number of countries that are in or clamoring to join the BRICS. And make no mistake: Washington has brought about a decline in Europe. This after the country embarked on its disastrous proxy adventure in Ukraine, leaving Western defense cabinets virtually empty.

When photos of the aftermath of the Nordstream explosion at sea first emerged, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski tweeted: “Thank you, America.” Thank you, because nothing looks like this anymore. Thanks for robbing us, he should have said. And when the history of this shameful and disgusting episode is written, it will be clearly noted that this was Washington’s first shot at the head of his closest ally, and ultimately at his own head.