There are fewer and fewer doubts: the four leaks detected in the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines they were not an accident. Were “a deliberate attack“, according to the European Union, and a “act of sabotage“, according to NATO. As the consensus grows about the nature of the explosions in the infrastructures that connect Russia with Germany through the Baltic Sea, it also increases the number of theories about authorship.
One of the theories speaks of a US conspiracy and has been fueled by the former Vice President of the Government paul churches. This conjecture, widespread in social networks, accuses the United States of blowing up the new Nord Stream, since he opposed building the infrastructure from the start or on the pretext that it would allow Russia to increase its energy influence on the continent. Or, according to the defenders of this thesis, with the intention to sell its own gas to Europe.
This is, in fact, the official speech released by the Russian Government. This same Thursday, the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharovpointed out that the US would be the most benefited from the damage to the gas pipelines, since if they are not repaired, as Germany has announced, it can increase its sales of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
[El Báltico se queda sin gas: Von der Leyen advierte de “la respuesta más fuerte posible” por el “sabotaje”]
To back up her theory, the Kremlin official said the leaks occurred in territory that is “fully under the control” of US intelligence agencies.
Now, the United States has been trying for months to satisfy energetic bulimia of Europe and now it has problems to cover its domestic gas supply. This complicates exports, in addition to the fact that the community bloc does not have the necessary infrastructure (warehouses and ports) to buy all the gas by sea.
In this regard, the US President, Joe Biden, he is not interested in damaging his transatlantic alliance and lose a major trading partner just as inflation hits your country. It is much less interested in doing so now that Russia is increasing its nuclear rhetoric.
Pres. Biden: “If Russia invades…then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”
Reporter: “But how will you do that, exactly, since…the project is in Germany’s control?”
Biden: “I promise you, we will be able to do that.” https://t.co/uruQ4F4zM9 pic.twitter.com/4ksDaaU0YC
— ABC News (@ABC) February 7, 2022
Churches and Purse
Those who, like Podemos founder Juan Carlos Monedero, believe that Washington has perpetrated a false flag attack cling to the tweet of a Polish MEP, Radek Sikorsky, which openly blamed the White House for the Nord Stream leaks. “Thank you, United States,” she wrote in a message that then erased.
In the program ‘La base’, Iglesias himself has pointed in that direction, speaking of “some quite obvious elements that can at least allow us to draw a subtle hypothesis”. His assumption stops by asserting that Russia has no motives for sabotage.
Germany considers that the Nord Stream has been rendered useless forever: ”
Also, both he and Monedero refer to the warning that Biden launched in February this year during a press conference. The American leader said that he would end the Nord Stream if Russia invaded Ukraine. When asked by a reporter how he intended to do it, he simply replied, “I promise you we’ll be able to do it.” In that same appearance, Biden clarified that he would apply “additional penalties“to the pipeline.
The US military presence in the baltic sea, where NATO has numerous surveillance units deployed, is another of the pillars that support this theory. It is specifically based on an article published in the German media NDR which maintains that, in August, “4,000 US soldiers on three ships they became untraceable when they were near the island of Bornholm”. Precisely, in the area where the explosions occurred.
Another option: Russia
another theory points directly to Russia. When the war in Ukraine began, Berlin halted the commissioning of the recently completed Nord Stream 2, and Russia responded by cutting off the flow through Nord Stream 1, although that directly affected its economy. Thus, there are those who see it feasible that Moscow has blown up the gas pipelines to send a warning to the West. That is to say, as a display of attack capacity, despite having invested billions in the construction of the Nord Stream 2.
This conjecture has been openly defended by Ukraine and Poland. They have been based mainly on CIA advance notices about a possible enemy attack and those of the UK Royal Navy about the secret incursions of Russian submarines. In addition, the incidents occurred just the day before the opening of the Baltic Pipe that carries gas from Norway to Poland and is an essential element of Warsaw’s efforts to reduce its dependence on Russian energy.
