October 11, 2022:
Information Clearing House
-- "UNZ"
“Not
ANOTHER article about the Nordstream
sabotage, surely? We all know who dunnit,
because we’ve seen the Biden clip and Radek
Sikorski/Applebaum’s now deleted tweet,
we’ve noted the telling exchange between
Sen. Ron Johnson and Victoria Nuland, and
because we have the wit to ask the vital
question ‘cui bono?’ So what more is to be
said?”
I understand if
that’s your initial reaction to seeing this
piece, but bear with me, because the
‘mysterious’ Baltic explosions are more than
a hugely dangerous escalation in NATO’s
undeclared war on Russia. They are also a
signal that one of the greatest geopolitical
shifts in world history has already taken
place – and that the Anglo-Zionist elite
understands that its imperial dominance and
unipolar moment have gone for good.
There is, indeed, no
need to spend long on the question of ‘whodunnit’.
The Global Times (a well-informed
source close to the Chinese government)
summed up the blindingly obvious:
“If Russia hopes
to cut off the gas supplies to Europe,
the easiest way is to turn off the valve
instead of blowing its own pipelines, as
Moscow could maintain the advantage of
handling the energy crisis, Shen Yi, a
professor at the School of International
Relations and Public Affairs of Fudan
University, told the Global Times on
Wednesday.
“’Technically,
Russia sabotaging the pipelines in the
Baltic Sea appears to be not
feasible,”’he said. As undersea
activities in the Baltic Sea have been
dominated by NATO members or allies
since the Cold War with monitoring
devices toward then Soviet Union and now
Russia, how could Moscow explode the
pipelines easily, which in fact is not a
favorable thing for itself, Shen asked.
“’Who want to
sabotage the Russia-EU energy
cooperation? The answer is pretty
clear,’ Ming Jinwei, a former journalist
and blogger, told the Global Times on
Wednesday.
‘The US can
achieve three goals: striking Russia’s
energy export to attack its overall
economic and financial revenues, to
limit Europe’s energy supplies and make
it buy more crude oil and gas from the
US with higher prices and to strictly
control the lifeblood of European
countries, he said’.”
This fits in with the
thesis of
a prescient article by Mike Whitney,
published in the Unz Review way back
in February:
“The Ukrainian
crisis has nothing to do with Ukraine.
It’s about Germany and, in particular, a
pipeline that connects Germany to Russia
called Nord Stream 2. Washington sees
the pipeline as a threat to its primacy
in Europe and has tried to sabotage the
project at every turn. ….
“The US Foreign
Policy establishment is not happy about
these developments. They don’t want
Germany to become more dependent on
Russian gas because commerce builds
trust and trust leads to the expansion
of trade. As relations grow warmer, more
trade barriers are lifted, regulations
are eased, travel and tourism increase,
and a new security architecture evolves.
In a world where Germany and Russia are
friends and trading partners, there is
no need for US military bases, no need
for expensive US-made weapons and
missile systems, and no need for NATO.
There’s also no need to transact energy
deals in US Dollars or to stockpile US
Treasuries to balance accounts.
Transactions between business partners
can be conducted in their own currencies
which is bound to precipitate a sharp
decline in the value of the dollar and a
dramatic shift in economic power.
“This is why the
Biden administration opposes Nord
Stream. It’s not just a pipeline, it’s a
window into the future; a future in
which Europe and Asia are drawn closer
together into a massive free trade zone
that increases their mutual power and
prosperity while leaving the US on the
outside looking in. Warmer relations
between Germany and Russia signal an end
to the “unipolar” world order the US has
overseen for the last 75 years. A
German-Russo alliance threatens to
hasten the decline of the Superpower
that is presently inching closer to the
abyss. This is why Washington is
determined to do everything it can to
sabotage Nord Stream and keep Germany
within its orbit. It’s a matter of
survival.”
It is also, very
clearly, a matter of short-term profits.
Bloomberg pointed out in June that the US
sent nearly three quarters of all its
liquefied natural gas to Europe in the first
four months of 2022, with daily shipments to
the region more than tripling from last
year’s average. I have no idea how much that
is worth, but with the Saudi petro-dollar
recycling mechanism so clearly crumbling, it
is logical enough that the US would scramble
for ways to keep their debt-ridden fiat
currency inextricably connected with the
energy business. Enter the European
gas-dollar because, of course, all that LNG
is paid for not in Euros but in USD.
While on the subject
of money, we shouldn’t overlook the fact
that NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine (and
spreading!) is a massive laundering
operation for money transferred from US
taxpayers to private vested interests. From
arms sales to vanishing aid money, a small
number of people are hoovering up vast sums
of money, and they pass a few spare wads of
that filthy lucre back to the politicians
and media outlets who keep up the pressure
for the racket that is war. That said, to
‘follow the money’ alone would lead one to
miss several much bigger and even more
important pictures.
“The primordial
interest of the United States, over which
for centuries we have fought wars– the
First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been
the relationship between Germany and Russia,
because united there, they’re the only force
that could threaten us. And to make sure
that that doesn’t happen.” George Friedman,
STRATFOR CEO at The Chicago Council on
Foreign Affairs
I set out the
connection between the pipeline outrage and
the interests of the US elite in an
interview earlier this week for Sky News
Arabia, which often takes a very different
view of world affairs to that of the Sky
News we all know and loath:
“Given that
Ukraine almost certainly lacks the
capability for such a sophisticated
attack, it is crystal clear who carried
it out. There is only one other
beneficiary from the Nordstream sabotage
– the American financial-industrial
complex and its political puppets.
“It is certainly
not in Russia’s interests to destroy its
own pipelines. Now that they are full of
sea water, the pipes will rapidly
corrode and will quickly be beyond
repair. This means not only an enormous
loss of capital, but it also ends the
possibility that popular anger among the
freezing Germans this winter could force
the Berlin regime to put German
interests first and to seek
rapprochement with Moscow.
“So the four
explosions have demolished not just some
heavily protected pipes, but also
Russia’s potential leverage over Germany
and hence the entire EU. The loss of
Nordstream means that Ukraine now has a
virtual stranglehold on gas supplies
from Russia to Germany and the European
Union. Doing a deal with Moscow would be
completely pointless now that Kiev has
its paws on the remaining pipeline
valves.”
“It is beyond any
reasonable doubt that the USA is to
blame for the destruction. But it would
be naive to assume that the sole, or
even primary, target was Russia.
Nordstream 2 has never worked, while
Nordstream 1 has been closed down since
August. So while it is a huge loss to
Moscow in lost capital and potential
political leverage, in terms of current
and even likely future revenues, it
makes no difference. Indeed, the
increased energy prices this now builds
into the global markets over the coming
winter will mean that Russia will claw
back much of the lost money through
increased profits from sales to Asia.
“The biggest
damage of all will not be done to
Russia, but to Germany. The end of all
hope of a return to affordable Russian
gas means that the deindustrialisation
of the country will speed up even more.
The closure of the BASF chemical plants
is now probably unavoidable, and even
their own experts are uncertain as to
whether, once switched off, they can
ever be made to work again. These plants
provide the feedstock on which the whole
of German and neighbouring countries’
industry depends. Those companies which
can move their operations abroad now
have a massive incentive to switch
production to the USA, but the vast
majority will simply collapse. The
sabotage of Nordstream was thus a
ruthless act of economic war against
Germany and Europe.”
Here we must note
that the only reason that the US Deep State
is in a position to shaft its ‘European
allies’ is that their own political elite
have spent the last decade systematically
dismantling their home-grown energy
industries. We’ve seen the destruction of
the coal industry (and the communities it
supported), the virtual moratorium on new
gas field development and the strangling of
nuclear power. Along with this has gone the
insistence that all these ‘dense’ and
reliable energy sources could be replaced by
innately unreliable and grotesquely
inefficient ‘renewables’.
As F. William Engdahl
has pointed out, this “is not because
politicians like Scholz or German Green
Economy Minister Robert Habeck, nor EU
Commission Green Energy Vice President Frans
Timmermans are stupid or clueless. Corrupt
and dishonest, maybe yes. They know exactly
what they are doing. They are reading a
script. It is all part of the EU plan to
deindustrialize one of the most
energy-efficient industrial concentrations
on the planet. This is the UN Green Agenda
2030 otherwise known as Klaus Schwab’s Great
Reset.”
An insight into the
scale of the self-imposed disaster may be
glimpsed in the forecast of Confartigianato,
in Italy. On September 9th, the president
Marco Granelli stated that “expensive energy
puts 881,264 micro and small enterprises
with 3,529,000 employees at risk, equal to
20.6 percent of the employment of the
Italian business system”. The employers’
spokesman warned of a coming “massacre of
companies.”
Engdahl went on to
explain how the ‘liberalisation’ of the
European gas market has turned the industry
from an energy supply operation into a huge
casino for speculation in futures, in which
every new alarm and instability creates the
opportunity for vast profits.
Once again, the lust
for money is the root of much of this evil,
although we should not under-estimate the
parallel role of ideology. Or, more
accurately, of religion, because the
so-called ‘green agenda’ is, at root, a
pseudo-religious cult.
The religiosity for
which human beings are hardwired, having
been deprived of its traditional Christian
expression in the increasingly Godless West,
has re-emerged in a hysterical cult of
Mother Earth. We have angered the Goddess,
and to placate her we must sacrifice the
things we most value. Although, strangely,
the liberal elite who push such the
secularised rationalisations of this
anti-human fantasy, show a marked reluctance
to make such sacrifices themselves.
This stinking
hypocrisy is one of the drivers of the
increasingly powerful protests against the
various consequences of assorted liberal
elite policy decisions, particularly the
energy-suicide-by-Russia now being imposed
on the peoples of Europe by Brussels,
Washington and their various local puppet
occupation governments.
Huge demonstrations
against the sanctions and in favour of
Russian gas have already taken place in
Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Spain
and Italy. It was easy to imagine these
becoming irresistibly huge and violently
angry once the winter really sets in. But
not any more. What is the point of
demonstrating to re-open gas pipelines which
cannot be turned back on? Or others which
pass through the territory of the mortal
enemies of the potential gas supplier?
Surely, we will still
see angry protests, but they will no longer
have a demand which could be instantly
fulfilled and which would mean that NATO’s
Ukraine adventure had ended in political and
economic humiliation as well as military
castration.
The Europeans in
general – and the Germans in particular –
can protest all they like, but the
destruction of Nordstream and the related
fall-out mean that they really don’t have a
choice anymore. Either pay whatever price is
demanded for those LNG shipments from Texas
– or freeze.
By now, the
well-informed reader is probably wondering
“when is he going to mention the Rand
Corporation document? That bears out
everything said so far”. Yes it does. The
‘leaked’ document does indeed explain the US
Deep State’s destructive and cynical game
very well.
But, along with
“follow the money”, there is another very
useful saying in life: “If something’s too
good to be true, it probably isn’t.” And,
unfortunately, I have to say that I believe
that, while the document “Executive Summary:
Weakening Germany, strengthening the U.S.”
is accurate in what it describes; it is just
too good to be true. It’s a piece of black
propaganda, which resonates so well because
it is based on the facts.
I have studied the
document very carefully, and I can tell you
beyond any reasonable doubt that it is
written by someone whose native language is
not English. It is very, very nearly perfect
English, but it isn’t 100%. It includes
phrases such as these:
“The continuing
deterioration of the economic situation
is highly likely to lead to a loss in
the position of the Democratic Party in
Congress and the Senate in the
forthcoming elections to be held in
November 2022.”
“Thanks to our
precise actions, it has been possible to
block the commissioning of the Nord
Stream 2 pipeline”
“…..a loss in the
position…….thanks to our precise actions”?
To paraphrase Scotty in Star Trek, “it’s
English, Jim, but not as we know it!”
An even bigger
give-away lurks in the phrase “The major
obstacle to it is growing independence of
Germany.” No native English speaker would
ever drop ‘the’ from before ‘growing’. But
where do they do that? Apart from the
unfeasibly sexy accent (when spoken by a
woman, that is!) it’s the single most
distinctive feature of Russian-English.
Is the Rand
corporation having its internal secret
documents written by a Russian fifth
columnist traitor now living and working in
the USA ? Either that, or the document is a
forgery. My money is on the latter although,
of course, what makes the forgery so
convincing is that it so neatly sums up the
reality of what is going on and why.
I’m sorry if that
disappointed or angered you, but it doesn’t
do the cause of truth any good to try to
bolster it with documents which the liberal
media can, if it becomes necessary, credibly
write off as forgeries. Especially when the
facts of what is being done by the criminals
in Washington, London, Brussels and Kiev
speak for themselves.
One of the most
important of those facts is what Washington
is doing to Germany, with the criminal
complicity of the occupation regime in
Berlin. They are reinforcing the vassal
status of Germany by demolishing the
infrastructure which gave it the physical
potential to reject subservience. You cannot
break away if doing so means the total
collapse of your society, but to make you
that vulnerable in the first place,your
society has to be brought to near collapse
and total dependence.
“Why Is Germany
Committing Suicide?” asked David Chu in an
article on Information Clearing House. “The
Same Reasons why the EU/UK is Being
Deindustrialized”, he replied in answer to
his own question. He went on to ask another
rhetorical question, which hit the nail on
the head:
“Is it to
emasculate Europe completely so as to
make Europe completely dependent on the
US for both energy and technology? The
rest of the world is moving towards BRI
and BRICS. The only block left to
harvest aka rape and pillage for the
Americans is Europe (plus Japan and
South Korea).”
Just so! Which brings
me to the crucial geopolitical point which,
as far as I know, no other analyst has made
so far. To use Germany, the EU and UK as
obedient and useful vassals in a
long-running cold or hot war, the USA would
need them to have huge stocks of modern
weapons and the ability to make more.
Yet, all we have seen
since the conflict was first provoked are
weapons and munitions being thrown into the
Donbass meat grinder, at a rate which has
left military insiders all over Western and
central Europe warning that their armed
forces are running out of the capacity to
defend their own territory, let alone fight
NATO’s proxy war in the Ukraine.
Even more incredibly,
the industrial capacity which the EU and UK
would need to wage a prolonged conventional
war is being obliterated. In WW2 terms it’s
as if Churchill had turned Bomber Command on
Coventry and Birmingham, Goering had used
the Luftwaffe to deindustrialise the Ruhr,
and American Flying Fortresses had flattened
London and Moscow.
Given that nuclear
war would be suicidal for all concerned,
this can only mean that – while their
recklessness might cause nuclear Armageddon
– the sinister forces running the Biden
regime do not actually plan on fighting
World War Three. I repeat, no-one prepares
for war by destroying their allies’ capacity
to wage it alongside them.
Understanding this
also brings us to a geopolitical revelation.
Again, I explained this in my latest piece
for Sky News Arabia:
“The United
States elite know that they have already
lost world hegemony. We’ve just seen an
exercise in desperate damage control. At
the end of WW2 and during the old Cold
War, the USA went to extraordinary
lengths not only to keep Western Europe
on its side, but also to ensure that
Germany in particular became once again
an economic powerhouse. To fight either
a Cold War or a conventional hot one,
you and your allies need steel works,
chemical plants, vehicle factories and
agricultural production. This was why
Washington moved so swiftly from the
Morgenthau Plan for the
‘pastoralisation’ and genocide of
defeated Germany, to the Marshall Plan
to rebuild it. A wealthy and
economically powerful Western Europe was
seen as an essential bulwark against the
Soviet Union – economically and
financially as well as militarily.
“The massive
contrast between the Marshall Plan and
the current energy blockade shows just
how far times have changed. Washington
knows that the unipolar moment has gone;
nothing except mutual nuclear
destruction can now stop
China-Russia-India and the ‘global
south’ developing their own economic
power bloc and leaving America out in
the cold. With the long struggle for
global hegemony lost, Europe has ceased
to be an essential ally.
“The first aim of
the Ukraine war was to drive such a
wedge between Germany and Russia that
Berlin and its EU hinterland would not
drift into the orbit of the new Eurasian
co-prosperity sphere. That was achieved,
but with no prospect of successful
confrontation or competition with
Eurasia. To do that Washington would
need Germany and the EU not just onside,
but also still economically powerful.
“Germany and the
EU have instead become a target for
asset stripping and the sale of
ruinously expensive energy supplies. The
‘West’ has lost control of the world, so
to try to make up for it, America has
moved to ensure that it is the only
economic superpower in the West. Just
how long this giant looting operation
can prop up the debt-ridden dollar is
unclear but, from the point of view of
Wall Street and the White House, it
makes a very cynical sort of sense.
“Desperate sense
too, because to beggar your key
long-term allies and your one reliable
market for a short-term financial fix is
the decision of a financial junkie, not
an all-powerful Doctor Evil.”
To conclude, this may
still be about Mackinder, but it is no
longer about control of the Eurasian land
mass. To even contemplate that, Washington
would need not just the conscripts of
Western Europe, but also German industrial
capacity. Further, even conscripts have to
be willing to fight, and a society wrecked
by green agenda lunacy and energy sabotage
is not going to be worth fighting for.
So the
Washington/Wall Street aim is not
maintenance or restoration of global
hegemony. It is to try to ensure the
survival of US dominance in the shrunken
empire of the West. In just fifteen per cent
of the world!
Once more, to get to
the bottom line, let’s follow the money. The
panicking ‘Masters of the Universe’ are
sacrifice their European allies in the
desperate hope, not of global victory, but
of trying to keep the fiat dollar Ponzi
scheme afloat for a little while longer –
even as the national debt surges past $30
trillion and the money printing machine goes
into hyperdrive.
I will end with my
reply to the final question from that Arab
journalist the other day, who asked me what
I thought Russia do to retaliate for the
Baltic blast:
“No-one can
predict what Russia will do, although we
can be certain that the USA will in due
course be presented with a very hefty
bill for this latest outrage. ‘You blow
up our pipelines, we’ll blow up yours’
is the sort of knee-jerk, over-hasty
reaction to which Western powers are
prone; Russia’s response is likely to be
made in a more subtle way, somewhere
further down the line.
“Given that it is
about energy supplies, the bill for
Nordstream might, for example, involve
providing the tools which Syria and Iran
need to complete the elimination of
NATO’s proxy forces in Syria and Iraq.
The end to the American oil-theft
operation in Syria is an obvious and
very fitting response. Given Vladimir
Putin’s pledge that attacks on Russia
would be met with an asymmetric
response, however, while it would not be
a surprise if this happens, it would be
a big surprise if it was all that
happens.
“World history
since the 1960s has been one long
succession of US aggression, over-reach
and ghastly foreign policy errors which
blow up in Uncle Sam’s face. There’s no
reason for this to turn out any
different.”