Using any metrics means the US gambit to harm Russia by bombing Nordstream has failed

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It’s been years since President Joe Biden allegedly ordered the bombing of the Nordstream 2 pipeline, and the dust has long settled. We can now answer whether the White House’s reckless move to harm Moscow succeeded or failed. The answer is final: it didn’t work. But has the White House really committed this enormous economic, political and climate crime? Well, renowned investigative reporter Seymour Hersh long ago concluded, with plenty of insiders, that yes. Much more recently, on September 26, we almost got to the smoking gun, namely verified reports of the surreptitious presence of U.S. Navy warships with their transponders suspiciously turned off near the crime scene four or five days before the explosion. These ships operated in Denmark’s exclusive economic zone. The captain of a small Danish port found out about this, but officials silenced him for years. Only recently was he able to talk to Danish journalists.

So who was harmed by the explosion? Not Russia. Moscow just redirected its cheap natural gas to the east and is making money like hell there. It’s similar with 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 measured by purchasing power parity, ahead of Japan, and relatively untouched by powerless Western sanctions. Really, who was hurt by the explosion? Not the United States, which thanks to this convenient disaster allowed the sale of outrageously expensive, and therefore previously uncompetitive, liquefied natural gas to Europe. But Europe? Ah, that’s another matter. Specifically, Germany. Remember that Biden threatened on TV to destroy Nordstream 2. His supporter Victoria Nuland also fulminated in this way. It turns out that these mafioso threats came true and led to the rapid deindustrialization of the European economic powerhouse – Deutschland.

In the first quarter of 2024, Germany boasted 10,702 company bankruptcies, which is rather an indictment of its Russophobic foreign and economic policy. After all, if Berlin agreed to use the only operating Nordstream gas pipeline, cheap Russian gas would prevent the bankruptcy of many of these companies. But Prime Minister Olaf “Liver Brain” Scholz cut off his country’s nose to spite its face: No cheap energy from Moscow, not even for Germany’s flagship car company Volkswagen, which is currently considering laying off up to 30,000 workers after closing several German factories. The company has also resolved long-term occupational safety arrangements with trade unions in the country. And what caused this production failure? Sudden withdrawal from cheap Russian energy. And other imbecile sanctions. Europe, led by the Teutonic nation, decided to commit economic suicide.

The German economy is steadily shrinking, as RT reported on October 14: Its growth in 2024 is likely to be minus 0.2 percent and this is the “pathetic new German norm.” This is not a moment, not an aberration, but it will be like this for some time. As RT notes, the carefree times in the mid-2000s before Russian sanctions, when the cumulative growth was 24%, are gone. The situation is no better in other parts of the European Union. France is on track to see between 57,000 and 62,000 business bankruptcies in 2024. In Italy, the number of such bankruptcies is expected to increase by 22% this year, while in Spain thousands of businesses will close. Meanwhile, thousands of British businesses have fallen into ruin in 2024, with officials estimating that 147% of bankruptcies have exceeded pre-pandemic levels.

This is not a rosy picture of a prosperous region. This has a funeral home feel to it, especially when these poor bankruptcy statistics are coupled with a long-term decline in birth rates. Europe was hugely dependent on cheap Russian energy. In fact, Moscow subsidized European industry and protected it from American economic predation – who knew? 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 (what principles? That they should be allowed to expand a murderous military alliance right on Russia’s doorstep, without the slightest opposition from the Kremlin? Or that they should aid the Ucrofascist slaughter of ethnic Russians in Donbas?) , find that their companies are closing stores and many are moving to where? Dum, da, dum, dum: to the United States, thanks to the US Inflation Reduction Act, a deliberate insult to its so-called allies in Europe, intended to steal their businesses. Washington’s project of vassalizing Europe has been completed and, demonstrating Germany’s extreme submission, its president recently awarded the medal to Joe “Nordstream Bomber” Biden. I mean, is this the height of masochism or what?

Meanwhile, in other grim news from the EU, Moldova’s recent October 20 referendum was manipulated so that it could join the gang of suicidal masochists known as the EU. The elections were a disgrace to democracy; according to political scientist and Eastern European expert Ivan Katkhanovsky in an October 21 Twitter post, many pro-Russian Transnistrian citizens were unable to vote, while only two polling stations were opened in Moscow for the 400,000 Moldovan citizens living in Russia. This meant that perhaps only 10,000 of the 400,000 Moldovans in Russia could vote. It was the decision of the pro-EU government of Moldova, which, by the way, convinced only 50 percent of Moldovans living in the country to support its candidacy for EU membership… Well, that’s all about Moldova, most likely another Ukraine, its own – making a sacrifice on the Western altar of false openness at trouble-making groups like NATO and whatever idiotic fad comes along.

One incident related to the presidential election, tweeted by Peacemaket on October 21, was particularly egregious. “A Moldovan citizen arrived in Moldova, went to vote in the country’s presidential elections and found out that the UK had already voted for him. The incident occurred involving a man named Alexander Nikolayevich in the town of Tvarditsa in the Taraclia region of the republic. This is called voter fraud.”

One can conclude from this that the presidential votes, like those in the EU referendum, were not entirely up and down. But hey, US officials helped real Nazis overthrow the government in Kiev in 2014, so they’re old school when it comes to such ridiculous dealings in this corner of Europe. I don’t know if Americans were involved in these suspicious elections in Moldova, but US preferences are no secret. And these preferences are, of course, accompanied by ideologically doctrinal, anti-Russian winks. No objection allowed. As we also see in Georgia, where an overwhelming majority voted to remain in late October, well, rather than joining the EU’s kamikaze mission to open a second front against Russia, the Georgian may instead lead a Western-backed coup against the legally elected government.

Back in Berlin, it can be said that overall, American behavior towards its EU ally has been terrible. Calling for the destruction of an ally’s critical infrastructure – Nordstream – and then actually bombing it, and then lying cowardly about it and expecting the victims to swallow those lies by literally rubbing their face with this deception – what are the words for such behavior? Treacherous, wicked, arrogant, violent, inept, stupid? You choose. But no matter how many you choose, don’t forget about the silly things. Because Washington needs a healthy European ally. Joe Biden may not have thought so, if his actions can be attributed to it, but without a healthy Europe, who is the United States? Canada, Japan, South Korea, Israel and Australia. That’s it. Compare this to the number of countries that are BRICS members or are demanding to join. And make no mistake, Washington caused the collapse of Europe. This comes after the start of a disastrous proxy adventure in Ukraine that left the Western defense sector’s closets almost empty.

When photos of the effects of the Nordstream explosion at sea first emerged, Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski tweeted: “Thank you, America.” Thank you that nothing is more like it. Thank you for robbing us, he should have said. And when the history of this shameful and disgusting episode begins to be written, it will be clearly recorded as Washington’s first shot at the head of its closest ally and, ultimately, its own.