Sabotage? - Money Morning Australia
According to the Swedish National Seismic Network, the readings registered by their seismographs came from ‘two clear explosions’.
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According to the Swedish National Seismic Network, the readings registered by their seismographs came from ‘two clear explosions’.
This week’s news read like the opening chapter of a Tom Clancy novel — three near-simultaneous explosions blew up not just one but two Russian gas pipelines running under the Baltic Sea to Germany.
While the international press treats the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines as a news item, we analyze it as an act of war against Germany and the European Union. Indeed, the three gas supply routes to Western Europe have been cut off simultaneously, while at the same time a new gas pipeline has been opened to Poland.
The new Greece-Bulgaria pipeline and Baltic Pipe will allow most of Eastern and Northern Europe to move away from Russian gas and remove a key piece of Putin's leverage..
Fifteen countries want a Europe-wide cap but ahead of an EU summit there is little prospect of unity.