After “parties not-so-unknown” bombed the Nordstream gas pipeline, Anthony Blinken celebrated the “tremendous opportunity.”
He assumed the whole Nordstream operation was out of commission. That
would have given US producers the chance to make billions of dollars
robbing Europe blind selling overpriced gas.
But Blinken may have celebrated too soon. According to Bloomberg News:
After
the suspected sabotage of the network last week in a series of
explosions, Gazprom said on Monday three of the lines were affected and
one wasn’t. The gas giant has lowered pressure on the unaffected line B
of Nord Stream 2 to inspect the link for damage and potential leaks, it
said in a statement on its Telegram account.
An Unz Review commenter explained:
“The vaunted US Navy screwed up. In the murky depths of the Baltic Sea they planted their explosives to blow up the ***FOUR*** pipes
of the NS 1 & NS2 gas pipelines. (You didn’t know there were four
pipes, did you? Neither did I.) But they appear to have screwed up and
placed two of the explosive packages on one of the NS2 pipes — line A —
leaving the other pipe — line B — with no explosive charge, and
subsequently ***NO DAMAGE***. Line B is therefore ***READY TO GO*** with
a capacity of 27.5 billion cubic meters per year … which for comparison
is 50% of total capacity of Nordstream 1, which as you may recall was
recently reduced to 20% capacity before being shut down completely.
(2.75 times the capacity of the newly-opened Norway-to-Poland gas
pipeline).”
So
if Germany gets annoyed at the arrogant American terrorists’ attempt to
loot and wreck their economy, all the Germans have to do is cancel
their sanctions on Russia and ask Putin to turn on the spigot, which
could cause NATO to quickly unravel. If that happens, the Nordstream
terror attack will turn out to be one of the worst own goals in
strategic history.
Even
if this worst-case scenario (from the US perspective) fails to quickly
materialize, the botched Nordstream bombing could rebound disastrously
against the perpetrators. Cutting Germany’s Russian gas lifeline and
replacing it with inadequate quantities of overpriced US gas may have
sounded like a good idea in the short term, since it will butress the
dollar against the euro and keep the EU tethered to its US vassal
status, cut off from the vast resources of Russia. But over the medium
term, as non-Western nations continue to gain ever-greater shares of
global GDP while the West declines, sabotaging the economy of your
biggest vassal seems self-defeating, even in the unlikely event that the
Europeans never decide to push back.
The
Nordstream terror fiasco takes its place in a long series of stunningly
stupid moves by the world’s erstwhile hegemon. The US could have
thrived in the post-Cold-War environment by making win-win deals with
all major nations and civilizations. Instead, as Putin observed in last week’s speech,
it has managed to alienate most of the world with its psychopathic
arrogance and blood-splattering vandalism. By looting Russia and pushing
NATO eastward in the 1990s, launching a false flag war on Islam in
2001, and more recently alienating Russia, China, Iran, and the whole
Islamic world simultaneously, the strategic geniuses running America’s
national security state seem to be deliberately creating the mother of
all anti-Western coalitions.
Does the Empire harbor a secret death wish? Is unconscious guilt (at betraying the American Republic
and mass murdering millions abroad) driving the national security brain
trust to self-destruct? Maybe. But first let’s consider two other
explanations, one obvious, the other conspiratorial.
First
the obvious one: The permanent US national security state has been
absolutely corrupted by absolute power. When the Cold War ended and the
US emerged as a unipolar hegemon, the managers of empire started to
believe “We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.”
That’s hubris at best, psychosis at worst. They started to think they
could get away with just about anything. Such delusions of grandeur
unleashed a feeding frenzy among those who gorge themselves at the
military-industrial-complex trough. Corruption and incompetence danced
off together in a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop. Nobody had to
worry much about the real-world consequences of bad decisions, because
“we” lived in “our own reality” of apparent omnipotence.
But
US policy has been so conspicuously self-destructive that it’s hard not
to wonder whether it might be intentional. Could some hostile power
have taken over the American brain and driven the nation to
self-destruction, the way toxoplasmosis parasites take over the brains
of mice and make them fall in love with cats?
The
nation poised to gain the most from self-defeating US policies is
China. Whoever decided to export American manufacturing to China, then
waste more than $7 trillion fighting Muslims for no particular reason,
then pick a fight with Russia in Ukraine, might as well have been a
Chinese sleeper agent. Even the belated anti-China trade war launched in
2019, followed by the apparent COVID attack on Wuhan, were so insanely ineffective that they could easily have been scripted by a CCP version of Dr. Fu Manchu.
But
there is no evidence that the CCP is secretly running US foreign
policy. If there is a toxoplasmosis type parasite steering Uncle Sam’s
brain, it would be the Zionist neocons. These people are drunk on Leo
Strauss’s self-styled philosophy of evil. The whole notion of win-win
give-and-take diplomacy and negotiation is foreign to them. They never
met an act of extreme imperial chutzpah they didn’t like. From 9/11 and
the wars it was designed to spark, to the 2014 de facto declaration of
war on Russia through the coup in Kiev, to the late autumn 2019 COVID
attack on Wuhan and Qom, to the recent blundering attempt to take
Nordstream permanently off-line, the neocons keep doing insane things
ostensibly designed to strengthen the US empire, but covertly
undermining it.
Are
the Zio-cons scheming to destroy the US and then dominate the New World
Order that arises from its ashes? Or are they merely so unhinged and
fanatical in their pro-US-imperial hubris that they keep doing insanely
counterproductive things?
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