Nord Stream and the mysterious leak - a brief story of a series of coincidences.
On February 7, 2022, Brandon welcomed the he German chancellor Olaf Scholz in the White House. After trading politenesses, Brandon said that the U.S. and Germany are "working in lockstep to further deter Russian aggression in Europe and address the challenges opposed by China and promote stability in the Western Balkans“. Both, Brandon and Scholz avoided the topic of the pipeline, but the reporters kept asking, and so Brandon has made the following statement: "If Russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the -- the border of Ukraine again, then there will be -- there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2“.
When asked how this would be achieved, Brandon answered: "We will -- I promise you -- we will be able to do it."
On September 26, 2022 a pressure decrease in Nord Stream 2 was reported by the media, the pressure in the undersea pipeline dropped from 105 to 7 bar overnight. The media claims this information is an official statement of the Nord Stream 2 operator.
(Personally, I could not find the official statement of the Nord Stream 2 operator online or in any other written form, except for the statement in the media.)
Few hours later the operators were supposed to have localised a leak that caused the pressure drop in the Nord Stream 2. The leak is in the Baltic Sea southeast of the Danish island of Bornholm.
On August 3, 2022, a major German media broadcaster NDR reported1 about the US Navy „showing the flag in the eastern Baltic Sea“: „A total of 4,000 US soldiers, helicopter pilots, naval infantrymen, doctors, strategists are on their way east. At around 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning, the unit has already passed the Danish island of Bornholm, then the Americans switch off their automatic ship identification systems (AIS) and can no longer be located without further ado.“ (Translated with deepL.com)
The excuse for those „trainings“? Controlled escalation. (I’m not a soldier or a war strategist, maybe someone cares to explain how this is done using major war ships?)
According to the author of the article the USS Kearsarge was ordered back and forth, and this should generate a great strategic benefit - the unpredictability: „Only a few weeks ago, the USS Kearsarge was on a visit to Stockholm, was then ordered to the Mediterranean, but turned around last week to return to the Baltic Sea. "It's part of the US Navy's new strategy," Bruns said. "Americans want to be less predictable." That means they want to show that they can and will react at any time if a potential threat arises somewhere.“ (Translated with Google translator).
(I’m still not a war strategist, but I suppose it's the same kind of strategy, girls apply to guys when they leave them in the dark about whether or not they are going to show up for the date, right?)
The author also says that the Americans will depart a week later and seek new adventures in the unknown: „The USS Kearsarge and its formation will apparently first visit the Finnish capital Helsinki, in order to then exercise together with the Finnish Navy. The US association will leave the Baltic Sea again next week, that's the plan so far. The destination after that: unknown.“ (Translated with the Google translator)
Looks like they didn’t leave, or they came back. No wonder, we have beautiful women, great beer, fast cars and motorways without speed limit…
Anyway.
On September 24, 2022, a local German newspaper2 from Schleswig-Holstein writes an interesting report about the movements of the NATO forces in the Baltic Sea in the so called Fehmarn Belt.
„On Thursday morning, a fleet of the US Navy passed Fehmarn. The flagship USS Kearsarge was the largest warship.
Russian nuclear submarines and NATO units in the Fehmarn Belt.
Ships heading west again.
40 helicopters and fighter planes on board.“ (Translated with deepL.com)
The author of the article explains the reason for the NATO manoeuvres in the Baltic Sea: „Fehmarn - At the latest with the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine, which began in February, and the resulting change in security policy with the NATO membership applications of Finland and Sweden, the Baltic Sea has become a deployment area for the naval forces of Russia and NATO. This is well reflected in the increasing number of warships that have passed through the Fehmarn Belt in recent months. This applies to Russian nuclear submarines as well as to NATO units. On Thursday morning, a fleet of the US Navy passed through Fehmarn.“ (Translated with deepL.com)
And then: „The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, accompanied by the landing ships USS Arlington and USS Gunston Hall, was on its way west on Wednesday morning. Previously, the ships were part of US units participating in NATO manoeuvres and calling at numerous ports in Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States.“
Another coincidence happened today, September 27, 2022, the Norwegian NORSAR agency3 reported: „NORSAR has registered signals from two explosions. A smaller explosion on the night of Monday, followed by a more powerful explosion on Monday evening.“ (Translated with google translator).
„Signals from NORSAR's seismic station in Innlandet, the Swedish station in Hagfors and a Finnish station located in Sysmä show that there have been two subsequent explosions at the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. These transport gas from Russia to Europe. The incidents were registered on the night of Monday, at 02.03, and Monday evening, at 19.03. The latter explosion was stronger than the first and is measured to have a strength of 2.2 (estimated yield approx. 700 kg).“ (Translated with the google translator).
The data about the explosion:
The Baltic Sea
Date/time: 2022-09-26 19:03
Position: 55,025, 15,798
Strength: 2.2
Depth: 0 km
Also, yesterday, September. 26,2022, the operator of Nord Stream 1 reported4: „26. September 2022 | Zug, Switzerland | Tonight, the dispatchers of the Nord Stream 1 control center registered a pressure drop on both strings of the gas pipeline. The reasons are being investigated.“ (Reference in my article from yesterday Nord Stream 2 - the pipeline that became a political tool.)
Today, September 27, 2022, the mainstream media enjoys the dramatic events in the Baltic Sea. The British Guardian reports about „Fears of sabotage as gas pours into Baltic from Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines“. According to our British quality media: “A seismograph on the Danish island of Bornholm, near where the leaks occurred, twice recorded spikes on Monday, the day on which the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines underwent dramatic falls in pressure, the German geological research centre GFZ said.“
The Guardian published a video supposedly recorded by the Danish military showing an area of an approximately one kilometre ( approx. 0.62 miles) wide gas leak bubbling on the sea surface.
Björn Lund, director of the Swedish National Seismic Network: „You can clearly see how the waves bounce from the bottom to the surface. There is no doubt that it was a blast. We even had a station in Gnosjö that picked this up.“
So the big question is: who blew up our pipelines? Was Brandon’s statement, he made on February 7, 2022 an empty threat?
Did the Russians sabotage the pipelines, and were they paid with Bitcoin? ;)
Please note, that all opinions expressed above are of my neighbour’s dog ;).
He is also asking: while the Russian gas floods the Baltic Sea, how is our banking system doing today?
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/US-Navy-zeigt-Flagge-in-der-oestlichen-Ostsee,usnavy102.html
https://www.kreiszeitung.de/lokales/schleswig-holstein/fehmarn/grosser-flottenverband-der-us-navy-passiert-fehmarnbelt-91809308.html
https://www.jordskjelv.no/meldinger/eksplosjoner-registrert-ved-gassledningene-nord-stream-i-ostersjoen
https://www.nord-stream.com/de/presse-info/pressemitteilungen/pressure-drop-on-both-strings-of-the-gas-pipeline-526/