No one wants to know who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline

Denmark has shut down their investigation of who blew up the Russian pipeline without determining who caused it.

(AP) — Denmark on Monday joined Sweden in closing its investigation into the 2022 explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines, with authorities saying they concluded there was deliberate sabotage but “not the sufficient grounds” to pursue a criminal case.

Danish authorities said the probe “has been both complex and comprehensive.” Copenhagen police, which carried out the investigation jointly with the Danish security service, said they were not able to provide further comments.

The underwater detonations on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany, occurred in international waters but within Swedish and Danish economic zones. Sweden earlier said that a state actor was the most likely culprit.

“Nobody really wants to clear it up.”
- Swedish diplomat Hans Blix

Sweden had earlier shut down their investigation, without determining who caused it.

Public prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist from the Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement that “Swedish jurisdiction does not apply.”

The probe’s primary purpose was “to establish whether Swedish citizens were involved” and whether Sweden somehow was used to carry out the detonations, thereby putting the Scandinavian country at risk, the authority said.

This isn't to say that no evidence was uncovered. It's more of a case that no one wants to know the truth.

Last year, Germany told the UN Security Council it had found traces of subsea explosives on a sailing yacht that may have been used to transport the explosives, and that trained divers might have attached the explosives to the pipelines.

Funny how this didn't get more coverage. Something else that didn't get much coverage is this.

The United States knew in advance about the impending attacks on the Nord Stream pipeline but did not step in to prevent them, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski revealed today.

In September 2022, Sikorski was not yet foreign minister but was a member of the European Parliament. Back then, he insinuated that Washington was complicit in the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline.

Sikorski tweeted a photo from the scene of the accident at the time and signed it with "Thank you, USA."

Yes. Thank you USA. America doesn't think the terrorist attack needs to be investigated either.
So far Poland has resisted any probe of the attack.

“If Russia invades … there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it … I promise you we will be able to do it.” - Biden 2022

Make no mistake, this act of terrorism comes at a huge price.

Euronews called Germany “the world’s worst performing major developed country, with both the International Monetary Fund and European Union expecting it to shrink this year.”
...Sarah Miller, who has spent four decades writing for and editing the best of America’s oil and gas magazines — she now blogs on Medium—has depicted these days as “desperate times, especially for German and some European companies facing inflated energy bills and ongoing and possible entrenched inflation at home.” Germany is at risk, she told me this week in an email, “of losing a big part of the industrial base that has been key to its continued industrial strength and political clout within the EU over the last few decades. This industrial base is also emotionally important to the Germans — that goes especially for cars and chemicals — making it a huge political issue.”

“It’s interesting,” Miller said, “that what everybody fears most — from Germany to China and lots of places in between — is a repeat of the deindustrialization, financialization, and economic hollowing out that the US experienced over the last decades. America is a cautionary tale. It’s pretty pathetic when you think about it that way.”

Share
up
17 users have voted.

Comments

up
12 users have voted.
Lookout's picture

How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

Did you hear The Russian UN ambassador discussing the story?
Nord Stream Investigation Sabotaged - Dmitry Polyanskiy, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

up
10 users have voted.

“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

Cassiodorus's picture

It's like the Alexes say in one of those "The Duran" broadcasts. If the identity of that broadcast comes to me, I will post a link. The international order has been replaced by an order in which Europe abases itself before the US (in this case, that involves buying natural gas from the US at exorbitant prices). The rest of the world, meanwhile, is slowly moving away from the US and toward China, now the world's leading trade partner.

Russia, meanwhile, is handicapped -- NOT by sanctions -- but by its own isolationism. The Russian economy is booming because the sanctions force its oligarchs to invest in it, but is restrained by the fact that it's hard to get into Russia to be a guest worker. They, in short, have a labor shortage.

Given this reality, it's no wonder nobody wants to know who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. The US said "no, you can't find out," and the rest of Europe said "yes, sir." The Russians, of course, didn't do it. The Russians like trade for the profit it brings, but are uninterested in interfering in the rest of the world's politics. Europe's neoliberal elites pissed Russia off, and their former colonies are deserting them (see e.g. Niger), so if Team Biden says "jump," they jump. If Team Biden says "don't investigate," they don't investigate.

up
13 users have voted.

“The loyal Left cannot act decisively. Their devotion to the system is a built-in kill switch limiting dissent.” - Richard Moser

@Cassiodorus Screenshot 2024-03-24 124259.png

up
8 users have voted.
TheOtherMaven's picture

@Cassiodorus

and into partnership with China - which is precisely the US chickenhawk neocons' worst fear, and precisely what their insanely misguided policies are leading to.

We are deep into the Crazy Years - crazier than Heinlein ever imagined.

up
16 users have voted.

There is no justice. There can be no peace.

snoopydawg's picture

@TheOtherMaven

but Iran too and possibly both Russia and China have made some type of deal with Yemen. Yemen might join BRICS this October.

Our foreign policy is being driven by Thelma and Louise and they can see the cliff coming, but no one will step on the brakes!

up
11 users have voted.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt

QMS's picture

@TheOtherMaven

keeps backfiring as they run over their own feet

up
10 users have voted.

question everything

@TheOtherMaven that it's hard to remember anything else.
I think the tipping point was 2001. Since then we've been on an uninterrupted streak of failures, and zero consequences for those that cause the failures.

up
11 users have voted.

@gjohnsit The U.S.–China Relations Act of 2000 sure didn't do us working stiffs any favors. 5 million+ manufacturing jobs have left our shores for theirs in the interim.

up
9 users have voted.

@gjohnsit

for the people of the world but a spectacular windfall of profits for the military industrial complex. And the more they profit, the more they control what happens next. We have built an addictive disaster, a crisis that creates a need for itself.

up
5 users have voted.