22A040 Cui Bono? by Jim Davies, 10/4/2022

It's a pretty good way to start any detecting task, whether in fiction or reality: find out who benefits. That isn't proof of culpability, but it gives one somewhere to begin. Sherlock would surely concur.

So it is with the sabotage of NordStream. It's a cluster of gas pipelines from Russia to Germany, under the Baltic; a neat, simple way to bring a desired product from producer to customer. But at the end of September, someone detonated explosives on all four, close to the Danish island of Bornholm and to the South coast of Sweden. Sea water is invading the pipes and unless repairs can be done very quickly, they will be irreparably corroded.

In that case the labors of thousands of engineers and designers will be spoiled and the large expense laid out for the project will be wasted. Fuel will still flow, after the squabbling governments near Ukraine have quit their quarrels, but in tubes across or beneath the soil of several intermediate countries, the rulers of which all expect their cut. So, Whodunnit?

Hard to see how Russia might benefit. GazProm is the big producer of the gas, and these pipelines help deliver their product quickly, so their destruction does the opposite. It's true that being less able to deliver the product its world price might increase, bringing about similar profits, and if Russians wanted for that or other reasons to stop deliveries they could very easily turn off the faucet; but to blow up the pipes would spoil deliveries in future years, limiting options. That makes no sense at all.

Germany is the main buyer, though I understand some of the gas may be sold on to buyers elsewhere; what benefit could come to these customers? None that I can see. The government of Germany might be different; supposedly those people want currently to embargo deliveries of Russian fuel so as to induce the RusGov to end its war on Ukraine, as desired by the USGov. But the GerGov can do (and has done) that very easily, by prohibiting the importation. Why blow up the pipe and, again, queer the pitch for all future years?

Governments of Poland and others lying between vendor and customer might possibly derive a benefit, especially if they have must-use pipelines crossing their tax farms. That would be like one Mafia gang slashing the truck tires of a rival outfit. They would also be hurting the vendor (Russia) in accordance with the wishes of the NATO puppet-masters in D.C., and in return for other goodies from the USGov not yet revealed. So they stay on the suspect list, though one needs next to enquire whether they have the expertese to pull off the bombing.

Ukraine's government would gain a little by adding to the troubles of its present enemy in Moscow, but that too is a long way from the Baltic and it's a wee bit preoccupied at present. Keep 'em on the list, but not near the top.

That leaves 8% Joe, godfather of the Biden Gang who last February expressly threatened to close down Nordstream if Russia went ahead and invaded Ukraine - he emphaszed that it could be done. That did not deter the RusGov, but now that Hungary, Germany and some other EuroGovs are having serious second thoughts about refusing to buy Russian fuel as winter approaches, it could well be that he's executed that threat so as to make sure his NATO soldiers continue to obey - and so that US LNG sales to European buyers can increase.

Those benefits are strong, so I name the White House Dodderer as Prime Suspect. Mr Putin has done the same.

Whoever is the culprit, he or they deserve to be shunned by all decent people. These pipelines were designed and built with ingenuity and dedication, to bring benefit to millions of people associated with both vendor and customer, as honest trade always does; the saboteur has violently interfered with that trade, thereby spitting upon them all. He should be universally despised.

That will be the kind of consequence of any vicious actions in the coming Zero Government Society. But then, in the ZGS there won't be any governments to commit them.