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The secretary of state says it’s an opportunity to remove Europe’s dependency on Russian energy
Originally published by AntiWar
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that the attacks on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that connect Russia to Germany offer a “tremendous opportunity” to end Europe’s dependency on Russian energy.
“It’s a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy and thus to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs,” Blinken said at a joint press conference with Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly.
“That’s very significant and that offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come,” Blinken added.
According to @SecBlinken, the Nord Stream pipeline bombing “offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come.” Too bad that this tremendous opportunity for DC bureaucrats will come at the expense of everyone else, especially this coming winter. pic.twitter.com/T2eacQUuBF
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) October 1, 2022
Blinken made the comments when asked what the US and Canada are doing to ease Europe’s energy crisis in the wake of the Nord Stream sabotage. Blinken said that Washington had been working for some time to provide Europe with more energy, and as a result, the US is now Europe’s biggest supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
“And we’re now the leading supplier of LNG to Europe to help compensate for any gas or oil that it’s losing as a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine,” Blinken said.
Over the years, the US worked hard to oppose Nord Stream 2 by imposing sanctions but failed to stop its construction. The project was paused by Berlin on February 22 after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into the Donbas, an order that preceded the February 24 invasion.
There was always a chance Nord Stream 2 could be brought online if relations between Europe and Russia thawed, but now the damage could be irreparable. Russia recently stopped delivering gas through Nord Stream 1 as a result of Western sanctions.
At this point, it’s not clear who was behind the attacks on Nord Stream, but the US certainly has a motive. On Friday, Putin blamed the “Anglo-Saxons” for the incident, appearing to point the finger at the US and its allies.
“Sanctions are not enough for Anglo-Saxons. They have turned to sabotage, it’s unbelievable, but true, having organized explosions on the international gas pipelines of the Nord Stream,” the Russian leader said during a ceremony for the annexation of four Ukrainian territories.
The US has rejected the claim that it was behind the attack, and Western media is hinting that Russia was responsible even though the pipelines are mainly owned by Gazprom, Russia’s state gas company.
The Associated Press called the claim that the US was involved a “baseless conspiracy theory” that was being pushed by the Kremlin and Russian state media. But one of the most significant allegations came from Radek Sikorski, a former Polish Foreign Minister and current Member of European Parliament. Sikorski thanked the US for the incident on Twitter in a since-deleted tweet, which was not mentioned in the AP story.
The AP also left out the context that the US had been trying to stop Nord Stream 2 from being constructed through sanctions and pressure on the German government.
While neither Nord Stream 1 nor Nord Stream 2 were delivering gas to Europe at the time of the sabotage, both pipelines were holding gas under pressure. The leaks that were caused by explosions resulted in what could amount to the largest-ever single release of methane gas. The leaks were discovered last Tuesday, and Danish authorities said the Nord Stream 2 finally stopped leaking on Saturday while the Nord Stream 1 stopped on Sunday.
Be a shame if some of those American LNG tankers blew up crossing the Atlantic.
We know Russia doesn’t do these kind of tactics. Remember when Turkey shot down a Russian jet, we all waited for retaliation. We got nothing.
It would be cool to see some of those tankers getting destroyed though, I think its fair game.
Nice opportunity to move production from Germany. Well, Ursula and Ofaf hate Russians anyway. So why would they need gas and factories? Let them have factories in India, Brazil, Bangladesh and China.
Why would Germans rather not cut firewood? Why would you go to work? Why shouldn’t they be on welfare?
Blinkers remarks prove that the US deep state carried out the attacks on the gas pipelines.
The US bombing of Nord Stream is proof that they are in the game and are perfectly leading the game. Russia seems to me to be just making big speeches and nothing more.
A tremendous opportunity for an ecological tragedy and an economical disaster. Way to go indeed!
Russia should pay illegal Mexicans to blow up American railways and power stations. American children should have the full, authentic Ukraine Experience.
They don’t immigrate much from Mexico these days. Mostly Central America. Things getting better in Mexico, worse in America.
Retarded suggestion, as it would unify America against Russia. Much more intelligent would be to split the divides that are already there, ie Democrat vs Republican, white men vs everybody else.
Also Crunge is Right That México is getting better. Reason: all the retired are fleeing to Mexico to live off of the strong dollar from afar, minus the high costs and criminal Chaos that spreads from the cities outward.
This blinken guy looks like he aged about 30 years since he took his sec of state job 2 years ago.
All these people seem to age fast. Look at how Ms. Van der Leyen has aged. It must be the result of lies violating their own consciences.
US LNG that’s to expensive to warm homes with, and to enable Europe’s industry to remain competitive with, has only propaganda value.
The same goes for all that switching to “renewables” nonsense; not enough, and way to expensive.
And then this “to take away from Vladimir Putin the weaponization of energy as a means of advancing his imperial designs”
The man’s “imperial designs” don’t reach further than protecting the lives of ethnic Russians in neighboring former Soviet states and in Russia itself.
And they aren’t “taking away” anything anyway, because Russia now simply sells its fossil fuels to non-western countries, at a much increased profit.
The only thing they’re “taking away” (or better; stealing) is western Europe’s prosperity.
This Blinken is a delusional moron, like the rest of those criminals that cheated their way into the white house.
Why does Europe need industry? Is it not enough if he has a social benefit? Let the Chinese and Indians work
You are right all the way.
Tremendous opportunity to ensure that Ukraine does not cut the gas flow to Germany via Hungary, so that Orban gets his free gas and keeps FI+SWE out of NATO.
First you create a problem, then you offer yourself as a solution. First you destroy the North Stream, then you offer to sell liquefied methane at tenfold the price; then, with the money earned, Washington can finance and arm Ukraine by charging a high price to Europe.
I think Orban pop the pipes to able to get more gas to Hungary via Germany’s blasted pipe , so that Orban gets his free gas and keeps FI+SWE out of NATO.
Who will fuck my holes with all alpha faggots dead?…. 😭😭😭😭😭 Even my twinkie left me. I am all alone….
My holes are good. It is like fucking a kebab. 💙💛💙💛💙💛🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
I stand 🖕 with Ukrainia
Tremendous opportunity US can sell very expensive gas for EU .US and UK has been planning to destroys Russia Ukraine EU and China even EU because EU because EU is competitor of US and UK trade.
anyone here thinking that negotiations between R and U are better way to stop this conflict? Cancel this nonsense referenda. Split everything in half including Crimea and stop the war. People should move voluntarily to the preferred country. I don’t think Ukraine would have any problem to be neutral providing they can join the EU in the future. Russia will have to pay massive reparation to Ukraine – still better then Russia becoming next North Korea…