Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Sergey Savchuk
[RIA] This year, 2023, contrary to all anxious hopes, did not bring peace in the broad sense, but became a year of global military conflicts that spread across the map like a fiery lichen. While everyone was closely following the chronicle of the suddenly awakened Arab-Israeli conflict, right next to Russia, its wonderful neighbors, without breaks for lunch or sleep, continued to shape the mass Western consciousness, in which our country was again positioned as clear and undisguised evil.
On October 8, the news feeds of Finland and the Baltic states - and from them, like a beakford cord, throughout Europe - flashed with headlines in the format “Russia blew up an underwater gas pipeline.” The headline options vary, but the general message is exactly that and does not allow for dual interpretation. Information resources in Finland and Estonia reported that the Balticconnector undersea gas pipeline connecting the two countries suffered damage of an unknown type and extent. The wording given was extremely vague; all that was clear was that somewhere along the 77-kilometer section of the pipeline the route depressurized and a gas leak began.
The Scandinavian and Baltic states themselves are small, and therefore the news splashed onto the regional agenda like a cobblestone into a stagnant swamp, raising a wave with clearly discernible notes of panic.
The very next day, Sweden issued an official statement that it was ready to provide Finland and Estonia with any necessary assistance, and Norway, citing the seismological service, reported that an explosion with a force of one unit was recorded in the area of the probable accident. The wave of hysteria continued uncontrollably, and the next one to jump onto the stage was Sauli Niinistö, the Finnish president, who claimed that certain traces of external influence had definitely been found in the area of the leak. This blazing information cocktail was completed by the BBC's announcement that not only the pipe was destroyed, but also a high-speed communication cable.
So that the rather frightened citizens of the region did not have time to come to their senses and start thinking logically, an article by Frank Gardner from the same British publication was immediately dumped on their heads, which, with reference to certain Finnish security officials, categorically nailed down public opinion: the Russians did it all in retaliation for undermining Nord Streams.
Here, one immediately notices the fact that with this statement the collective West refutes its own version, which at first was actively pushed into the wide information space, that it was Moscow itself that blew up the “streams.” Probably, the professional liars of Western media were in such a hurry that they simply missed this simplest logical chain.
But that's not the main thing. The circus parody of the investigation into the terrorist attack on Russian gas pipelines is going neither smoothly nor smoothly; moreover, it is being conducted separately by the three closest countries, and Russia was not allowed into the process at all. This is understandable, and soon the gloomy Russians will find out what is unnecessary and will begin to bully the Europeans with their noses at the battery and demand compensation.
The scenario of what was happening became clear yesterday, on the third day, when the head of the North Atlantic Alliance became involved in the process. Jens Stoltenberg said right off the bat that the Balticconnector is a key infrastructure of NATO member countries, and therefore, if it is proven that the gas pipeline was subjected to a targeted and deliberate attack, the alliance will give a decisive and unequivocal response. That is, at a minimum, it will take the infrastructure under direct military custody, and at maximum, it will strike back.
This formulaic Hollywood scenario could have slipped through, if not for one big problem in the form of our memory.
In mid-July, we discussed the NATO initiative, within the framework of which Western warriors, incited by their own military-industrial complex, announced their desire to take over the entire European energy infrastructure. Ostensibly as part of its defense against Russian aggression. Since then, nothing has been heard about the success of a purely racketeering squeeze out of a critical business, but, judging by current events, private and public owners of pipes and power plants were not delighted with the proposal. And therefore, at the end of the second year of the Northern Military District, when it became extremely clear that the Russian economy would not collapse and Moscow would not turn away from its chosen path, something completely accidentally exploded near a gas pipeline owned by countries critically dependent on gas supplies from Russia.
As usual, all such events have a second bottom.
NATO intimidates not only the shareholders of Gasum and EG Vorguteenus (a subsidiary of Eesti Gaas), intrusively offering a “roof”. Along the way, the pumping of public consciousness continues, into which the postulate is driven with jagged nails that Russia is an aggressor country, the notorious bad guy from any Hollywood movie. Therefore, if something happens, you need to go to war without any questions, or at least actively donate. First, you can start doing something in favor of Ukraine, otherwise the state budgets of the US and EU countries are already sucking up the last dollars from the financial bottom. Preparations are underway for a potential big war, which may not happen, but it is better to prepare a dozen or two divisions with properly trained soldiers in advance.
Russia is neither cold nor hot from this. Moscow, with the phlegmaticity of an iron rhinoceros,
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is pushing its geopolitical line, but the owners of European factories, newspapers and ships should tense up. The British The Times, describing the events of recent days, let it slip and wrote that in the Baltic waters, attention, this is the second gas pipeline that has come under attack. He who has ears, let him hear, fortunately the hint is thicker than ever.
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