So Then Racket Is Exposed

All behind closed doors all of this is agreed to before any moves in the game are played.

OPEC+ gets to make a big (and meaningless) PR play by cutting production to jack the price back closer to 100 deflated US dollars a barrel.

Biden then gets to make a big (and meaningless) PR play by yammering about "reconsidering relations" with Saudi Arabia and threatening to move anti-aircraft systems from Saudi Arabia to Ukraine.

The Saudis then get to play the PR card by publicly snubbing Biden and gets to bank "Street cred" standing up to the bullying Americans.

Then while the world looks at the public plays with the left hand the Saudis right hand gives Biden $400 million for his pet "Let's drive the world into depression and war" project.

In the end OPEC+ gets the price of oil back up, Biden get his payoff for the war, and whatever graft Biden Inc. can pull off the top.

And the payoff for Americans? We get to finance the scam through inflation and fraud with the added bonus of getting to watch our cities turn into kill zones, homeless camps and ash heaps.

 

Destroying Their Own Narrative.

 The Ukrainian attack on the Russian bridge connecting to the Crimean peninsula should pretty much lay to rest any further bullshit about the Russians being the ones who blew up the Nordstream pipelines.

The attack on the bridge may be a logistical set back for the Russians but it hardly qualifies as the total disaster it's being portrayed as. The Russians still control the entire north shore of the Sea of Azov that constitutes the land bridge to the Crimean peninsula. That's why the fighting for Mariupol was so intense and protracted.

With Putin having already announced a partial mobilization and satellite imagery showing strategic bomber forces being moved to more forward bases, unless sainer heads prevail this war is far from over.

The bombing of the pipelines and now the bridge is also likely to stir Russian patriotism and add to the lines at the recruiting stations.

The last time the Russians surrendered was in 1918 and that only came about because Russia was prostrate from the chaos of revolution and those losses were quickly reversed after the German capitulation in the west. Throughout WWII there were advances and reversals '43, '44 and early '45. I'd say there is about a zero chance of them giving up anytime soon.

Propaganda, Bullshit or Speculation

 If a single word of Blinkin's press conference declaring that the bombing of the Nordstrom pipeline as an opportunity was true he would have proposed at the same time:

1. Diplomatic initiative to move forward on the long proposed natural gas line from the southern Persian Gulf, thru Iraq and Syria to under water to Greece and Italy.

2. Diplomatic initiatives to stabilize Libya to stop the flow of refugees and increase the flow of natural gas and oil thru existing pipelines.

3. Temporary suspension of restriction on non US flagged vessels transporting LNG and refined oil products from US port to US port.

4. Government subsidies for the design and construction of new LNG tankers in US shipyards. To help feed both the US, European and global markets.

None of that will happen however because Davos doesn't want it to happen. Why? Because they want to kill off 90% of global populations. Covid was the first attempt, a test run for control systems. Next one is going to be another manufactured disease combined with massive food and energy shortages.

Tactically blowing up Nordstream was just about taking a major card out of Putin's hand. Strategically it was about Davos signaling that no more pipelines will be built at all.

But these elitist rich fools can't conceive that the chaos they have set in motion can quickly slip out of control and into the madness and blood on a pattern of 1789 in Paris.

OR...it could have been done by some existing oil and ng producer or producers seeking to maximise their own sales price globally and in Western Europe especially.

Beyond that I have yet to see any announcements as to what ships were in the area, who they belonged to and what if any moon pool deep dive or ROV capabilities they have. Neither has there been any public announcement who has been awarded an inspection contract by either Russia, Germany or any of the consortium members who own the pipeline.

SO UNTIL FURTHER SUCH INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE EVERYTHING ANYBODY SAYS AS TO ACTIONS OR MOTIVATIONS, INCLUDING THIS AUTHOR, IS EITHER PROPAGANDA BULLSHIT OR PURE SPECULATION.