Who Sabotaged Nordstream 2?
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 3 Oct 2022
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service
I Agree with Jan Oberg
30 Sep 2022 – Dr. Jan Oberg, co-founder and leader of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, wrote a really excellent article on the question of who sabotaged Nordstream 2. In it, he points out that Russia had no motive for sabotaging Nordstream 2. If the Russians had wanted to stop the flow of natural gas through the pipeline, they could have simply turned it off at the Russian end. Here is the link to Dr. Oberg’s fine article.
And here is a link to other articles making the same point.
Both Joe Biden and Victoria Nuland Said the US Was Going to Do It
In February, 2022, both Joe Biden and his Under-Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland, said that if Russia should invade Ukraine, there would be no Nordstream 2. Here is a link to some articles that make this point.
The United States Had a Motive
The United States had a motive for sabotaging Nordstream 2, namely to weaken Russia by reducing its income from the sale of natural gas. Washington’s aim throughout the Ukraine war has been to weaken Russia.
US Interference with Other Countries
If the US is guilty of sabotaging Nordstream 2, it is one more example of US interference in the affairs of other countries. Other examples are too numerous to list. The methods used include regime change, assassinations of politicians, unilateral sanctions, arms transfers, war, and so on.
A Crime against the Environment
The methane bubbling up to the surface from the sabotaged pipeline is entering our earth’s atmosphere. Methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas. Although it has a shorter lifetime in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, while it remains there, methane is twenty times as powerful.
We Must Rapidly End Our Dependence on Fossil Fuels
A point that no one seems to mention in connection with the sabotaging of Nordstream 2, is that we must rapidly end our dependence on all fossil fuels, if we are to have a chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change.
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D., who was part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for their work in organizing the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, is a member of the TRANSCEND Network and Associate Professor Emeritus at the H.C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is chairman of both the Danish National Pugwash Group and the Danish Peace Academy and received his training in theoretical physics and theoretical chemistry at M.I.T., the University of Chicago and the University of London. He is the author of numerous books and articles both on scientific topics and on broader social questions. His most recent books are Information Theory and Evolution and Civilization’s Crisis in the 21st Century (pdf). Website: https://www.johnavery.info/
Tags: Biden, Energy, European Union, Gas, Hegemony, Imperialism, Nordstream 2, Russia, US empire, Ukraine, Victoria Nuland
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