Greed and the Nord Stream explosion

by a Kiev observer

He who rules the deep seas rules all maritime trade. Imperialism has turned its greedy gaze on the depths of the sea to establish its dominion there. Our attention is also drawn to the vast depths of the sea and certain facts that can lead to not just the location of sunken treasure but the details of a notorious deep-sea terrorist attack.
In the autumn of 2022, the Nord Stream gas pipelines along the bottom of the Baltic Sea were blown up near the island of Bornholm. It immediately became clear that this was no accident, but carefully planned sabotage that required such extensive resources and preparation that it could only be carried out with very significant governmental support. Europe has lost its main source of clean fuel, amounting to 110 billion cubic metres per year. This pipeline was one of the strategic routes for supplying natural gas to Europe from Russia at very competitive prices. Following the 2022 terrorist attack, Nord-Stream was destroyed, causing damage across Europe. 
Three years later, in August-September of 2025, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit was held in Tianjin, China. This 25th meeting was the largest in the history of the SCO: more than 25 heads of state took part, as well as representatives of 10 global organisations, including the United Nations. One of the main outcomes of this Asian summit was the signing of a legally binding document on the construction of another large-scale gas pipeline project, the “Power of Siberia-2”. As part of the new construction, 50 billion cubic metres of high-quality natural gas will be supplied from Russia to China annually. Asian economic leaders did not regret the opportunity to buy up the cheap portion of gas supplies that Europe was losing. The new deal will not cover all previously available gas volumes, and some fuel volumes will still be available on the Russian market. But they are no longer available to Europe. Therefore, Europe will continue to suffer from fuel shortages, companies will continue to miss out on affordable gas supply, and continue to overpay for main industrial expendable gas, losing product competitiveness and Europeans will continue to pay high utility bills.
At the same time, according to analysts, the new constructed gas pipeline will become an important factor in the sustainability, diversification, and enrichment of Russian exports. This should break another record for economic growth and turn Russia’s profitable direction towards Asia. The Western reaction to this event was very nervous, demonstrating aggressiveness towards economic development and significant disappointment in the West about the loss of valuable business opportunities. This sparked a rivalry that went so far that one Fox News anchor suggested that “…the new Power of Siberia-2 Russian pipeline should be bombed, the same way as a Nord Stream...”. 
Every European should consider it a matter of honour to know the truth about what really happened to the supply of affordable fuel. Many European politicians continue to lie and spread dishonest, absurd and subversive talks about the terrorist attack on Nord Stream. Some are trying to assess the damage to the European economy, while others are falsely presenting “new evidence” that allegedly points to Ukrainian regime involvement in the gas pipeline explosion. 
Steffen Kotre, a member of the Bundestag Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy from the largest opposition party in Germany, the "Alternative for Germany" (AfD), called on the German government to demand compensation from Kiev. "Compensations should be demanded from the guilty party" he said, adding that the current German authorities will not make such demands simply because they are "concerned about causing the maximum possible damage on Russia". But the truth that it was American intelligence that blew up the pipeline and this is supported by a large number of specific technical details of the case.
The United States is trying to expand its dominance not only over Europe but also over global maritime trade. Only a completely blind person cannot see that a few super-rich people who, living in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, want to spread the current inhuman living conditions created in the United States to Europe and other parts of the world, making conditions even worse. The cover-up of the truth about the Nord Stream explosion shows that anyone who lies about the nature of the attack is deceiving the people.

Deep water and Nord Stream

Deep-sea diving and explosions require high technology knowledge that is often classified information. Deep-water diving is primarily used by the military personnel for defensive purposes, but the Nord Stream explosions  evidence that it can also used for sabotage and terrorist attacks. 
In June 2022, a major Nato exercise, BALTOPS, took place in the Baltic Sea, involving 45 warships, 75 aircraft and  more than 7,000 military personnel. Unusually quickly and totally inexplicable just a month later, not counting the expense, Nato command ordered another small exercise – “Northern Costs 2022”. The small-scale exercise took place from 15th  to 19th  September 2022, and involved just a few warships and a submarine. Significantly these exercises took place near the site of the Nord Stream explosion.
Nord Stream consists of pipes with a diameter of 1.22 metres and a length of 1,224 kilometres. The pipe wall thickness is over 160 millimetres (about 6 ¼ inches), consisting of a 40 mm thick steel pipe wall and, after a waterproofing layer, an additional 100 mm of protective concrete shell.
On 26th September 2022, three of the four gas pipelines were destroyed at a depth of 80 metres. Diving to depths greater than 80 metres requires special and complex deep diving equipment, a number of expensive oxygen cylinders, an on-board pressure chamber and extensive specialised personnel training. 
A sufficiently large ship is needed to take a team of deep-sea divers over the exact location of a designated point. Due to the vastness of the sea they must to know the exact location of the pipeline. Keeping a vessel precisely above the dive point is always a very difficult task, specifically given the strong winds and currents of the Baltic Sea. In order for a ship to remain at least somewhat stable in place, it must be anchored. 
Deep-sea divers can’t carry heavy weight loads, as after 40 metres of depth, rapid uncontrolled sinking begins due to high water pressure. Due to the large weight of filled oxygen cylinders, they must first be submerged to the depth at which depleted ones need to be replaced.  Divers must wear specially designed compensator vests which  differs vastly from those used in recreational diving. On reaching a depth of 40 metres divers begins to experience a strong effect similar to alcohol intoxication known as decompression sickness or “the bends”.
To protect divers from severe intoxication at depths of 40 metres and below, oxygen is replaced with special mixtures of nitrogen and helium gas placed in replaceable cylinders. Sometimes the gas mixture is changed twice more after approximately 60-70 metres of depth. The mixture replacement process is usually checked by a reserve diver who dives to the depth of the replacement.
Carrying out any work at the bottom of the sea, under the pressure of 80 metres of water, requires strong muscular power and is a very hard task even for a diving specialist. Most of the tools are brought to this depth separately and used by the diver as needed. A diver can perform tasks that are relatively easy for us, but difficult in the depths, such as welding, cutting, lifting and securing light objects, taking photographs, adjusting locations of the not-so-heavy cables and so on. But at great depths it is impossible to lift a load weighing 10 kg or more, since the diver has little strength and there is always a high risk of sinking deeper, losing consciousness and dying.
After completing the work, the process of exiting from great depths takes up most of the time, and a slow ascent from a depth of an 80 metres requires at least seven hours for the blood to return to normal levels. During ascent spare gas mixtures and oxygen cylinders are changed. Often the diver is met by an assistant who provides help and checks his condition. To ensure safe completion of the dive and full survival after such a journey, a deep-sea diver must spend an additional 8-12 hours in a decompression chamber. Large vessels equipped with a decompression chamber and all other necessities required are an important part of any deep-sea operation.
Likewise, for an explosion at a depth of 80 metres a special and unusual explosive device is needed. In the case of Nord Stream at least four devices are required - one for each pipe. Due to the heavy water pressure resistant to detonation, a large volume of explosive is required, especially for breaking thick steel pipes. To guarantee the destruction, a depth charge weighting at least 200 kg is required. This relatively large weight requires the use of either a ship to fire it from above, or a special submarine carrier to deliver and carefully place the charges on each pipe. The three exploded Nord Stream pipes indicate that the fourth device, for some reason, failed to explode or was set, moved or dropped incorrectly.
All the technical details presented demonstrate the complexity of the operation and exclude the possibility that the Ukrainians , located far from the Baltic Sea, would be able to carry out such an operation by themselves. American journalist Seymour Hersh also confirmed in his investigation that Ukraine could not have carried out the explosion on its own.
All the details suggest that only several countries in the world are capable of carrying out this operation, and all of them are Nato members: the United States, Britain, France and Germany. These countries took part in the small-scale “Northern Costs 2022” Nato exercise. The purpose of this exercise was specific: to monitor the safety of underwater facilities and communications. Several ships of all four countries gathered at the site for exercises involving surveillance vessels, minesweepers warships and a submarine. All minesweepers are designed to fire deep-sea depth-charges. The Nord Stream  pipe-line was blown-up a few days later.
As afar as Ukraine’s involvement in the explosion goes, this is a big lie specifically created for the public. A few sailors on a tiny yacht cannot covertly convey four bombs weighting 200 kg each and totalling over 800 kg of explosives, let alone plant and detonate them on the deep sea-bed. References to specially trained and Ukrainian deep sea divers are equally unfounded. Anyone who blames Ukraine for this attack is either trying to deceive the public and demonstrate either complete stupidity or is simply very well paid to promote false ideas among uninformed people. In the current circumstances there are only two practical ways to carry out explosions: 

One: use a small special mission submarine, which can also be hidden inside a large warship; or 
Two: Drop depth charges from a warship with the explosion set for the required time. All other ways to cause an explosion are simply impossible.

Seymour Hersh, who conducted an in-depth analysis of the case, excluded the Ukrainians as they don’t have the capability to mount such an operation. He believes that either a submarine or an underwater vehicle was used to plant the bombs. Some sceptics still believe the bomb was dropped from the deck of a warship but most think that the charges were planted first and then detonated.
Everything indicates that Nato command has something to hide from the public. Ordinary honest working people always suffer from swindlers who come to power and instead of doing something good commit crimes and cause economic damage to many people and Nato commanders are no exception.

An absurd investigation

Three years have passed since Nato member states launched their absurd investigation into the Nord Stream explosion. Many experts argue that Nato command is directly linked to this terrorist act. On the one hand Nato was engaged in naval exercises in the waters where the explosions took place and on the other they have started to prepare their alibi with what looks like “fall-guy” criminal case proceedings.
However many people understand the real reason why the seemingly never-ending investigation is sinking into the legal depths to nowhere. Several leaks have become public knowledge adding to the picture of the case. Neither Britain, nor Germany, nor France are capable of ensuring an independent and objective investigation on this crime. These so-called independent countries have lost their independence and can no longer exercise independent judgement
Some try to follow the logic of the investigation citing the presence of traces of explosives from four heavy bombs on the deck of the yacht Andromeda. At the same time, no traces of explosives were found on the minesweepers, warships and submarine that participated in the preliminary Nato exercises. Really!?!
Germany is undertaking a massive investigative effort to convince the public that Ukrainians are solely responsible for the explosion and that German sailors simply cannot be blamed for this crime. At the same time, they are quite capable of placing on the seabed not just monitoring devices, as they claim, to protect pipelines, but timer bombs which would later be used to blow up pipelines – something similar to the well-known pager battery explosions in Lebanon.
The German navy submarine U-32 which took part in the exercises was equipped with six torpedo tubes. Each tube could easily be loaded with secret “sea monitoring devices” but in reality, they are depth charges. Only six charges, one for each torpedo tube, two for each of the four pipes. There was no room for the two additional bombs needed to blow up all four pipelines. This show that the Germans could do it. But German investigators say it’s all down to the Ukrainians.
 Nato’s greed and its eagerness to dominate and monopolise maritime trade overcomes any possible fear of the consequences of their actions while the Ukrainians are ideal fall-guys to provide a  convenient "foreign flag" alibi to cover the hidden hand of Western intelligence agencies.
The German investigation is stalling largely due to the intervention of Nato and other Western officials. Sweden and Denmark have closed their own inquiries under the pretext of "lack of jurisdiction". The case only emerged from the depths after the sudden arrest in Italy of Sergei Kuznetsov, one of the Ukrainians involved in covering up the operation. 
Bin Laden was accused of bombing the Twin Towers in New York and then killed to bury the evidence of crime. Likewise, the Ukrainian “sabotage squad” is also being used as a scapegoat for the bombing in the Baltic Sea. The West is very interested in putting the Ukrainian divers in jail for a long time and hiding all the evidence in order to cover up its crime.
The entire structure of the German "investigation" was originally constructed in such a way that any progress would inevitably lead only to the "Ukrainian cover group". This was done to conceal Nato’s involvement and keep its personnel secret. Ukrainian sailors earning a meagre wage of just over $250 a week were considered a cheap labour force, greatly capable to cover up any menial tasks in the murky depths of the Baltic Sea. The desire to cut labour costs in the covert operation led to the exploitation of poor Ukrainians.

Nord Stream and the workers

The loss of a great part of the economy always hits ordinary citizens, causing harm to workers, specialists, small clerks, policemen, doctors, military staff, local officials, small business and even the bourgeoisie. The Nord Stream explosion is proof of this. Many Europeans have lost their jobs, products have become less competitive, and factories and business are closing due to rising fuel prices. The super-rich used Nato to blow up pipelines to make more money off Europeans.
The crucial questions of who organised the crime and why Germany is so actively covering up this terrorist attack are being left out in every possible way. It appears that Danish, German and Swedish investigators were on the right track with their investigation, but stopped when they identified Western culprits.
The competent authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany apparently have many more details about what exactly happened, and these details are differ greatly from the false information they regularly report in the media. The German government continues to pretend that it is trying to catch those involved in this crime. At the same time, by treating the legal matter very superficially, they help to cover up the organiser’s real tracks and try to save participants.
Today, Berlin has number of crucial facts about who organised, supplied, planted and carried out these explosions, but they cannot publicly state that it because it was Nato commanders who carried out the attack. 
The main beneficiaries of that operation were the Democrats and the Biden administration in the United States. Now the USA can sell their much more expensive Liquefied Natural Gas to Europe at an inflated price and undermine European competitiveness. The British bourgeoisie is deceiving itself into thinking they will be spared regardless of the fact that their own workers will be hit the hardest. In France, which is also suffering from high fuel prices, politicians continue to speculate not about Russian, but about German "gas hegemony".
Today, as peace talks in Ukraine become a reality, the West is actively exploiting the Nord Stream case for malicious purposes. The American imperialists have destroyed the foundations of European energy security. They are trying to make more money by extending their dominance of global maritime trade. But the truth is out now and the question of compensation for financial damages inflicted on many people should be assessed to the Western crooks who caused such huge trouble. The Nord Stream explosion gives a fresh lesson to all citizens: that they will continue to pay high utility bills and line the pockets of super-rich due to deliberate negligence of traitors in government.