68 Replies to ““Tremendous Opportunity””

  1. Alternative view:

    China’s top energy firms are sending natural gas to European nations struggling with Russia’s supply cuts

    https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/china-energy-exports-natural-gas-crisis-eu-germany-russia-nations-2022-9

    Argument #1: China is taking advantage of a good business opportunity
    Argument #2: The US orchestrated the sabotage so that China could steal the market share with the help of a beholden Biden (who is in debt to China due to collusion with that country).

    1. I have to agree.
      Too much US Dollars printing presses have made inflation a worldwide problem as politicians laws are totally decimating it’s own productivity for a globalization fantasy that’s is currently in full failure mode.
      The Banking system is pumping up interest rates for the out of control spending that politicians have created.
      Death of the Dollar…Greenback…will be painful as it’s everywhere.

      The US government owes Trillion of dollars…

      1. Yes, the US owes trillions, and China holds a fair amount of it. But, there are many Turd world countries, that also have outstanding, US dollar based debt. With the rising US dollar, to levels not seen compared to the Euro, pound, Yen, etc, that many countries are on the verge of a currency crisis. Between exchange rate changes and higher interest rates, these countries can’t make payments.
        Sri Lanka, for example.
        We are at the cusp of a financial crisis. And China wants to dump US debt? Who is the buyer? Who is the greater fool?

  2. The United States isn’t supplying gas to Europe otherwise it would look bad. Are they?

      1. It would be good to see earlier data but the ENTSOG website data shows LNG imports to the EU were 17% of supply 4th Q 2021, 24% Q1 2022, 32% Q2 2022, and 35% Q3 2022. I’m guessing that capacity has been maxed out since the start of the Ukraine war. There’s a graph on the EIA website that shows LNG imports to north west Europe were over 100% of stated capacity for some months in the 1st half of 2022. Not impossible if the stated capacity is underrated.

  3. There’s little doubt this was done by the US. True there are pundits and their sycophants out there that twist themselves into logical knots to claim otherwise, but they had both motive and means, and on top of that there’s the evidence of their helicopters “patrolling” the pipeline routes off Borne Island in early September.

    1. When our brain damaged POTUS issues an uncompromising statement that Nordstream II will be ended … you just watch … we have ways. Why would anyone doubt that was a pre-admission of guilt? What? It’s just a “coincidence” that Pres. little-girl-groper was prescient? Ukrainian Puhleeze!?

      1. The helicopters were in a support function it looks like. Comms link to undersea operations. Recovery of submersible etc. When you look at the helicopter path it’s back and forth north south along the east pipeline where they split. This was September 2.

  4. Try and get anyone in mid-town Toronto to believe any of the following:

    Covid was man-made. It’s release may have been an accident, but everything afterwards was a deliberate attempt to introduce invasive command and control measures.

    Joe Biden and his son were involved – along with many others, including a bunch of Republicans I’m sure – in the looting of Ukraine long before this war. Biden is on videotape boasting about forcing the removal of a Ukranian prosecutor who was digging into Hunter Biden’s doings, by threatening to withhold billions in foreign aid.

    The US neo-cons are still fighting a cold war against a communist enemy that disappeared 30 years ago. They fomented the war in Ukraine, they supplied and expanded it, and now they’re committing acts of environmental and financial terrorism, and threatening the world with nuclear war.

    All of the above are clear to anyone who can remember anything for more than 6.9 minutes. That leaves out virtually all of the mid-town virtue signallers.

    2. You talkin’ about Badwulf’s “City Of Light” which I believe is the monicker for Paris, France NOT TORONTO.

      Toronto City Of The Lobotomized.

    3. KevinB:

      Nice to hear from you again.
      100% correct.
      But do you keep trying?
      I have more or less stopped due to a critical deficit in the friend pool.
      You?

    4. Hope you include Garth Turner in that assessment.
      He puts the PROGRESSIVE in progressive “conservative”.
      Despite having halfways fair financial advice, everything else he prints and states at his blog, is straight out of the Liberal Party manifesto, along with his “advisors”. Have to hold my nose reading the columns, sorting out the 90% lefty liberal view of the world for nuggets of financial commentary.
      What’s in the drinking water in Cheranna, to turn its citizens so blasé, naive and ill-informed?

  5. This guy thinks it was sloppy maintenance, not sabotage. I know absolutely nothing about pipelines, undersea or otherwise, but in this case I fervently wish this to be correct. Does he make a good argument?

    https://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordstream.html

    Read the whole thing and then the comments and be even more confused. Everybody thinks they’re an expert.

    “But, LawDog,” I hear you say, “It was multiple explosions!”

    “Yes, 17 hours apart. No military is going to arrange for two pipes in the same general area to be destroyed 17 hours apart. Not without some Spec Ops guy having a fit of apoplexy. One pipe goes up in a busy shipping lane, in a busy sea, and everyone takes notice. Then you wait 17 hours to do the second — with 17 hours for people to show up and catch you running dirty? Nah, not buying it.

    “The Nord pipelines weren’t in use. To me, that means it’s time for maintenance! Hard to maintain pipes when product is flowing.

    “Pipelines running methane, under saltwater, require PMCS* quicker than you’d think, and more often than you’d believe.

    “I would bet a cup of coffee that any of the required weekly and monthly checks and services since the Russians took over have been pencil-whipped. (See Andreev Bay 1982.)”

    1. Yeah … just another coincidence of epic (COVID) proportions. Puhleeze. Maintenance my ass. Wet Market, my ass. Spontaneously mutated bat virus, my ass.

      If you also believe there won’t be a Russian retaliation … just because it hasn’t happened yet … you’re similarly deluded.

      I honestly respect your work … but all you energy system maintenance engineers are seeing this incident through the curved lens of your personal bias. I get it … but this “incident” has all the earmarks of a deliberate act of sabotage. And I don’t believe in geo-political-military coincidences

    2. Good Finn
      I read that yesterday, and the guy is an idiot. The one line had not even been commissioned, the Germans were holding back because of the war.

      1. Dang! I was really hoping those “armchair pipeline specialists” might be correct about it being maintenance, not deliberate sabotage.

    3. The guy is an idiot.
      – Hydrates are not a problem with dehydrated gas in transportation lines like they are in wet gas gathering lines.
      – The line was shut down and one wasn’t even fully commissioned. You wouldn’t know that there was any type of blockage unless you tried to flow the line.
      – Hydrates are dealt with by first reducing pressure, then injecting methanol and pushing a pig. The response of a hydrate plug is pretty trivial to calculate.
      – Pipelines like these are tested to 1.5X the maximum operating or maximum design pressure for 8 hours prior to going into service. There is a design and corrosion allowance on top of that. There is no way the dissolution of a hydrate plug exceeds line burst pressure unless someone did something so stupid as to be deliberate, and probably not even then.

      1. Fraizer; If your point is, hydrate plugs are unlikely in the pipeline, I would agree, if the proper operating conditions were present. But:
        – We don’t know how dry the gas in the pipeline was.

        – hydrates have occurred in supposedly dry gas pipelines.
        reference this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254519844_Hydrates_Blockage_Experience_in_a_Deep_Water_Subsea_Dry_Gas_Pipeline_Lessons_Learned
        This paper relates a hydrates blockage incident which occurred in January 2007 on a deepwater dry gas pipeline.
        Yes the Nord Stream gas will/should be dryer than the above incident.

        As a vertically integrated electricity and natural gas utility, Manitoba Hydro (MH) owns and operates the
        transmission and distribution network for approximately 260,000 natural gas consumers. … MH has also
        experienced instances of increased moisture content in the gas supplied by TCPL, which has necessitated
        manual intervention to prevent internal freeze-off at its facilities.
        i.e. MH experienced hydrate problems with the “dry” gas supplied by TCPL.

        – Nord Stream 1 line shut down after significant periods of reduced flow. Water can collect in low spots especially with lower flow rates.
        – Nord Stream 2 line was not fully commissioned. It had been displaced to gas, but there probably was water in some of the low spots of the line.

        – when you reduce pressure so the hydrate disperses, you must do so carefully. otherwise a hydrate plug can come shooting up the pipe ( in the case of a well), or along the pipe (on a pipeline). A plug moving in a 48″ pipeline would have a lot of energy.

        Next step has to be a visual inspection by ROV of the four pipeline leaks.

    4. It’s a new pipeline. It was built by a consortium, not THE RUSSIANS!!!!!!

      Gasprom had valves to turn the pipeline off, and on. Pretty basic pipeline infrastructure. It’s all they had to do.

      It stretches credibility, all the pretzel logic, to blame the Russians. Especially with POTUS Pampers February declaration, in no uncertain terms, as well as neo-con plutocrat Nuland’s statements. Leaves no doubt who benefits from this sabotage.

    5. Finn, re “17 hours apart”, I have no clue who did it, only suspicions. I’m sure it was either a country or very big money with access to a Sub! I’m wondering how long it would take, to travel between the two areas of damaged pipes, if you only had one very covert Sub sneaking around the area! If I had to make a guess, it would be China, as they would benefit the most from this. Any “entity” actually seen in the area, such as Russian and US ships, would be very foolish to commit such an act.

  6. The US could have done it. They had the means, motives, and ships in the area. Plus Biden’s threats. None of these are proof.

    Russia could have sabotaged it. They have the means, and their ships have been seen in the area. They’ve also sent small subs on various missions into shallow waters all over the Baltic.

    Russia’s motive? to put pressure on Germany and the countries blocking Russian land pipelines into supporting a peace deal preserving Russian gains in Ukraine. And/or to bolster Russian troops and public opinion; we’re now protecting Mother Russia. See the NATO attacks on us.

    Germany could have done it. Means, yes. Ships in area, yes. Motive? To accelerate the green transition.

    Similarly, Poland. But their motive? Deny income to Russia.

    Could it be hydrates. Yes. I’ve managed many onshore and offshore gas fields. Hydrates are a very real issue, and great care must be taken when trying to remove them. Is this proof of hydrates? No.

    Next step has to be underwater examination by ROV of the four pipeline leak sites.

    1. joe
      You forgot Blackrock/Vanguard who make huge $$$$$$ from the MIC, as they supply the war effort on tax $$$$$. And Blackrock is all in for the great reset.

    2. Yeah, sure. Russia would proactively destroy their leverage over all of Western Europe; and simultaneously remove a major source of income to fund the war.

      Smoke ’em if you got ’em.

  7. Always with the “opportunity” for these people. Trudeau and Freeland with their pandemic/great reset opportunity now funeral director Blinken and his Russian gas dependence/opportunity remark. They’re like grease ball salesmen trying to sell us timeshares.
    Considering winter is just around the corner… just as callous.

  9. I think the Globalists want Putin to start a nuclear war so they can usher in their nightmare hegemony. A tremendous opportunity! Who blew up the Nordstream Franz Ferdinand Pipeline?

    2. Sure. What a logical way to enjoy the benefits of wealth and power? Spending a month underground returning to a world where nearly all their assets are ash and in America, the blue sections are dead.

  10. Is Blinken Quiet Bragging Biden did it?

    Or is he just an Incompetent Freaking Tone Deaf Diplomat?
    (Blinken has worked for Tapioca Joe Biden for decades after all.)

    I really don’t want to think we did it. But I think we (81 Million Votes Biden and Company) did it.

    1. Of course the US did it, only SUB86ers believe otherwise.
      Means and motive. Germany was going to go begging, hat in hand, to Russia, to secure more gas. That can not be permitted to happen. F the people is the order of the day.

      1. Yes (“Germany was going to go begging”), and that blew my prediction out of the water (that the war would be over by November because the Germans don’t like being cold). The Germans had hat in hand. The Russians would have agreed to turn on the gas (with a smile). Either Ukraine or America made the accident happen. Ukraine would keep the EU in the war and America would keep Germany from surrendering to Russia. I salute your comment.

    2. I find it incredulous that some adult version of the kid who peed himself in the 3rd grade … is now running American foreign policy.

      1. Well then, check out Kamala (Kneepads) Harris, and be really astounded.

        She just announced a secret partnership between the US and North Korea that NO ONE knows about.

  13. Anybody looking into the possibility it was Muslim extremists who blew up the pipelines?

  15. Could it just be a way for NATO to insert themselves into the war. To retaliate against the “sabotage” , as they have threatened to do!

    1. Good comments GYM / NME666.

      In fact NATO is doing just that as we speak.
      It’s all so laughably transparent nowadaze.

  16. “Never let a crisis go to waste.” What you are all missing here is, who benefitsfrom this? There are only a handful of countries that could accomplish this type of operation. France, Germany, Britain, in spite of the comments here that these countries want to use the crisis to implement there green program, all three countries know that the green plan is untenable and would cause massive riots when the temperatures drop this winter. So rule out Western Europe as the protaganists here. Russia is dependent on Western European finances to aid the Russian war effort, so Putin did not turn off the taps nor did he blow up the pipeline. The Democrats in America would have to be absolutely insane to actually fulfill the veiled threat issue by Biden, retailiation by Russia would start WWIII. Now we come to China, should a major conflict erupt in Europe over this then China has free access to take over Taiwan. America does not have the where-with-all to conduct a two front war on opposite sides of the globe. In the race to be Numero Uno in world power, China would be the ultimate winner if the other two super powers decide to go at it head to head. Right out of Sun Tzu, “When your enemy is destroying himself” what better solution than when both your enemies are destroying each other.

    1. “…Democrats in America would have to be absolutely insane …”

      Well there you go. Kinda the definition of a dimocrap these days.

    2. “Only a handful of countries…..”

      Oh rubbish!
      Every country with offshore oil and gas has the kind of submersible that can get to the pipelined.
      The kind of weapon than can punch through 40mm steel is owned by every mikitary tgat have ever considered fighting against an enemy that has tanks.

      Timer plus high-pressure casing, and you are good to go.

    3. Russia is so “dependent” on European money that Putin is threatening to turn off the Ukraine pipeline – which the Ukrainians have kept open – rather than pay Ukraine contracted fees that Gazprom owes them.

      Don’t confuse the interests of Putin with those of the Russian people.

  17. Obviously the US “did it”.
    Let’s remember that the who of whodunnit need not have actually, physically performed the task.

    I mean, some people think this is a Ukraine-Russia war!!

    Pepe Escobar has a good piece up at LouRockwell on the likely co-conspirators under US direction.

  18. Rain is a tremendous opportunity for me to plant crops.
    Anyone who thinks I made it rain is gullible as hell.

    This is Biden Inc. talking.
    You know that you can’t trust them, EVER.
    So trusting them when they say “It’s sabotage”, but not when they say “We didn’t do it” is just you being inconsistent and judging their statements according to what you want to be true.
    Which makes you as bad as them.

    They will say what they THINK is in their own interests.
    That may tell you a lot about Biden Inc., but nothing about what destroyed the pipelines.

    1. 1. Biden isn’t the only one saying “its sabotage.”
      2. You do nothing but obfuscate, and are full of it.
      3. You say “any nation with offshore oil could do this.” because you don’t have a clue as to what it takes to do this. It takes depth charges or torpedoes, things you no doubt know nothing about.
      4. Means, motive and opportunity. Only one player in that theater has all three, no matter what kind of pretzel-logic you come up with.
      5. The world knows that the USA/NATO did it, you know it, I know it, they know it, but it won’t stop the WEF crowd from destroying the west, and blaming whoever you might swallow as the perp. In your case, I’m guessing Russia or China.
      6. F.O.

  19. Membership has its privileges: 2 weeks to flatten the thermostat.

  20. It is a tremendous opportunity. It is not an admission of guilt. Those are two different things.

  21. Tens of thousands of Western Europeans freezing to death is a Tremendous Opportunity; or What are Allies For?

    A dialogue inside the Biden administration along the lines of, “Western Europe must be sacrificed to keep the US safe for Marxism,” is pretty believable.

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