According to @SecBlinken, the Nord Stream pipeline bombing "offers tremendous strategic opportunity for the years to come." Too bad that this tremendous opportunity for DC bureaucrats will come at the expense of everyone else, especially this coming winter. pic.twitter.com/T2eacQUuBF
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) October 1, 2022
Zero Hedge: Blinken Calls Sabotage Attacks On Nord Stream Pipelines A "Tremendous Opportunity"
Ever since the recent unprecedented sabotage attacks on the Russia to Europe Nord Stream pipelines, the central question has continued to remain who did it and correspondingly cui bono?
Just when speculation and an avalanche of theories have inundated the web on an array of international outlets, the Biden administration has bluntly (and apparently lacking self-awareness) boasted that the pipeline bombings present an "opportunity".
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a Friday joint press briefing with Canada's top diplomat that the damage and disruption to the pipelines are being seen in Washington as a "tremendous opportunity" to greatly reduce European energy imports on Russia.
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WNU Editor: The Nord Stream pipelines took Russia years to build at a cost above $10 billion, but done so with the expectation that over it life time would generate almost a trillion in revenues to the Russian state while providing Germany a safe, affordable, and secure supply of energy.
A win-win for both Germany and Russia if there ever was one.
That is why the current Western narrative of blaming Russia for destroying its own project is infuriating most if not all Russians. Doubly so when most Russians are convinced that it was the US who carried out this attack.
And now US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is publicly gloating that Germany will need to purchase its energy from alternative sources, albeit at an extraordinary high price and with no guarantee of a stable supply.
Wow!
I thought I would never see the day of the U.S. opening saying the suffering of one of its major allies is an opportunity. In the past the US wanted its allies to be as strong as possible because they understand mutual prosperity would benefit everyone while enhancing security. No more now.
The full press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is below: