Russia has no incentive to sabotage a pipeline they can just shut down, unless it is a false flag to shift the blame. I feel in my gut that this is a white hat move to force the EU to face a very angry population. It could be the trigger for a mass exit of the EU. What can the EU do to prevent it? The sanctions on Russia are EU/NATO/US, correct?
This could quite easily be a black hat operation as well. I have no doubt that the US has submarine drones that it could have loaded with explosives and used as guided torpedoes.
Further, black hats have motive to do this. 1) they're climate crazies and true believers either that there's an actual crisis or believers in the global communist solution. 2) There's a lot of people sick of this stupid interventionism but in the US and in the EU. Framing Russia with a false flag allows them to rally hatred towards Russia and promote more endless war. The black hats are positioned to benefit from the economic misery (ideologically), the profits from the increased military spending, and in terms of expanding their power and control.
Regardless, all of this is just speculation without fact at this point. We will likely never get honest facts that tell the truth on this. The people who will be sent to do the repairs will either be on the saboteurs' team or supplied with a narrative that will become the official one.
Russia has no incentive to sabotage a pipeline they can just shut down, unless it is a false flag to shift the blame. I feel in my gut that this is a white hat move to force the EU to face a very angry population. It could be the trigger for a mass exit of the EU. What can the EU do to prevent it? The sanctions on Russia are EU/NATO/US, correct?
People may die this winter because of this. Killing innocent people is not a white hat move.
IMHO
More people will die if Europeans don't start putting pressure on their governments, but I understand your point. We don't get to know.
This could quite easily be a black hat operation as well. I have no doubt that the US has submarine drones that it could have loaded with explosives and used as guided torpedoes.
Further, black hats have motive to do this. 1) they're climate crazies and true believers either that there's an actual crisis or believers in the global communist solution. 2) There's a lot of people sick of this stupid interventionism but in the US and in the EU. Framing Russia with a false flag allows them to rally hatred towards Russia and promote more endless war. The black hats are positioned to benefit from the economic misery (ideologically), the profits from the increased military spending, and in terms of expanding their power and control.
Regardless, all of this is just speculation without fact at this point. We will likely never get honest facts that tell the truth on this. The people who will be sent to do the repairs will either be on the saboteurs' team or supplied with a narrative that will become the official one.
The problem I have with the white hat angle is that if true, it really makes our side no better than theirs.
War is war.