Great Britain and the USA are considering staging new attacks on critical undersea infrastructure reminiscent of the Nord Stream pipelines bombing, Nikolay Patrushev, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has said.
Patrushev, who led Russia’s Security Council for over a decade before assuming his new role this year, made the remarks in an interview with the Kommersant daily published on Monday.
According to available information, the Americans and the British are viewing the sabotage on the Nord Stream pipelines as one of many methods to advance their economic interests.
They could attack other infrastructure facilities, including undersea fiber optic cables that provide communications throughout the world.
The Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were built under the Baltic Sea to deliver Russian natural gas directly to Germany.
Both were destroyed by underwater explosions in September 2022. A number of Western media outlets later claimed that a six-strong crew of Ukrainian divers on a small yacht had planted the explosive devices that ruptured the pipelines.
Anyone interested in the capabilities of foreign naval forces knows that the Ukrainian Navy has neither the equipment nor the trained specialists to carry out a deep-sea terrorist attack.
Only special forces of NATO countries could carry out a sabotage of such scale, he said, adding that it is known for certain the USA and Britain both possess such capabilities.
The ultimate goal of the Nord Stream bombing – as well as of the alleged potential new attacks – is to sow chaos and destabilization worldwide.
Since the hegemony of the West began to falter, Washington decided to bring chaos to the energy market, including by destabilizing maritime transportation.
Patrushev pointed to the US campaign against the Yemen based Houthi group, which he said is officially designed to protect maritime traffic, but in reality serves as a smokescreen for plans to spark an escalation in the region.
Destabilization is needed to put pressure on major consumers, including China and India, and to lay a foundation for grabbing more of the global energy market.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Have the west forgotten that Russia has a monster sub out there “somewhere” with nuclear torpedoes armed with 50KT nuclear warheads, designed to sink entire fleets, or create tsunami’s ? Russia has the most advanced space assets so they could neutralize the entire western communication system which btw is NOT hardened against EMP (Unlike Russia and China’s grid). Everyone by now should be well aware that the west is a “paper tiger” all bluster and propaganda but nothing it can actually use or do. The west is finished and now, all the west talks about is committing acts of terrorism… Read more »
The issue that we have in the world today is that all these imperialist lunatics still live in the world of Mackinder, Spykman and Brzezinski. They don’t have the intellect or the education to even comprehend the scale and the dynamic of changes happening around them, which is why delusional Britain seriously believes that it presents some kind of serious competition to China and can still use its army and navy to contain both Russia and China
Long before China reached its current military size.. I believe back in 2015, there was an exercise to determine how the US would fare in a conflict against China. The exercise assumed Chinese pilots and operators were far inferior to the USA, and despite that, the USA lost dramatically simply due to attrition. Today, China has far exceeded America in pretty much everything technological, and the size of their military has only grown. They are not going to be bullied by imperialists ever again.
When are these US UK retards going to read the tea leaves. Their military technology base that underpins their perceived power is proving to be a total flop in the current conflicts in Ukraine and Israel. They are well off the pace. And they want to pick a fight with a country that has proven its superiority with hyper sonic missile technology and that also has a large stash of nuclear war heads to fit on said missiles.
London-based insurance companies profit from it! Conflicts and wars are good for the financial sector of the UK and the Military Industrial Complex of the US. Does the BRICS+ have a befitting reply and countermeasures to this bullying
Let’s not beat around the bush. Let’s declare WW3 and be done with it because there are too many politicians who think they can force regime change and get a country to fight a proxy war on their behalf. They think they are making political decisions for their country but are actually behaving like terrorists or criminals. Look at the use of Iraq as a U.S. proxy. The U.S. armed and directed Saddam Hussein and Iraq to fight Iran with devastating human losses. The U.S. armed and controlled Osama Bin Laden and the Muhajadeen in Afghanistan against the Russian presence… Read more »